Despite his government's professed hopes to resume negotiations, General Gantz said, he is steeled for low-intensity but long-term warfare.
Several countries - Côte d'Ivoire, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Liberia and Sierra Leone - are still embroiled in, or emerging from, long-term warfare.
Europe's sense of threat from Russia is commonly discussed using the term "hybrid warfare," or warfare conducted through a range of tactics beyond conventional means, including political ones.
In a recent interview, columnist and former CNN correspondent Bob Franken noted that "the people who use the term 'class warfare' are the very people who have conducted a class warfare against everybody but the super-rich class".
I grimaced because, even though you did not use the term "class warfare", you reinforced that ridiculous concept.
The term "class warfare," banished for many years to the far left of our political discourse, has gradually moved toward its center.
Little wonder that more than one newspaper should use the term "open warfare" to describe the situation between the two clubs in the aftermath of the game.
The term hybrid warfare has been much in vogue recently with Western ministers, diplomats and military commanders lining up to warn of the Kremlin's use of such tactics.
Ironically, Republican efforts to denounce tax increases for millionaires helped bring the term "class warfare" back into vogue; Warren Buffett, one of the country's most successful capitalists, has wryly warned that his class is winning (even as he supports proposals to change the tax code).
But his wife, Terri Jo, said that were he well enough, he surely would be reaching out to his friends in both parties, gently urging a return to a time when the term "partisan warfare" was best used to describe that deepest of Florida conflicts, Gators versus Seminoles.
How ironic, then, is the current Orwellian twist on the term "class warfare".
