Sentence examples for goals of war from inspiring English sources

And he calls to mind many elusive goals of war efforts in a script that achieves many of its aims to blend realism and fantasy.

"You have to have something to live for". And he calls to mind many elusive goals of war efforts in a script that achieves many of its aims to blend realism and fantasy.

The development of machine-centred warfare had restored mobility to the battlefield; science and the arts of administration had allowed those techniques to be fully applied; and modern politics meant that the goals of war had become not the seizure of isolated provinces for barter but nothing less than the survival of states and even peoples.

During the armed conflicts and wars of the 20th and 21st Centuries, there have been no small amount of faith-based resistance to the political and military goals of war fighting.

Appropriately enough, diplomacy, that part of government which classically would have been associated with peace, or at least with the pursuit of the goals of war by other means, has been dwarfed by, subordinated to, or even subsumed by the Pentagon.

Postwar books, news reports and documentaries — a flood of information the general had restricted during the war — showed that most of Iraq's elite Republican Guard, whose destruction had been a goal of war planners, had escaped from an ill-coordinated Marine and Army assault, and had not been pursued because of President Bush's decision to halt the ground war after 100 hours.

"The Mehinakus are so strict about female and male task attribution that a bachelor would rather go hungry than cook for himself," he would say, or "The Aztecs believed that the goal of war was to take prisoners, not kill the enemy, and that's why they lost to the Spanish so quickly".

The goal of war, Lewis contends, is to "defeat the enemy's will to fight". Only an aggressive, strategic military offensive can achieve victory in war and thereafter secure a sustainable peace, while defensiveness, indecision, and apologetic nation-building only prolong the carnage and end in precarious stalemates.

Finding the others has been the goal of war-crimes investigators for more than two years.

To imply that neutralizing an archterrorist will weaken the American war on terror raises concerns about just what the goals of this war are.

But the United States' entry into the First World War revealed tensions between intellectuals devoted to experimentation, both personal and cultural, and those who supported the "progressive" goals of the war and the ordering of modern society by experts.