Sentence examples for defining war from inspiring English sources
Defining 'War,' " by Paul Starobin (Sunday Review, Aug. 7), about Harold Koh, the State Department legal adviser, paints too simplistic a picture of the legal basis for the Libya operation.
When pacifism is defined as anti-warism, we encounter the difficulty of defining war.
Both were generals presiding over a defining war and two-term presidents presiding over a defining peace.
The doctrine defines war as an evil, but does not mention the Russian operation in Chechnya.
It defines war as a conflict in which there are 1,000 battlefield deaths.
Another reader, Roscoe Gort, commented on an article this week, "Targeted Killing Comes to Define War on Terror".
Tolstoy famously rejected all attempts to define War and Peace and insisted it wasn't a novel at all.
For America, the potential risk is that its nonpolitically defined war on terrorism may thus be hijacked and diverted to other ends.
More generally, then, we should define war as a self-replicating pattern of activity that may or may not require human participation.
Clausewitz cogently defines war as a rational instrument of foreign policy: "an act of violence intended to compel our opponent to fulfill our will".
The A.P. in Vietnam had depth, much of its staff putting in a good decade of service, notably its intrepid editor Mr. Faas, who defined war photography.
