by Kirk Stefanski

Created on: March 08, 2010   Last Updated: March 09, 2010

For the purpose of this essay I will use the article "WE" to refer to we, the people, of this planet: Earth.

As both a military veteran and someone who has, and continues to study the nature of what exactly "health" is (and also the nature, structure, functioning and origins of conflict), allow me to suggest that we not conceptualize our approach to analyzing and treating disease, with war. 

Let me put it another way. War and Disease are both only symptoms - the end products of grand meta diseases present within domestic and international society.

Why are wars fought? Each historic example of an armed conflict must be viewed as a singular product of circumstantial dysfunction leading up to its moment of conflagration. In this sense it is easy to model disease after war.  As in the case of disease, individuation of the circumstances is important to resolution/treatment. 

As a war occurs within a nation...that nation has a let's say "collective medical history" of its relations and dealings with other unified, nationalized and mobilized groups of human beings called states and countries. 

Peoples' racial, cultural and religious differences have always been favorite subjects of their leaders' exploitation...and leaders' avarice, ambition and professionalism have always been favorite targets in the interests of the financiers, corporates and other grand strategists and game-makers.

War can also be compared with disease in the sense that ordinary people are forced into, and seemingly have no control over the sweeping circumstances of both war and disease.

An ordinary soldier on the ground often has little true grasp of his or her circumstances other than the taskings of their specialty. (Of course a superior one strives to expand their perspectival awareness of things).

Similarly, most people within modern society don't seem to have a great inclination towards investigating the circumstances under which their physical bodies can function optimally and problem free. That specialized knowledge has long been trusted, especially in the western world...to the physicians.

Just as soldiers trust the quality of their training, equipment, units and fielding to to their ultimate subject matter experts - Officers and Policymakers.

So need we agree that wars are unavoidable and must be fought? Wars always seem so unavoidable. No other way out for the 2 parties, who both have been pushed together and then all riddled in fear and desperation for their

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