Even if you look at it from a very cynical point of view, of regime survival, war with the U.S. is not an endgame.
He tells his staff, "You don't change your target when you're in the bomb run!" A little later, when talking about the company's strategy, he declares, "The war is called survival; the war is called 'Not running out of money until we get our product on the market".
This War of Mine, for instance, tackles sexual violence during war as part of its examination of survival in war zones; games that explore violence, like Spec Ops: The Line, are only possible now because we have begun to accept that games can be for grown-ups and can explore difficult, adult topics intelligently.
The result is powerful and consoling, more about survival than war.
The nominee, "Mongol," directed by Sergei Bodrov, a Russian, is a tale of survival and war that tracks the early life of Genghis Khan.
RACHID OURAMDANE This week the Zimbabwean-born choreographer Nora Chipaumire is at Dance Theater Workshop, presenting a memoir of survival during war in her solo "Chimurenga".
Women were reported to have persevered in their primary care-giving roles for a decent survival during war even in situations of diminished life opportunities.
Even patriarchy cannot depend on war for its long-term survival, since the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have, at least within US forces, established women's worth as warriors.
Everyone knows that destruction is easier than creation--if you want to destroy something (not including clan wars, survival servers, dedicated griefing servers, etc)., wreck your own creations.
But then, as Clark himself writes, modern war is "not a fight for national survival," like World War II, but more often a "carefully restrained and limited action".
