Weapons and equipment is the material basis of war.

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The basis of war, for the war service of military operations rely on a variety of factors. Such as economic conditions, social conditions, military conditions, geographical conditions, etc., are the material basis for military action, that is, the basis of war. Achievement of war aims and political, economic, military forces, geographical conditions, international environment, the quality of commanders and other factors are closely related to the subjective guidance must be consistent with the objective reality.

Causes of war

Historically, there have been different views on war and its root causes. Naturalistic war scholars believe that the roots of war lie in the natural environment and the biological nature of human beings, and consider war a natural and eternal phenomenon.

Religious war theorists, on the other hand, believe that war is God's punishment of man and use supernatural forces to explain the causes of war. Racists believe that wars are caused by differences between superior and inferior peoples, and modern geopolitical scholars believe that wars are based on geography, i.e., competition for a certain amount of living space and natural resources.

The Malthusians, on the other hand, believe that overpopulation and hunger are the real causes of war, and historical materialism holds that war is neither ever present nor eternal, and that it is a product of the development of the productive forces and relations of production of society up to a certain point in time, and that it comes into being after the emergence of private ownership, with the formation of classes and states, and the emergence of the oppressing and the oppressed.