But scholars agree it entails damaging your enemy in ways that can be denied, with tactics as diverse as fielding troops without uniforms or launching crippling cyber attacks.
The Continental Army had two main types of troops: diverse local militia forces who tended to return home whenever a particular danger was past; and the "Continentals," a unified standing force whose members enlisted for longer terms and were trained more thoroughly than the militia.
Mr. Driver, a former Marine lance corporal, said by telephone on Sunday that the idea for the company came from a need that he and Ms. Tucker, whom he met while studying theater at Juilliard, noticed for more culturally diverse entertainment for the troops.
To their huge credit, the founders of Sledgehammer, Michael Condrey and Glen Schofield, emphasised that this would be a diverse story, taking in British troops and French resistance fighters.
As well as a general feeling of war weariness, sources say they have sensed a resistance in an increasingly diverse nation to see British troops deployed in countries from which UK citizens, or their families, once came.
The debate is really one about balancing risks -- the risk that there will not be enough soldiers to carry out diverse missions or that current troops will not re-enlist after repeated, exhausting assignments that degrade their quality of life and do not leave enough time for training.
Diversity is, instead, diverse.
The troop's membership is diverse, including members of many ethnic backgrounds, he said.
Why was this diverse group of people aboard a troop ship?
But on the ground, the dangers to our troops, my wards, were more diverse and aggressive than microbes.
