Sentence examples for a war of perception from inspiring English sources

"This is a war of perception," said Mahmoud Saikal, a former Afghan deputy foreign minister and a political activist.

LAST summer, as the nation's war effort and attention turned from Iraq to Afghanistan, the new United States commander there, Gen. Stanley McChrystal, insisted that the struggle was not about killing the enemy or capturing ground, but instead a "war of perception".

If one needed any proof that a war of perceptions is in the offing, look no further than a memorandum that Mr. McCain's campaign distributed last week, arguing that Mr. Obama should expect what would be a record-shattering 15-percent bump in the polls once he finishes his convention speech on Thursday.

"This is all a war of perceptions.

And in a war of perceptions, it undeniably handed the Taliban a propaganda victory.Leaving captured territory is controversial because, in addition to the fillip it gives the Taliban, it can also mean abandoning friendly local Afghans.

We may not win General McChrystal's war of perception, but we cannot afford a military defeat in Afghanistan.

In the war of perception against reality, almost nothing can be harder to gauge than the meaning of test scores.

Does this kind of strategy limit war to the extent that states can accomplish their military objectives - wiping out terrorism - without losing the war of perception?

But in the war of perception between that claim and the daily stories of tortured prisoners and civilian deaths America is losing.

Given the general's recent firing, increasing deaths on the battlefield and the release last week of thousands of classified documents by WikiLeaks painting a dismal picture of the war effort, it is clear that we are losing badly in the war of perception.

"The government is losing the war of perception," says Mr Jakhar.