"Jihad [holy war] forces" from outside are joining in on the Muslim side, turning this into a true war of religion.
After all, in a true war of necessity, like World War II, a state and a people summon the capacity to do what must be done, no matter how difficult.
It is a true war of attrition.
Soon after it, there was government aid for home-grown film-makers; then the determined cultural revolution – a true war on philistinism – of the Gough Whitlam administration; and finally, cresting gloriously, the new wave itself.
A true war began in 1991, when thousands of Georgian soldiers entered Tskhinvali.
That is why there is no true war of ideas inside these countries — just a war.
And there is, of course, the true war of foundation on this continent – that between the British soldiers, settlers, police and militias, and the Indigenous nations, that resulted by some credible accounts in as many Australian deaths as the first world war.
The true war of attrition is between Kings and Queens County, as countless Queens residents retreat east, drawing in Brooklyn army's just as Russian and Soviet forces drew in first Napoleon, then Hitler.
In 2014, surely a true work of art about war, in any place, at any time, would capture the miserable nature of men so incapable of resolving their differences that they slaughtered each other in their millions in order to win.
It is in fact a casus belli, a true act of war, and one Washington will never tolerate".
(A third, late-released liner in the same class, the Britannic, hit a mine in the Aegean, in 1916, while serving as a hospital ship, and sank, a true casualty of war).
