Sentence examples for theory war from inspiring English sources

In theory, war is simply a means to an end, a rational, if very brutal, activity intended to serve the interests of one group of people by killing, wounding, or otherwise incapacitating those who oppose that group.

American youths are not soft or unwilling to fight, but perhaps they are unwilling to die for nonexistent weapons of mass destruction, domino theory, war profiteers, a neoliberal free-market economy in Iraq, Israel, oil and empire.

Are the theory wars over?

Both men agree the "heat and steam" has now largely gone out of the theory wars.

It seemed to crystallise the theory wars, in which new ideas - represented by MacCabe - were being thwarted by the fuddy-duddy Cambridge establishment.

Shakespeare, of course, has been a focus of the theory wars from the beginning: for those who believe in "the death of the author," he is the author whose dissolution into autonomous "discourses" was most devoutly to be wished.

In theory wars for liberty sound pretty grand.

These discussions have led to theories of just war, theories of reasonable self-defense and theories of proportionate punishment.

He has taught the law and theory of war at Bard College and Columbia University.

Much of the theory of war concerns itself with the identification, improvement, and development of these restraining factors.

In the Soviet Union the socialist theory of war changed as the new communist regime responded to changes in circumstances.