World War 3 - How it may happen

World War 3 - How it may happen

Historian Ernest May has stated, “While history never repeats itself, it sometimes rhymes.”This understanding of history may hold the key to foreseeing or preventing major war between the world’s great powers.. Envisioning the future can be based on our ability to understand how the future is likely to “rhyme”.

As the Mayans believed the past will always come full circle to the future 

Changes in the relative standing of great powers throughout history have led to a proclivity for war. The theory of power transition states that war results when great powers surpass one another in economic and military might. 

War is likely as the rising power desires a greater stake in the world and the waning power attempts to stave off decline. 

Examples of such rising power initiated great wars are Sparta in the Peloponnesian War, Rome in the Punic Wars, and Germany in WWI and WWII. War between the US and ascending China therefore appears likely under this framework due to competition over resources and spheres of influence. 

As China continues to purchase US debt and the demand for fossil fuels intensifies, both countries appear to be on a collision course with each other. 




System Factors 

War is most likely to occur when the military strategy of offense is deemed more successful than defense. 

In WWI, all five powers (Germany, Austria, France, Russia, and England) promoted the advantages of the offense to one degree or another In WWII, Germany and Japan toted the advantages of offense while England and France maintained the primacy of defence.

Whereas in WWI where all states collided in the “cult of the offensive,” the offensive strategy of Germany and Japan in WWII took advantage of the Allies’ defensive posture—at least in the short term. 

Thus, either unanimous support for the offensive or an imbalance where one side favours the offense can lead to war. The most stable solution to preventing a major war is when the defensive military strategy is favoured by all powers. 


Final Thoughts 

With a more unbalanced multipolar world, some experts believe that it is the most unstable of all possible world orders.

China has adopted capitalism and has quickly flourished into an economic powerhouse creating itself as a world power competitor in these circumstances world war 3 between china and the west may be inevitable. 

Chinese President Hu Jintao has warned the United States administration to respect Beijing’s sovereignty over Taiwan and Tibet. 

He made the remarks at a luncheon with senior US officials and business leaders in Washington on Thursday. 

The Chinese president who is on a state visit to the US, said Taiwan and Tibet represent China’s core interests. 

“Taiwan and Tibet-related issues concern Chinese sovereignty and territorial integrity,” Hu said in Washington. 

Meanwhile, US lawmakers and Hu’s counterpart Barack Obama pressed him on human rights concerns in China. 

Hu also urged Washington to seek bilateral relations based on mutual respect and cooperation. He called on Washington to try to handle major issues of interest smoothly. 

“A review of the history of our relations tells us that US-China relations will enjoy smooth and steady growth when the two countries handle well issues involving each other’s major interests,” AFP quoted Hu as saying. 

“Otherwise our relations will suffer constant trouble or even tension,” he added. 
China has reduced its military cooperation with the Pentagon over the $6.4 billion US arms sales to Taiwan. 

Taiwan and China split in 1949 during a civil war, but Beijing still regards Taiwan as part of its territory. The territorial integrity china is talking about involve refusing to allow Taiwan full independence numerous stern warnings have been issued in Chinas parliament warning Taiwan against moves towards independence.

Beijing has repeatedly threatened to invade Taiwan should the island make a formal declaration of independence. While Taiwan has replied with vows to defend itself, Taiwan has one of the world’s foremost defence plans using American weaponry and technology the threat from china is in no way underestimated by Taiwan.

Any crisis over Taiwan would also have wider international implications.

While Washington switched diplomatic recognition from Taipei to Beijing in 1979, it is obliged under US law to help Taiwan if the island is attacked, and has warned Mr Chen against provoking the mainland. 

If china were to attack Taiwan the us then would be obliged to help there ally, how this help would come is unknown but it is safe to say china would not accept this aid and protection of Taiwan and would therefore be set for red hot tensions with the us if the us directly intervened with military means then china would be left with two options - back down or declare war on the us. 

With both sides posseoing a prolific array of nuclear weaponry then a collision course would be set for world war three.

To add to the problem in the same region north and South Korea have repeatedly come close to attacks. In the situation of china and Taiwan going to war then North Korea may launch a pre-emptive strike on South Korea to gain Chinas support.

A further complication involves the Middle East if Israel or the US attack Iran due to them gaining nuclear weapons then another theatre of war will be opened up that could draw Russia into the mix.

Russia will have to exhibit a show of strength, Russian and Chinese forces have trained together but the history between the two countries had been riddled with dispute and tensions. 

So they do not make easy allies but may have a shared view that America and nato is a threat to them both and so Russia could easily decide to become involved in any developing conflict. 

All the major players in such a scenario posse’s nuclear weapon capabilities and so world war three will be a nuclear war.


Once America is firmly entrenched into the Middle East and North Africa with the majority of her first-line units, North Korea is to attack South Korea. Then, with America's forces stretched well beyond the limit, China is to invade Taiwan. This will usher in the start of World War Three.





Israel at War -- Against her Arab neighbours. in 2006 Israel launched full attacks against Lebanon targeting the Hezbollah group who had been staging attacks against Israeli forces this conflict quickly flared up it ended after losses were incurred by both sides Israel launched numerous airstrikes in retaliation for Hezbollah launching rocket attacks on Israeli towns. 

Both sides blamed each other and both vowed not to back down. This event could be quickly repeated if Israel feels sevelry threatened they will have no qualms in launching attacks and could expand these attacks to larger regional threats such as Iran who will retaliate and refuse to surrender dramatically escalating the situation.

Once Iran declares war on Israel NATO may come to Israel’s assistance igniting the whole region.

The final end game Includes 
China invading Taiwan 

Taiwan defence plan begins missile strikes against china

A nuclear eruption on the Korean Peninsula.

South Korea invade the north

North Korea retaliates with missile and artillery bombardment of the south

Nat intervene to defend the sovereignty of Taiwan and South Korea

Incidents play out such as Chinese aircraft being shot down by the US this leads to an eventual declaration of war – World war 3

NATO has to support and fight with the us china retaliates by declaring war on all NATO forces

World war 3 begins involving conventional fighting as well as nuclear attacks battlefield/and intercontinentals
How will the nuclear battle of world war 3 play out
Some Cold War strategists such as Henry Kissinger argued that a limited nuclear war could be possible between two heavily armed superpowers (such as the United States and china) and if so several predicted that a limited war could "escalate" into an all-out war. 

Others have called limited nuclear war "global nuclear holocaust in slow motion" arguing that once such a war took place others would be sure to follow over a period of decades, effectively rendering the planet uninhabitable in the same way that a "full-scale nuclear war" between superpowers would, only taking a much longer and more agonizing path to achieve the same result.

Even the most optimistic predictions of the effects of a major nuclear exchange foresee the death of a hundred million people within a very short amount of time; more pessimistic predictions argue that a full-scale nuclear war could bring about the extinction of the human race or its near extinction with a handful of survivors (mainly in remote areas) and cause permanent damage to most complex life on the planet, Earth's ecosystems, and the global climate, particularly if predictions of nuclear winter are accurate. It is in this latter mode that nuclear warfare is usually alluded to as simply - a doomsday scenario.

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