Food and shelter.
No, people in the middle ages had to be prepared for war at any time. It was a struggle to survive and was a truly bloodthirsty time.
There were a few disadvantages of the Revolutionary War. The loss of life, the struggle of the people, and the lack of money and provisions were the disadvantages of the war.
Lenin believed World War 1 was an imperialist struggle, by which he meant a capitalist struggle. His opinion of imperialism was that it was capitalism at its highest order. He also urged people to turn the imperialist war into civil war in order to take down the Tsarist government and institute a socialist one.
The most divisive issue in the creation of the new US constitution, following the Revolutionary War, was the issue of slavery. Of course, this remained a divisive issue until after the Civil War.
...was moderate on the slavery issue, and had not yet started to worry about Britain planning to send aid to the Confederates. (The Emancipation Proclamation was issued mainly to prevent this.) Like most people, he thought it would be a short war.
It was a struggle against communism.
The arms race, Empires and the Alliances were the power struggles of Europe. at the time.
Best phrase politicians could come up with at the time to separate it from "hot" wars. Cold War=No War Hot War=Shooting War
The Cold War
The cold war
The cold war
The cold war