There are no less than 200 words in beautiful fragments about the danger of war.

War is a special social and historical phenomenon, and it is an armed struggle between human social groups for certain political and economic purposes. Since the emergence of war, it has brought great disasters to mankind and caused great losses to people's lives and property.

Today's People's Liberation Army newspaper lists the losses caused by major wars since the 20th century, in order to show that, especially after the 20th century, with the progress of science and technology, the means of war are constantly enriched, and the war has caused greater harm to mankind.

According to incomplete statistics, the First World War lasted four years and three months, with 33 countries and a population of more than 654.38+0.5 billion. The two sides of the war mobilized 65.4 million troops, with more than 30 million casualties, direct war costs of 654.38+0863 billion dollars and property losses of 330 billion dollars.

The Second World War lasted for six years, and more than 60 countries and regions participated in the war successively, affecting 2 billion people. The two sides of the war mobilized 1. 1 100 million troops, more than 70 million soldiers and civilians died, property losses reached 4 trillion US dollars, and direct war costs135.2 million US dollars.

The Vietnam War, which lasted 14 years, was the longest and most intense large-scale local war after the Second World War. During the war, 6,543,800 people died in Vietnam, and more than 6,543,800 people became refugees. 57,000 people died and more than 300,000 people were injured in the United States; The war cost more than 200 billion dollars.

The Iran-Iraq war lasted for nearly eight years. Iran suffered more than 600,000 casualties and Iraq suffered more than 400,000 casualties. There are more than 3 million homeless refugees in both countries. The sharp drop in oil revenue and the damage to production facilities in both countries exceeded $540 billion. The total losses of the two countries in this war amounted to 900 billion dollars. The war has delayed the economic development plans of the two countries for at least 20 to 30 years.

The Gulf War lasted 42 days. 286 Americans were killed, 3,636 wounded and 55 captured or missing. The armies of other countries also suffered slight losses. On the Iraqi side, there were nearly 654.38 million casualties and 86,000 prisoners. Kuwait lost 60 billion in direct war, Iraq lost about 200 billion, and the US war cost 60 billion.

The Kosovo war lasted 78 days. The US-led NATO * * * dispatched 20,000 sorties, dropped 2 1000 tons of bombs and launched 300 cruise missiles, which caused serious damage to military, civil and industrial facilities and residential areas in most parts of Yugoslavia. The air strikes also killed more than 0/000 innocent civilians in FRY/KLOC, and hundreds of thousands of Albanians became refugees. Depleted uranium bombs used in the war and cluster bombs prohibited by the Geneva Conventions lead to neonatal leukemia and various malformations. The continuous bombing has also seriously deteriorated the ecological environment of Yugoslavia and its neighboring countries and regions.