#waged

I don't think the war in Afghanistan was ruthlessly enough waged. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

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#enough #i #ruthlessly #think #waged

With no other security forces on hand, U.S. military was left to confront, almost alone, an Iraqi insurgency and a crime rate that grew worse throughout the year, waged in part by soldiers of the disbanded army and in part by criminals who were released from prison. ↗

— John Spratt

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#alone #army #confront #crime #crime rate

Except when war is waged in a desert, noncombatants, also known as civilians or "the people," constitute the great majority of those affected. ↗

— Martin Van Creveld

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#also #civilians #constitute #desert #except