Answer

Such questions need to be attempted on your own to test your creative writing skills. However, these points might help you elaborate:

- Throughout history wars have been fought over ownership of land, money, natural resources.

- Religious intolerance, communalism, racial discrimination and fanaticism have also led to wars.

- Some advantages of war are that it helps solve problems that are otherwise without any solution.

- It encourages development of new technology.

- Research in new and better weapons and tactics is promoted.

- According to Lord Krishna, sometimes war is inevitable.

- If fought for the right purposes of annihilating the forces of evil, war is justifiable.

- It gives an economic boost to the winning side.

- On the other hand, whatever may be the reasons, the effects of war are catastrophic.

- Many lives are lost in war, both of soldiers and civilians.

- It has devastating environmental effects.

- Violations of human rights are common during wars.

- Residential and commercial buildings are destroyed.

- Economy of a nation suffers as money is pumped into the war machine.

- Nuclear warfare is a threat to the very existence of Earth and mankind.

- War leaves a trail of destruction: war widows and orphans, cities and towns in rubble, the economy in shambles.

- War begets hatred and is not the solution to any problem.

- It is certainly not the end of any quarrel, rather it is the beginning of all kinds of problems and divisions amongst people and nations.