Fantasy writing & worldbuilding: How to start a war? 

Which one of these reasons have you used for war?

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I really enjoyed your choices on historical events. Some I knew others I never heard of. So it gave a different perspective that most don't talk about.

i have a global religious war,your video helped me put that more into perspective,Thank you!Keep them coming!

I agree that the subject of war is a very extensive topic that probably should Merit its own miniseries. I am just thankful to hear how was even start in the first place because that is definitely something of contention even among historians. Thank you for this very valuable content!

Thanks for another interesting presentation. Some thoughts: Thucydides said that men go to war because of honor/pride (Trojan War - Helen of Troy), greed, or fear. "An accident waiting for a place to happen." Michael Yon says amateurs talk about what sparked a war, professionals talk about the conditions that allowed a spark to burn out of control. His viewpoint is about predicting upcoming wars. Don't look at what could trigger a war, look at places where conditions are ripe for a war. He also says that pandemic, famine, war, cause each other in a vicious cycle. He's of course thinking about the near future. Search RU-vid for his interview with Jordan Peterson. On defensive wars, that's Peter Zeihan's thesis on Russia's actions. He says Russia has indefensible borders (no mountain ranges, deserts, seas) and are driven to reacquire the old USSR borders to feel secure. Search RU-vid for his many presentations on Russia (he is a consultant and makes many presentations every month, so his RU-vid videos are repetitive but slowly evolve over the months). The inciting incident for a war, the official reason a war is declared, is called the casus belli. A classic casus belli is a blockade. But many people think a blockade is relatively benign. In Star Wars Episode 1, someone says he doesn't know why the Jedi are getting involved in Naboo, it's just a blockade. Dude, a blockade is standard casus belli which is why JFK was careful to call his blockade of Cuba a quarantine and not a blockade because he didn't want to start a war. A political commentator recently said that China could interfere with Taiwan without going to war e.g. with a naval blockade. Dude... Another theory is Donald Rumsfeld's (and others') weakness is provocative. If a war breaks out it is because deterrence has failed (if your enemy thinks he can't defeat you, he won't start a war). Or what the Roman Vegetius said, If you want peace prepare for war. Related is "You may not be interested in war, but war is interested in you" often attributed to Trotsky. See Quote Investigator for an investigation on the origins.

Thanks for making this! Trying to use all sources I can to make a realistic and compelling reason(s) for a war to start, so this is helpful.

I think Matt Colville had a very interesting thought about writing war in that he said if there was peace, that someone was working hard for it to exist, because in the past there wasn't really a time when so many countries as now weren't at war. So, if war started, that someone must not be there anymore to negotiate and manipulate peace into existing.

Would love a "doing war" and a "ending war" video

very cool video

When you mention the hensatic league what if there was another version of them and they went to war with each other

This was a very insightful video!! And I would like to add something about territory expansion wars (on the Roman case), and it is that sometimes those wars were fueled by a desire of a general to gain prestige on the Roman sociaty, so that he would be able to get into politics later (kind of like our modern politics saying things like "I made 2.000 houeses for the poor" type of thing, but the Roman one was bit more bloody). So, if you happen to have a belicist society, you should consider if victory over the battlefield can be seen as something which would aid a politician carrear, and if it does, which objectives would be searched for.

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Amazing I have a bunch of conflits and wars throw out My world, they migth get on the way of the players on dnd campains i Run on the world, This would help me a lot to know why the wars.

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