Have there ever been any wars started by, or engaged in by the United Kingdom?
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Yes. The UK, and England before that, is possibly the most warlike nation in history.\n\nFar, far too many to list here. Take a look at these sites:\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_English_wars - Wars of England. (pre-1707)\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Wars_of_Great_Britain - Wars of Great Britain (1707-1800)\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Wars_of_the_United_Kingdom - Wars of the UK (1800-present)
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What exactly do you mean by involved?\nA country that has never been an active combatant (sent troops into battle) in a war?\nOr a country that has never been invaded during wartime?\nThat would be a pretty short list.\n\nBecause even in the South Pacific, the islands were occupied by Japanese and US forces during WW II.
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Yes, but we hope and pray this may not happen.\nWorld wars or even major wars started with some of the ff. sequences: prejudice, bigotry, greed, social divisiveness, an upsurge of national or patriotic fervor, then internal political upheavals, war pacts and peace agreements, military buildup/escalation, interior cultural or ethnic clashes, economic blockade, consular debacles, political/electoral intervention, military intervention (training, advisers, military hardware, support), an open war, multi-theater wars, one, two thermal bombs...
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Your question is somewhat vague. But i'll take a stab at it. Military wars (if I understand what you are asking) could be exemplified by World War I and World War II or Vietnam or the Gulf War or the War of 1812 or the Napoleonic conflicts. I suppose you could best describe "military wars" as "wars of conquest."  However, that being said, one could identify "colonial wars" as "wars of conquest" as well I suppose. Nevertheless, that being said, colonial wars might be exemplified by the French and Indian Wars, the American Revolution, the Boar War (perhaps titled wrong), colonial wars occurred often in Africa. \n\nDoes that answer your question?
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the reason why europe has been starting world wars is that they were the most advanced countries in the past and moreover europe being a congested continent with the countries so close to each other, they always had an issue with each other and with so many of them involved things used to become very tricky.\n\nanyways i think that the third world war would  not be started by europe.  it would most probably start from asia with the US playing a key role(not in positive sense)
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Overall this war was casued due to the economic policies of the British Empire.  \n\nThere are also political causes such as the feelings of a lack of political representation within the English Empire, which then resulted in the above said economic policies.  This argument would be disputed by historical materialists.
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You are going to have to restate your question.  And which civil war are you talking about?  There have been many (not everyone on this service will assume that you are talking about the War of the Roses, like I am).
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This summer, the Irish Republican Army promised to stop having violent confrontations with the United Kingdom.\n\nThis past spring, terrorists bombed some subways and a bus.
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A war is a prolonged engagement between two military powers.  For example, I consider Vietnam a war because the US and the South Vietnamese militaries were fighting the Vietcong and the North Vietnamese militaries.  Same with the current Iraq War, two forces, prolonged engagement.  An example for a conflict is the Somalia incident back in 1991 (remember Blackhawk Down?)  Warlords over threw Somalia's government and the US and allies went in for humanitarian aid.  It was a reletively short engagement, making it a conflict.  Thats how I define wars from conflicts, but I suppose the official way is whether or not Congress declares war. (If they do, its a war.  if not, its a conflict)
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http://www.hslda.org/hs/international/UnitedKingdom/default.asp
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The shortest war on record took place\nin 1896 when Zanzibar surrendered to Britain after 38 minutes.
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Throughout the world and history there has always been a clash between two opposing factions.  The radical involvement of Gorilla Warfare and Terrorism is an offshoot of these actions.  Look at specific clashes to see them.  Northern Ireland's primary conflict involves Religion between the Roman Catholics and the Protestants.  You have the clashes in the middle east in Palestine, Israel and the like over land claims.  If Hitler had succeeded it would have been a short lived victory as the nations of the Allies would have revamped and taken another run at him.  Could it have been possible that the US bomb Germany with an Atomic Bomb rather than Japan?  The ramifications would have been astounding!
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they r not just against the US but also the UK, have u seen the bombings in london?
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maybe something abut how they are still at war and there have been many minor skirmishes or incidence over the years, there was a great program on the history channel about that, alot of stuff I didn't know.  sorry I don't remember the name of it.
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No it is not.  For example:\n\nThe Greek Wars between city states.\nThe Punic Wars\nThe American Indian Wars (most of the tribes involved had some form of democratic government)\nThe Franco American War, circa 1795\nThe Spanish-American War\nThe Anglo-Bohr War in South Africa \nThe First World War\nThe First Indio-Pakisatani war\n\nDoes that help?
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Was there ever no civil war there?
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which war are you referring to?\nthere's no THE Persian War, as far as i know.