According to Charles Tilly, war is always a significant element of state politics. He firmly feels that wars are essential to societies. How can we understand how violence and war are necessary even in contemporary society through the example of the US military's conflict in Afghanistan (also known as the "war on terrorism"), which lasted for around a decade beginning in October 2001 and was intended to crush the powers of the Taliban who were arising terrorism all over the world?

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According to Charles Tilly, war is always a significant element of state politics. He firmly feels that wars are essential to societies. How can we understand how violence and war are necessary even in contemporary society through the example of the US military's conflict in Afghanistan (also known as the "war on terrorism"), which lasted for around a decade beginning in October 2001 and was intended to crush the powers of the Taliban who were arising terrorism all over the world?
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Charles Tilly is an American intellectual who plies his trade at the intersection where political science and sociology meet. His provocative statement "...war made the state, and the state made war". draws its force from his analysis of the birth of modern nation states in Europe over the past few centuries. Put simply the argument tell us how states (administrative structures) were formed because of the pressures and demands of war.  

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