Sentence examples for war knowledge from inspiring English sources

The title of John Keegan's anecdotal and often cursory new book "Intelligence in War: Knowledge of the Enemy From Napoleon to Al-Qaeda" is highly misleading.

Gen. John Bankhead Magruder, commanding Confederate forces on the Virginia Peninsula, had witnessed how the Russians used mines during the Crimean War, knowledge he likely deepened in the late 1850s, when he was posted to Washington alongside his brother George, the chief of the Navy's ordnance bureau.

During the First and Second World Wars, knowledge about personnel protective gear was limited to the use of steel.

In the second world war his knowledge of them had saved him from deploying with the marines.

During the four decades of the Cold War, the knowledge that the United States would come to their defense allowed the Europeans to focus on building their miracle.

And here he went back into the songbook of his childhood: epics from the history of the Manding empire and stories of local families, songs of war and knowledge and advice.

Blair, Straw and to a lesser extent Falconer were responsible for countless tiny cuts to this principle – and in other areas, as in the decision to go to war, the knowledge of rendition and MI5's collusion in torture sessions – for instance in the interrogation of Binyam Mohamed – have outraged standards set in international conventions and charters.

"If I can remove even one dollar of ill-gained income from a poisonous industry which acts to suppress scientific and historic understanding, then whatever personal cost I suffer will be justified [and] it will be one less dollar spent in the war against knowledge," he wrote.

This conservative "war against knowledge" is not exactly a new phenomenon.

Slowly but surely, Neidell is building the most expansive repository of World War I knowledge ever produced.

Viewers are also absorbing a war-mediated knowledge of news anchors.