Detailed, timely information about tactical conditions is indispensable in deterring or defeating enemies, so much of contemporary military debate revolves around how best to collect, analyze and share such information.
His favoured method was assassination of the most important contemporary enemy of the Muslims, the apostate "Pharaoh", a clear reference to the president of Egypt, Anwar Sadat.
All of this is grist to the mill of contemporary art's enemies such as the playwright Tom Stoppard, who attacked "conceptual art" for its refusal of the work that goes into "real" art.
Gonanda was the first king and a contemporary and enemy of the Hindu deity Krishna.
Kaplan's worldview is clear: he is an enemy of the conceit of the contemporary.
Critic Roger Ebert observed, "Like Brave New World and 1984, the movie plays like a critique of contemporary society, with the Alliance as Big Brother, enemy of discontent".
That reality, and its vindication of the miners' stand, is well understood 30 years later, and reflected in the power of contemporary films such as Pride and the new documentary Still the Enemy Within.
The in-flight entertainment consists of contemporary Chinese soap operas and old movies about revolutionary heroes battling various fascist enemies.
Overnight the dynamics of contemporary art changed.
His knowledge of contemporary art was limited.
