Sentence examples for essence of war from inspiring English sources
Those mutually contradictory values are, in many ways, the essence of war.
"Uncertainty is the essence of war, surprise its rule," Napoleon once said.
The essence of war, he told British politicians more than a year before the outbreak of hostilities, was violence; moderation in war was imbecility.
This word suggested a fallacious assumption: Poverty persisted only because of hitherto weak government resolve regarding the essence of war — marshaling material resources.
The most powerful weapon these writers have at their command is poetry's ability to distil experience; it captures the essence of war as nothing else can.
The rhetoric is imbued with ecclesiastic-ism (nothing less for an Anzac myth that has become our secular religion) when the essence of war, without public relations, is always horrible death over access to land.
The Syrian war has been so extraordinarily ugly because Assad has chosen to fight it not by simply targeting opposing combatants – the essence of wars fought in compliance with the Geneva Conventions – but by conducting indiscriminate attacks against civilians in opposition-held territory.
When responding to a letter from DJ Enright about his war poetry more than 40 years later, in 1960, Sassoon wrote that the "essence of my war poems was fellow feelings for the troops, whose sufferings were so remote from the comprehension of many civilians.
Indeed, Mortenson's efforts remind us what the essence of the "war on terrorism" is about.
Yet everyone also asserts that there is no question of following them with ground attacks, which is the essence of coordinated war.
