Ask HN: Why must there be war?

Because the regime demands it. I believe it should be possible to live without wars. That makes me a member of a small and shrinking minority.

Because territories must be defended.

There's so many of us

War is a racket: https://ratical.org/ratville/CAH/warisaracket.html

Let us digress a moment and ask, by what do you mean “war”? In our time, we may cite so many unlawful conflicts.

Of unlawful warfare, what may be said of the other side?

Life feeds upon life.

Power is savage.

War is a savage writ. The last recourse before subjugation. Where law fails and tenacity of wills prevail.

The question should be, what is lawful warfare?

Or at what point do we call a circumstance war? When bullets fly or when law of domain becomes contested among bodies of power?