Even casual inspection of the literature reveals following incomplete list of war terms- limited war and total war, cold war and hot war, local war and world war, controlled and uncontrolled war, accidental war and premeditated war, conventional and nuclear war, declared and undeclared war, and civil war, absolute war political war, economic war, social war, strategic war. Much of the complexity stems from the fact that the epithets refer to different aspects of and perspectives on war, war as condition, techniques of warfare alleged motives and or objective of war or assumptions about belligerent behavior and the causes of war. War is species in the genus of violence more specifically it is collective, direct, manifest, personal, intentional, organized institutionalized and sometimes violence. These distinguishing features and dimensional delineations are not limitative. It should be perfectly clear, however that war or the state of belligerence, is a very special category of violence. War is a state of armed conflict between states, and it is generally characterized by extreme violence destruction and using regular or irregular military forces. Total war is warfare that is not restricted to purely legitimate military targets and can result in the massive civilian.