*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l554kV12Wuo Prisoners In Finland Live In Open Prisons Where They Learn Tech Skills]
*[[Essay: An observation about the countries that handled the coronavirus pandemic well so far. And let's look at Finland.|An observation about the countries that handled the coronavirus pandemic well so far. And let's look at Finland.]]
== Military, wars and mass murder ==
[[File:WWII collage.JPG|thumbnail|right|300px|[[WWII]] photo montage]]
"The level of war in the world seems to have risen to 1989 (post-WWII) peak levels and holding, ending the pacific 1989-2006 era. Does this contradict the Decline of Violence (Pinker) / End of History ([[Francis Fukuyama|Fukuyama]]) theses, or is it just a blip?". - Professor [[Eric Kaufmann]], Twitter/X.[https://twitter.com/epkaufm/status/1744338524994748831], See: [https://ourworldindata.org/war-and-peace War and Peace].
=== How long do wars last? ===
Wars start out as wars of maneuver. If a war a war of maneuver doesn't achieve victory in 6 months, then it most cases it turns into a war of attrition (Wars of attrition are more common than insurgencies after a war).[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z6F7yqIMRdI]
Wars are ended by removing an enemies will to fight and/or ability to fight (Productive capacity)[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z6F7yqIMRdI]
*"Supreme excellence consists of breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting." - [[Sun Tzu]]
*"What is essential in war is victory, not prolonged operations." - Sun Tzu
*"There is no instance of a country having benefited from prolonged warfare." - Sun Tzu
'''How long do post WWII wars last? Some statistics:'''
[[Georgetown University]]'s Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) is a [[bipartisan]], nonprofit policy research organization & think tank analyzing global issues.
The Center for Strategic and International Studies article ''How Does It End? What Past Wars Tell Us about How to Save Ukraine''
{{Cquote|Analyzing data compiled by the Uppsala Conflict Data Program (UCDP) on conflict termination since 1946, 26 percent of interstate wars like Ukraine end in less than 30 days and another 25 percent end in less than a year. Wars that end within a month last on average eight days, and 44 percent end in a ceasefire or peace agreement. Of wars that last over a month but less than a year, only 24 percent end in a ceasefire. When interstate wars last longer than a year, they extend to over a decade on average, resulting in sporadic clashes.<ref>[https://www.csis.org/analysis/how-does-it-end-what-past-wars-tell-us-about-how-save-ukraine#:~:text=Wars%20that%20end%20within%20a,average%2C%20resulting%20in%20sporadic%20clashes. How Does It End? What Past Wars Tell Us about How to Save Ukraine], 2022, Center for Strategic and International Studies website </ref>}}
[[File:Georgetown 2.jpg|thumbnail|center|300px|[[Georgetown University]]'s Center for Strategic and International Studies indicates that most wars lasting over a year extend to over a decade on average, resulting in sporadic clashes.<ref>[https://www.csis.org/analysis/how-does-it-end-what-past-wars-tell-us-about-how-save-ukraine#:~:text=Wars%20that%20end%20within%20a,average%2C%20resulting%20in%20sporadic%20clashes. How Does It End? What Past Wars Tell Us about How to Save Ukraine], 2022, Center for Strategic and International Studies website </ref>]]
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=== Just war vs. realist view of war ===
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=takl4fei1pQ War and International Politics ], John Mearsheimer (He discusses realist view of war vs. Just War doctrine of war)
=== Winning the peace vs. winning a war ===
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wdo5VRuZd5k How Not to Win the War, but the Peace - Stephen Kotkin]
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z9ICLTWy-xg Stephen Kotkin: Winning the peace vs. winning a war] - short version
=== Military ===
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pxrfxN99snM US Army fails to meet annual recruitment target, again]
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tscfH9EAIkU US Military's Biggest Recruiting Crisis Is Here]
=== Wars and warlike natures ===
'''Studies:'''
*[https://www.caltech.edu/about/news/democracies-more-prone-start-wars-except-when-theyre-not-82879 Democracies More Prone to Start Wars – Except When They're Not]
==== Democratic peace theory and related matters ====
*[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_peace_theory Democratic peace theory]
=== Mass murder ===
*[[Atheism and Mass Murder|Atheism and mass murder]]
*[https://www.conservapedia.com/Atheism_and_Mass_Murder#Explanatory_links_between_atheism_and_mass_murder Godless leftists with utopian visons are more mass murder prone than godless libertarians]
=== Right-wing death squads vs. Left-wing murderous regimes ===
*[https://voxday.net/2023/11/09/do-they-want-right-wing-death-squads/ Do they want right-wing death squads]
=== Military concepts ===
*[[Sun Tzu]]
*[[Sun Tzu quotes]]
*[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_warfare Political warfare]
*[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fifth-generation_warfare Fifth-generation warfare]
*[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asymmetric_warfare Asymmetric warfare]
*[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irregular_warfare Irregular warfare]
*[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawfare Lawfare]
*[[Carl von Clausewitz]]
*[[List of military strategies and concepts]]
*[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourth-generation_warfare Fourth generation warfare]
=== Military competence and incompetence ===
==== Military competence ====
*Deliberate Discomfort: How U.S. Special Operations Forces Overcome Fear and Dare to Win by Getting Comfortable Being Uncomfortable by Jason B.A. Van Camp and Andy Symonds. Ballast Books (February 18, 2020)
==== Military incompetence ====
*On the Psychology of Military Incompetence by Norman F Dixon. Basic Books; Illustrated edition (May 31, 2016)
*Military Incompetence: Why the American Military Doesn't Win (American Century) by Richard A. Gabriel. Hill & Wang Pub; First Edition (January 1, 1985)
== Negative effects of wars. Frequency and magnitude of wars from 1946 to 2017 ==
[[File:Sun Tzu portrait.jpg|thumbnail|right|250px|"There is no instance of a country having benefited from prolonged warfare." - [[Sun Tzu]] ]]