| Sumario: | The object of this essay is to show how in their evolution, wars passed through several stages which span from the Napoleonic to the asymmetric war forms; this is a type that diffuses the manner in which combatants identify themselves, and where the front line of the struggle rests with the civilian population.The fourth generation war is the form of combat that will prevail in the XXI century and the legitimacy of the state to wage a war as the only agent would be questionable; in order to develop the concepts of asymmetric war, an empirical support on this type of conflict is resorted to.In the first part, the process of the modern war will be discussed, in second part the theoretical frame from the perspective of international relations will be dealt with, in the third part it will be shown that the trinitary principles of Clausewitz do not apply to this type of conflicts, in the following section the problem will be approached from the international legal order, and finally, empirical evidence is presented to demonstrate that democracy in itself does not stop conflicts, and is hit hardest by fourth generation wars.
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