When the officer is an accomplished student of war, leads boldly, and also savors gambling his own life, he acquires a mystique.
War leads to … stronger communities and societies that have delivered better governance, falling homicide rates, less domestic violence and greater riches".
What these phrases will mean for the Middle East, precisely, is hard to say, because war leads to so many unpredictable consequences.
A poem ostensibly about the Trojan War leads her to the following query: what if war is just a male version of dressing up, a game devised to avoid profound spiritual questions?
Does one give them "a break" by acting as though this is no big deal — by not wondering, if this is where war leads young men and women, if and when it is worth it?
The propertyless consent to such an establishment because their immediate fear of a Hobbesian state of war leads them to fail to attend to the ways in which the new state will systematically disadvantage them.
