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I have wondered about this. How many WW's have there been in recorded history? Let's see there are the 1st and 2nd that we all know about. And what about the war against terrorism? The whole world is pretty much involved. That could just as well be a 3rd WW. I just want to know what you think about this.

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Then there was one fought over Canada' date=' so thats up to 4. Probably the crusades, thats 5,6,7 and maybe a few more.

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When? Good idea, the crusades were global at the time in the sense that almost the whole known world was involved.

 

We're probably on World War XCI! Who knows' date=' the world is constantly at war anyway...

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You're right, but not all countries are involved at the same time.

 

We've only had 2 registered world wars.

 

But as far as moral standards go; there's no telling. It depends on what you consider to be a war' date=' and what kind of percentage of countries you consider to be global. etc...

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For me, global is at least 30%. Might not sound like much, but still...

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We're probably on World War XCI! Who knows' date=' the world is constantly at war anyway...

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You're right, but not all countries are involved at the same time.

 

We're all other countries involved in the previous wold wars? I don't think so.

 

Well sorry.

 

Not all the countries have been involved in any war. And people fought over Canada in abut the 1600's?

 

I know that. And who fought over Canada? England and France?

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We're probably on World War XCI! Who knows' date=' the world is constantly at war anyway...

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You're right, but not all countries are involved at the same time.

 

We're all other countries involved in the previous wold wars? I don't think so.

 

Well sorry.

 

Not all the countries have been involved in any war. And people fought over Canada in abut the 1600's?

 

I know that. And who fought over Canada? England and France?

 

England France, there allies.. Those countries occupied a large part of the world back then!

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Since humans have had weapons we have fought. I guess either there have been 1 because time is only one big war or, to many to count on 1 hand. The 2 WW are only new wars, although, I haven't heard of too many wars that involve most of the world. The Romans sort of invaded every were that was know to Europeans for thousands of years.

 

The WWI and WWII didn't involve everywhere, but most places.

 

There are many wars going on now. In Africa and in the Middle-East.

 

The crusades were big, and so was Alexander the Great, but not enormous.

 

There is my 2 cents, try to make sense of it.

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I have wondered about this. How many WW's have there been in recorded history? Let's see there are the 1st and 2nd that we all know about. And what about the war against terrorism? The whole world is pretty much involved. That could just as well be a 3rd WW. I just want to know what you think about this.

You are exactly right. There has been 2 world wars and if we are not careful, we could start a third!

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I have wondered about this. How many WW's have there been in recorded history? Let's see there are the 1st and 2nd that we all know about. And what about the war against terrorism? The whole world is pretty much involved. That could just as well be a 3rd WW. I just want to know what you think about this.

You are exactly right. There has been 2 world wars and if we are not careful' date=' we could start a third!

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War on terror IS the 3rd in my opinion.

 

Right' date=' so when the Romans were taking over the world, that wasn't a 'World War' was it? It was >.<

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Not really...

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Right' date=' so when the Romans were taking over the world, that wasn't a 'World War' was it? It was >.<

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Not really...

 

Ya it was. They invaded all of the known world.

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So; This is basically a tally on to how many World War's there's been?

 

Wow. What a debate.

 

By the way, disregarding times before the term "World War" was coined; there's been two. Unless a war is distinguished publicly as a 'World War', it isn't in fact a 'World War'.

 

Basically, in my opinion, there's an obvious difference between a War of a worldly nature, and an actual World War.

 

=).

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10-15 countries? All of the countries affected by the war are the ones in the Middle East. Look, while my dad was in Afghanistan the last time, he said that the only people fighting were us Americans. In fact, a team which he deployed was having an 8 HOUR long firefight with insurgents. The Polish Brigade was 9 blocks away, but they didn't do anything because it interfered with NATO rules. If you ask me, the only ones being affected by this war are the ones in the Middle East and America. The NATO rules don't allow NATO countries to attack any insurgents, America is the only country doing anything. That isn't a world war, besides, 10-15 countries out of over a hundred is nothing.

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