The wounds of civil war are deeper and worse than the wounds in conventional, interstate wars. (From 2017)
Political entities have never been free of interior strife, from disputes to riots, insurrections and full-blown civil wars. But rarely have they dominated international conflict to the extent they do now. We are so used to the phenomenon that we rarely pause any longer to consider the oxymoron-like nature of the term, even though “civil” has positive connotations in every other use.
Q: That makes the civil war definition, or getting a grip on civil war, even more important—people conscious of war as a backdrop to modern life don’t always realize that it’s almost all internal. Q: Part of the problem is much of what took place after 1945 was also decolonialization. And yet in a place like Algeria, there were settler families who had been there for generations, so the violence took on civil war aspects.
And what’s interesting, again, as you point out, about what we now call the U.S. Civil War is that, for many of its participants at the time and for long afterwards, it was usually called the War of the Rebellion.
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