Sentence examples for basis of war from inspiring English sources

Worse, the illusion that there is a simple techno-military solution to grave humanitarian exigencies is necessarily inherently naive about the social basis of war, and therefore about the potential for even the best-intentioned intervention to go horribly wrong.

Then, the very basis of violence, the very basis of war, they're no longer there.

"To explain all that on the basis of the war in Iraq seems to be a stretch".

"The philosophical basis of the war on copyright is crackpot and stillborn," and "apart from unavoidable forays, it is best to stay out of such thickets".

Kennan and Charles Bohlen, another State Department expert on Russia, argued about the wording of NSC-68, which became the basis of Cold War policy.

(Naturally, I don't ever expect to hear anyone arguing for withdrawal on the basis of the war being expensive and difficult and unpopular, because I guess that means "we lose" -- by which I mean "we lose" in the sense that we all feel bad for a while, emotionally.

Mr. Putin has opposed the administration efforts to amend the Antiballistic Missile Treaty of 1972, considered the basis of cold-war arms control, to allow a missile defense system.

"Human rights" are a useful rule of thumb for judging a country's moral performance, but a wobbly basis for wars of intervention.

His argument is based solely on morals relating to the basis of going to war and not on morals of obtaining the spoils of that war (which themselves are the reason for going to war: whatever one argues you always think of the outcomes of something before doing it, at least on the international stage).

Only a few weeks ago, I praised President Obama for publicly questioning the basis of the ongoing "war on terror".

It matters because the threat from Iraq was the whole basis of selling the war to the American people.