The 2008 report likewise draws upon our fear of terrorism and the emerging 'other' to prepare us for (and justify) perpetual warfare over resources and markets, which the 2009 report implies is basically inevitable and thus quite predictable (i.e., not particularly noteworthy).
Other ecological cues may be equally important, such as the presence of coalitional warfare or resource scarcity, which might increase the negative sentiments elicited by newcomers (Sosis et al. 2007).
Whenever warfare occupies the resources of the state, there is less support for the arts, less patronage available for poets.
The increasing scale of warfare and the greater resources available to the besieger accelerated this development, and systems of outworks grew more and more elaborate and sprawling as a means of slowing the attacker's progress and making it more costly.
It is hard enough for businesses to switch wholesale to a new strategy without encountering resistance from managers who have tied their reputations to the old one; maintaining different teams working simultaneously on opposing strategies is a recipe for internecine warfare, and for wasting resources as the firm is pulled in opposing directions.
As the impacts of climate change become more apparent in the coming decades and people become increasingly desperate, violent approaches like guerrilla warfare, armed seizures of resources, targeted assassinations, and bombings, will become necessary tactics in the pursuit of any political revolt.
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Michael Gove may decry criticism of British leadership as an "out-of-touch elite", but aerial photographs have proved that while the German defence had constructed concrete bunkers four deep, as late as 1916 old Oxford cavalrymen like Haig – drawn from class not qualification – desisted from resourcing trench warfare, insisting that a breakthrough was still possible.
The U.S. can find the resources for endless warfare, but not for nation-building here at home.
"I wouldn't call it petty infighting, I'd call it philosophical warfare," said Michael Ludwig, an aquatic resources specialist who worked on Sound issues for three decades for the National Marine Fisheries Service before going into private consulting last year.
