Future Conflict Eco-Systems in the Midst of Climate/Resource Pressures

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Wars are created by politics. Nothing else. No climate, not religion or globalisation. Clausewitz explains it all very well.

I'd agree with Clausewitz in that war is politics by other means. But what is politics? It is certainly not a free-standing bloc detached from everything around it. War might be shaped by politics but the political environment is shaped by social, economic, cultural and environmental events that are taking place simultaneously.

Eg: If a society can no longer grow crops because of increasing desertification the people will migrate in search of arable land. The areas they move into then become overpopulated, which in turn exacerbates pre-existing political tensions and ethnic pressures.

Yes, it was the pre-existing political and ethnic pressures (politics) that were the ultimate cause of the conflict but it was the other factors (overpopulation, economic stress, loss of agriculture) that forced the political problems past the tipping point and made war inevitable.

"Other phenomenon" (eg: globalisation, climate, religion) drives politics which creates conflict.

Nothing about War has changed in 3,000 years.

I would say the advent of gunpowder (which is not a political but a technological event) has changed the way war is waged. Nuclear energy (another technological advance) certainly deterred state-state wars between countries with nuclear weapons. The Internet (one aspect of globalisation) has given a larger voice to individuals and allowed violent non-state actors to add new dimensions to war other than the purely physical (social, psychological).

The fundamental purpose of war has not changed. The way it is waged certainly has. I think you may be confusing "method" with "purpose".