Indeed war is peace. This is an important rule that I learned from reading 1984 by George Orwell. The easiest way for any country to have peace within is to go to war. No matter how many different races are in one country and no matter how much they hate each other. Once there is a common goal, a common enemy people forget who they are and focus on how to get there enemy. They all remember that no matter how much they might hate each other but in the end they all love their country. Think of a number of brothers and sisters they might have just had a huge fight with each other and are not speaking any more. As soon as one of them gets into a fight the rest of his brothers and sisters will stand up for him. This is exactly what happens in whole nations. The Party in 1984 understood this principle very well. That is why they were constantly at war with one of the other two World powers and at peace with the other one. They understood that as long as the people were kept busy with a feeling of danger that anything might happen they would also not protest the decisions of the Party, as long as the Party kept them safe. So it was basically a win – win situation for the party. They also knew that no side would ever win the other one so they would always be at war with each other. So in order to achieve peace within there has to be a war outside. Simple.
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