16 Metaphors for warfare

" Now, warfare is the negation of association.

Europe, for instance, had its unmistakable Heroic Age when it was fighting with the Moslem, whether that warfare was a cause or merely an accompaniment.

The present German submarine warfare against commerce is a warfare against mankind.

Then, indeed, warfare would become a blessing undisguised, and we could freely join the poet in calling carnage God's daughter.

Guerrilla warfare is not perhaps a respectable method of fighting.

The great standing warfare of modern times is constitutional authority against the absolute power of kings and emperors.

"THE END OF THE WORLD" An officer who was wounded in the fighting thus vividly describes the battle of Neuve Chapelle: "Modern warfare is such an infernal business that any man who is not killed ought to be cheerful.

[Footnote 36: The warfare of the Ottomans in India is a curious episode in their history, which has attracted but little notice from European writers.

For within the territorial limits of any great and permanent state, the tendency is for warfare to become the exception and peace the rule.

Of this style of fighting Taylor has truly said: "If war in certain of its aspects is a temporary reversion to barbarism, guerrilla warfare is a temporary reversion to savagery.

" In Flanders the rain has begun its winter session, and, as a military humorist put it, trench warfare is becoming a constant drain.

When he died, worn out by his herculean labors, the nobles tried to regain the privileges and powers they had lost, and a miserable warfare called the "Fronde" was the result, carried on without genius or system.

And so between these separate social aggregates arises the feeling of Ishmael and the spirit of Cain, warfare becomes the chronic and seemingly natural relation of societies to each other, and the powers of men are expended in attack or defense, in mutual slaughter and mutual destruction of wealth, or in warlike preparations.

Warfare is always a rude trade, and men on all sides who have had to engage in it must feel at the end how much there is to be forgiven and needing forgiveness; how much now appears harsh, unfair, violent, which once appeared only necessary and just.

Modern warfare is an insanity, not a sane business proposition.

Modern warfare has become in its simplest expression the intelligent application of force, and that side will successfully overcome or resist the other which can in the shortest time so direct the greater force.

16 Metaphors for  warfare