What was the plan of campaign and the degree of preparedness of the principal belligerent in the second Balkan war which was about to commence?

It was evident that it was to be a "dictated peace" and not a "negotiated peace," a peace dictated by the Great Powers not only to the enemy, but also to their fellow belligerents.

There were more rations issued to Spanish than to American soldiers, until the division of the Philippine Expedition with Major-General Otis arrived, but the Americans were exclusively responsible for the preservation of the peace between the implacable belligerents, and the sanitary work required could not at once be accomplished, but presently it was visible that something was done every day in the right direction.

In other words, that the Bolsheviks were to be recognised as legitimate belligerents, with whom it was quite possible to shake hands and sit down to draw up an agreement as to the proper method of conducting a policy of rapine, robbery, and murder.

The strategic command of the sea in a particular war or campaign has equal concern for all maritime belligerents.

It is possible that if it were a new and open question the maritime powers, with the lights they now enjoy, would not concede the privileges of a naval belligerent to the insurgents of the United States, destitute, as they are, and always have been, equally of ships of war and of ports and harbors.

During the century of warfare that existed between the English and French colonies, the savage tribes were important agents in furthering the views of the respective belligerents.

What mattered it whether the triumphant belligerents were called "Colonies" or "States" so long as they were free?

It is an ill-equipped and planless belligerent who must destroy whatever he captures because he can neither use nor take away.

No less indicative is it of a new world that the allowance laws of all the western belligerents recognize common-law marriages.