But the result of this universalization or "worlding" ("mondialisation" is the French word for globalization) is that the concept of war, and thus of world war, of enemy, and even of terrorism, along with the distinctions between civilian and military or between army, police, and militia, all of these concepts and distinctions are losing their pertinence.
Mods have been written for some of the most popular PC games, including Half-Life 2, Gears of War, Enemy Territory: Quake Wars and Unreal Tournament.
In 1936 the Air Ministry, the British government department responsible for the Royal Air Force, believed that in the event of war enemy aerial bombing of London would cause up to 200,000 casualties per week.
No matter how close they each get (in their own ways) to Gin, Toad, and their children, Antonio and John are prisoners of war -- enemies of the state.
Under international laws of war, enemy fighters may be detained without trial until the end of hostilities.
It is a law of war that the names of enemy dead be sent back through a neutral country to their homeland.
After the first routine stop, Lam's lead helicopter became separated from the other four, which strayed too far west into what a senior U.S. officer would later call the war's heaviest concentration of enemy antiaircraft guns.
The booklet's passage on prisoners of war says "the killing of women, children and priests who do not participate at all in the war and who do not directly or indirectly assist the enemy, is forbidden; Islam likewise forbids the torture and brutalization of prisoners of war and the mutilation of enemy wounded and dead".
Meanwhile, Mr. Bush's aides and Pentagon officials describe what is going on as a war of attrition, against enemies whose resources are being depleted, suggesting they will eventually run out of steam.
This sounds oddly quaint in an age when the battles more than ever before are global and involve a war of ideas, which enemies of America have already projected into the heart of a slew of American communities.
Cascade was a success; by the end of the war the enemy accepted most of the formations as real.
