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The stalemate rule has had a convoluted history. [46] Although stalemate is universally recognized as a draw today, that was not the case for much of the game's history. In the forerunners to modern chess, such as chaturanga, delivering stalemate resulted in a loss. [47] This was changed in shatranj, however, where stalemating was a win.
The book is set in 1960 and describes "the engines of war", which have become so efficient that war is inconceivable and all countries are at a perpetual stalemate. [13] [non-primary source needed] MAD has been invoked by more than one weapons inventor.
If recent warnings of a stalemate war between Ukraine and Russia come to fruition, along with the West’s absent resolution for Ukraine’s win, Russian President Vladimir Putin will benefit ...
The Vietnam War The Iran–Iraq War (1980–1988) killed more than 500,000 people before a UN-brokered ceasefire ended it. The "Long War" during the Provisional IRA's armed campaign against the British Army during the Troubles. The Israeli–Egyptian War of Attrition from 1967 to 1970. The Soviet–Afghan War and later the Afghan Civil War ...
This page is subject to the extended confirmed restriction related to the Arab-Israeli conflict. War of Attrition Part of the Arab–Israeli conflict and the Cold War The Israeli–Egyptian war of Attrition was centered largely on the Suez Canal. Date July 1, 1967 – August 7, 1970 (ceasefire) (3 years, 1 month and 6 days) Location Sinai Peninsula (Israeli controlled) Result Inconclusive (see ...
A world war is an international conflict that involves most or all of the world's major powers. [1] Conventionally, the term is reserved for two major international conflicts that occurred during the first half of the 20th century, World War I (1914–1918) and World War II (1939–1945), although some historians have also characterized other global conflicts as world wars, such as the Nine ...
Guerrilla warfare during the Peninsular War, by Roque Gameiro, depicting a Portuguese guerrilla ambush against French forces. Guerrilla warfare is a form of unconventional warfare in which small groups of irregular military, such as rebels, partisans, paramilitary personnel or armed civilians, including recruited children, use ambushes, sabotage, terrorism, raids, petty warfare or hit-and-run ...
The term status quo ante bellum is a Latin phrase meaning "the situation as it existed before the war". [1] The term was originally used in treaties to refer to the withdrawal of enemy troops and the restoration of prewar leadership. When used as such, it means that no side gains or loses any territorial, economic, or political rights.