I thought it was a good answer. And I still do. Question was not why do they go to war, but why do they WANT to. Any nation will go to war in self-defense, but authoritarian governments like having an enemy: another country, a group within the country, or an abstraction.

Please don't tell me Hitler was forced to go to war with Poland. Please don't tell me he did it for any reason other than to gain power. And power is, of course, what my teacher was talking about, though she didn't use the word itself.

clint