Pakistan Defence

Here is a list of the largest wars fought in all history:

These are the top 20, listed in order by the number of casualties.

• 60,669,200-84,589,300 – World War II (1939–1945), (see World War II casualties)
• 30,000,000–60,000,000 – Mongol conquests (1206-1324)[2][3][4][5]
• 27,000,000 – Second Sino-Japanese War (1937-1945)[6]
• 25,000,000 – Qing dynasty conquest of Ming Dynasty (1616–1662)[7]
• 20,000,000 – Taiping Rebellion (1850–1864)[8]
• 16,563,868-30,000,000 – World War I/Great War (1914–1918) (see World War I casualties)
• 13,000,000 - An Lushan Rebellion (755–763)[9]
• 10,000,000 – Era of Warring States (475 BCE–221 BCE)
• 10,000,000 - Red Eyebrows Rebellion (9-24)
• 8,000,000–12,000,000 – Dungan revolt (1862 –1877)
• 7,500,000 – Chinese Civil War (1927–1949)[10]
• 7,000,000–20,000,000 – Conquests of Tamerlane (1370–1405)[11][12]
• 7,000,000 - Reconquista (711-1492)
• 5,000,000–9,000,000 – Russian Civil War and Foreign Intervention (1917–1922)[13]
• 5,000,000 - Conquests of Aurangzeb (1681-1707)
• 5,000,000 - Gothic War (535-554)
• 5,000,000 – Conquests of Menelik II of Ethiopia (1882–1898)[14][15]
• 4,000,000 - Three Kingdoms War in Ancient China (189-280)
• 3,500,000–6,000,000 – Napoleonic Wars (1803–1815) (see Napoleonic Wars casualties)
• 3,000,000–11,500,000 – Thirty Years' War (1618–1648)[16]

It seems that my country China, has been involved a majority of the bloodiest wars at the top of the list.

In the top 10 I think we were involved in every single one.

Chinese history is full of war. In general, I think humankind are naturally warlike, especially towards different tribes and different countries.

Even modern day Chinese still worship "Guan Yu" as a Deity/God, he was the great military General from the Three Kingdoms period:




For example, in Hong Kong there is a statue of Guan Yu in every single Police station. The Chinese Triads also worship him, interestingly enough. Even Chinese Buddhists worship him as a Buddhist deity or a Bodhisattva.

Generals have a great place in Chinese history. I guess everyone knows the name of "Sun Tzu", but there were plenty of others as well. Yue Fei and Zheng He for example.

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I have opened this thread to get your view on war, and the predisposition of the human species towards the nature of war.

Personally, I am a person who thinks that war should always be the very last resort. I am a pacifist, I only support the use of a nation's military for self-defense, not offensive war.

But I also admit that warfare will probably never end, as long as human beings still yet live.