Sentence examples for aims of war from inspiring English sources

While Americans have continued to support the aims of war there, worries are growing about progress, or lack of it.

His point is that the aim of war has changed.

Galula's thesis is that one aim of war is to support the local population rather than control the territory.

When politics provokes the crisis -- when, for example, hunger is deliberately induced as an aim of war -- things get much murkier.

Clausewitz maintained that the main aim of war was to destroy the enemy's forces; in this case, American strategy is likely to be closer to that of Sun Tzu, an ancient Chinese theorist who argued that "those skilled in war subdue the enemy's army without battle.

The aim of war, Rawls says, is to bring all societies to honor the law of peoples, and eventually to become fully participating members of international society.

Too many times throughout history, the aim of war has been not just to defeat the enemy but to eradicate them and the fruits of their culture from the face of the earth.

Weapons used must be proportionate to the opponent and the aim of war, not indiscriminate tools of destruction.

But even to these persons, and certainly to many others, the term is often a dirty one tending to connote such things as the discredited atrocity stories and deceptively stated war aims of World Wars I and II, the operations of the Nazis' Ministry of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda, and the broken campaign promises of a thousand politicians.

The pronouncement was odd, in that the aims of the war had been largely "psychological".

Marshall wanted to explain to them the aims of the war and the nature of the enemy; he wanted soldiers who knew what they were fighting for.