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Synopsis Since the dawn of history, people have fought against other people. Any struggle in which two large groups try to destroy or conquer each other is a war. There have been many kinds of wars. Families have fought against families, tribes against tribes, and followers of one religion against followers of another. In modern times, wars have been fought between nations or groups of nations. Wars have always caused great sufferings and hardship. Most people hate war, yet for hundreds of years war has been going on somewhere in the world nearly all the time. Societies decide its destiny with the iron and blood and make every effort to perfect their military hardware and war equipment to defeat the enemy. To understand why wars continue to go on when nearly everyone wants to have peace. Therefore, we must understand the war and warfare. Probing war and warfare is an academic attempt to understand the concept and meaning, history, theory, causes, necessary evils, nature and scope, law, principles and procedure of war. Further, an attempt has been made to understand revolutionary warfare and low intensity conflict, psychological, economic, chemicals and biological, nuclear electronic, space and information warfare. What revolution in military affairs is taking place is also discussed to understand the future course of war and warfare.