What is the difference between a military conflict and a war?

Is there any difference between a military conflict and a war or is the term "military conflict" used as a politically correct way to say "war?"What is the difference between a military conflict and a war?The words used to describe 'fighting' depend on who is in power, politically. 'Military conflict' doesn't sound quite as bad as 'war', so I suppose politicians who want to downplay the awfulness of a particular 'war', would choose to call it a 'military conflict'. I hardly think the average Amercan is fooled by this. War is war is war......fighting is fighting, and conflict where military is involved is war. I often wonder who the politicians think they are kidding...........?What is the difference between a military conflict and a war?
a war is generally defined as a military engagement between two or more soveriegn nations...a military conflict is an engagement between two parties, either of which may be official military or not



for example, the conflict in Iraq right now, and since 2003, isn't really a war, because we're not fighting the Iraqi army (we're actually helping/training them) we're fighting the insurgent/terrorist/bastards who don't wear uniformsWhat is the difference between a military conflict and a war?None whatsoever. But in the U.S. we frequently use the word "military conflict" to avoid saying "war," because the Constitution says that only the Congress has the power to declare war. The Presidents of both parties have long since usurped that power (I believe that the last Congressional declaration of war in the U.S. was for World War II), and the spineless Congresses of both parties have let them get away with it.



Thus, we no longer have wars. We have 'military conflicts'.
Well, there is a difference between a conflict and an all out war. Lets use Operation Restore Hope/Battle for Mogadishu in Somalia in the 1990's under the Clinton Administration for example. It wasn't a war, it was a conflict. Which is way different from the Iraq War today.What is the difference between a military conflict and a war?I think, technically, they are the same, but...



"War" usually means a declared war, and is usually a large scale conflict.



"Conflict" usually means a small, limited engagement. Interventions are usually described as conflictsWhat is the difference between a military conflict and a war?
The result is the same in either event and the democrats are always opposed. The only war they have ever supported is the one that radical Islam wages against America. ...and don't misunderstand, they're on the side of the terrorists.
Well, I think an official "war" has to be declared, and we haven't declared war since WWII if I remember correctly.



The presidents these days like to ignore Congress.What is the difference between a military conflict and a war?
A war is a lasting conflict between to established nations, A military conflict only involves 1 nations military fighting someone, they can be the same and often are but not always.
war is declared like iraq and ww1 and military conflict is undeclared like the korean war and vietnam. The US has never lost a war
a military conflict is a military conflict

and war is war.