Sentence examples for doctrine of war from inspiring English sources

The New Doctrine of War: Naval Battles Recur Every 317 Years or in Multiples Thereof, for Velimir Chlebnikov".

And yes, that countless civilians were then, as now, the inevitable, largely politically unspoken, "collateral" (to use the dehumanised euphemism of modern military doctrine) of war.

In the first half of the 19th century, the great military theorist of the Prussian general staff, Carl von Clausewitz, had advanced the doctrine of war as an extension of politics by different means.

The doctrine of "war without casualties," however, which gained ascendance in cruise-missile-yielding, post-Cold War America, drives this aspiration to irresponsible new heights, producing the arrogant and puerile delusion that wars can be fought without human loss.

The War Club... Bush doctrine of preventive war rests on military technology... post-Hiroshima notions of deterrence... perceived value of small wars disproved by Vietnam... defense intellegentsia discovers precision weaponry... mistaken faith in "shock and awe".

I agree with your repudiation of the doctrine of preventive war but question your claim that "before the Iraq fiasco, American leaders rightly viewed war as a last resort, appropriate only when the nation's vital interests were actively threatened and reasonable diplomatic efforts had been exhausted".

In his State of the Union speech on January 29 , 2002 President Bush laid out a new doctrine of preemptive war, which went well beyond the long-established principle that the United States would go to war to prevent an adversary launching an attack that imminently threatened the country.

And Bret Stephens was the editor-in-chief of the Jerusalem Post when, in 2003, it named one of the Iraq War's chief architects, Paul Wolfowitz, its "man of the year," trumpeting his role as "principal author" of the doctrine of preëmptive war that would "underpin U.S. action against other rogue states".

By going to war out of a concern for what Hussein might do in the future, the United States has embraced a doctrine of preventive war.

They applaud his doctrine of preventive war.

The latter position comes uncomfortably close to the discredited doctrine of preventive war.