Sentence examples for messy war from inspiring English sources

Iraq was a messy war with no tidy end.

But a messy war and the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression?

A messy war, after all, Page 3. Efforts to rebuild Afghanistan continue.

He campaigned for re-election in 1916 boasting of having kept the country out of Europe's messy war.

Bringing people to justice at the end of a messy war was always going to be a messy business.

Two hundred and twenty-eight years later, President Obama is wrapping up our own long and messy war, but we have no Guy Carleton in Iraq.

Rose's greatest contribution is his account of the messy ends of the messy wars that followed World War II.

Thus presidential reputations can recover, however undeservedly, from messy wars and bloody stalemates — as case of Truman himself, once despised and now overrated, amply demonstrates.

The gap between its ambition to be a "force for good" around the world and its ability to fight messy wars in distant lands has been exposed by eight years of fighting.

But for the foreseeable future, America's Department of Defence says, America's biggest worry will be small messy wars, fought with messy alliances with messy outcomes; more Iraqs, Afghanistans and campaigns against the likes of al-Qaeda.The Pentagon now calls this the "Long War against violent extremist movements" (dropping the old appellation of the "Global War on Terrorism").

He spoke of the lessons the organization is learning there about how to be better prepared for an era of messier wars and freelance warlords impervious to the international pressures that once helped rein in renegade governments.