It was also meant to serve as a symbol of a European identity, an identity intended to move the continent beyond centuries of warfare and toward unprecedented harmony.
We will know their leadership by how they move us away from the precipice of continual warfare and toward a consciousness of collective responsibility.
Even for scholars focused on the plight of former slaves and Indians, Grant left a problematic legacy and, with changing attitudes toward warfare after the end of the Vietnam War, Grant's military reputation suffered again.
They also have a fondness for ethnic warfare that inches toward genocide and long to establish an Islamic caliphate which naturally inspires hatred and fear all over the world.
If you didn't browse the comments when I posted about M.F.A. programs last month, you really should: they veered quickly and entertainingly toward gang warfare, with the Crips arguing against such programs and the Bloods arguing for them.
Petraeus, too, is a loyal Army man, but he has distinctive views about military doctrine; he has long advocated a change in orientation by the Army, away from preparations for formal warfare between governments and toward the challenges of counter-insurgency and nation building.
The trend in warfare today is toward smaller, smarter, more effective precision-guided weapons.
Ethologists start with the persuasive argument that study of animal warfare may contribute toward an understanding of war as employed by man.
As the Distinguished Warfare medal heads toward production, more than 13,000 people have signed an online petition demanding that the status of the medal be revised.
It illustrates the underlying fear that when energies that should be directed toward warfare are diverted into passion, unity is impossible.
In one version of this account, typical Germans are cast as unwitting victims of an unparalleled propaganda campaign (and thus also come to represent a cautionary tale of how media manipulators can redirect an innocent society toward warfare and genocide).
