Yahweh's war campaign in Palestine validates Israel's entitlement to the land and provides a paradigm of how Israel was to live there: twelve tribes, with a designated leader, united by covenant in warfare and in worship of Yahweh alone at single sanctuary, all in obedience to the commands of Moses as found in Deuteronomy.

Within this statist paradigm, only the state and its appointed representatives were allowed to bear arms and enter into war.

Though Bat Ye ' or acknowledges that not all Muslims subscribe to so-called " militant jihad theories of society ," she argues that the role of sharia in the 1990 Cairo Declaration on Human Rights in Islam demonstrates that what she calls a perpetual war against those who won't submit to Islam is still an " operative paradigm " in Islamic countries.

It is probable, therefore, that the story of the Trojan War as reflected in the Homeric poems derives from a tradition of epic poetry founded on a war which actually took place.

In the aftermath of a war that had for the first time properly engaged Sartre in political matters, he set forth a body of work which " reflected on virtually every important theme of his early thought and began to explore alternative solutions to the problems posed there " ( Aronson 1980: 121 ).

This reflected a change in attitude amongst military planners that a land war in Europe was increasingly likely, and a turning away from Tirpitz's scheme for worldwide expansion using the navy.

This dispute reflected increasing tensions between Christian and Muslim communities over the distribution of political power, and would ultimately foment the outbreak of civil war in 1975.

In the decade following the war, the principal political conflicts within Paraguay reflected the Liberal-Colorado split, with Legionnaires battling Lopiztas ( ex-followers of Solano López ) for power, while Brazil and Argentina maneuvered in the background.

Trudeau reflected on his opposition to conscription and his doubts about the war in his Memoirs ( 1993 ): " So there was a war?

Photos of the plant taken from the air reflected devastation for the factory and a successful sabotage mission, and Chapman, as a British sabotage double-agent, fooled the Germans for the duration of the war.

Note that much of history from 1800-1950 is often not reflected well in general parlance as they are overshadowed by the ' big three ', games on other subjects in this era are often referred to by the actual war they deal with.

American war films produced during and just after the Vietnam War often reflected the disillusion of the American public towards the war.

Later war films like Catch-22 ( set in WWII ) and the black comedy MASH ( set in Korea ), reflected some of these attitudes.

" As for McCain, Eastwood reflected, " I voted for McCain, not because he was a Republican, but because he had been through war ( in Vietnam ) and I thought he might understand the war in Iraq better than somebody who hadn't.

This was reflected in the make-up of his five-member war cabinet, which included three Conservatives, Lord President of the Council and Leader of the House of Lords, Lord Curzon ; Chancellor of the Exchequer and Leader of the House of Commons, Andrew Bonar Law ; and Minister without Portfolio, Lord Milner.

Originally, the clock analogy represented the threat of global nuclear war ; however, since 2007 it has also reflected climate-changing technologies and " new developments in the life sciences that could inflict irrevocable harm.

Since in early July 1940 it was believed by both Hitler and Raeder that Britain would soon surrender, the decision to resume the Z Plan, which meant spending hundreds of millions of Reichsmarks building warships that would take at least five years to finish, reflected plans for an ultimate war with the United States.

The dispute about the “ tonnage war ” versus the “ commerce war ” reflected the differing concepts of the guerre de course versus the teachings of Mahan.

The American historian Charles Thomas wrote that Raeder's remarks about the executions in the Seekriegsleitung war diary seemed to be some sort of ironic comment in protest against the executions, which might have reflected a guilty conscience on the part of Raeder in enforcing a policy that he knew well to be illegal, and one that might lead him to being prosecuted for war crimes if Germany should lose the war.

During the war, he worked as railway labourer and dispatcher in Kostomlaty, near Nymburk, an experience reflected in one of his best-known works Ostře sledované vlaky ( Closely Observed Trains ).

Some aspects of the film do have documentary accuracy: the artwork, the ceremonial dances, the clothing, the architecture of the buildings, and the construction of the dugout, or a war canoe reflected Kwakwaka ' wakw culture.

It is a war to stay out of today, especially in view of the fact that President Ngo Dinh Diem apparently does not want United States troops.

One day when he attended a war memorial ceremony in Westminster Abbey his view was obstructed by a stout man on his left, his attention turned to the irregular pattern of the rough slab flooring and someone, clasping him by the arm, whispered, `` I want a word with you, please ''.

`` You see, first of all and in a sense as the source of all other ills, the unshakeable American commitment to the principle of unconditional surrender: The tendency to view any war in which we might be involved not as a means of achieving limited objectives in the way of changes in a given status quo, but as a struggle to the death between total virtue and total evil, with the result that the war had absolutely to be fought to the complete destruction of the enemy's power, no matter what disadvantages or complications this might involve for the more distant future ''.

Achilles ' role as the hero of grief forms an ironic juxtaposition with the conventional view of Achilles as the hero of kleos ( glory, usually glory in war ).

At the close of the war, Lincoln held a moderate view of Reconstruction, seeking to reunite the nation speedily through a policy of generous reconciliation in the face of lingering and bitter divisiveness.

The dispute was referred to Emperor Charles V and other princes, but as no settlement was reached Albert continued his efforts to obtain help in view of a renewal of the war.

The Germans ' view of themselves as the losers of the war may be linked to the senior and experienced officers ' undertaking a thorough review, studying, and rewriting of all their Army doctrine and training manuals.

Thus the view from Whitehall early in 1916: If defeat was not imminent, neither was victory ; and the outcome of the war of attrition on the Western Front could not be predicted.

He rejects the Enlightenment's view of the war as a chaotic muddle and instead explains its drawn-out operations by the economy and technology of the age, the social characteristics of the troops, and the commanders ' politics and psychology.

The PDFLP's original political orientation was based on the view that Palestinian national goals could be achieved only through revolution of the masses and " people's war ".

Orwell was opposed to rearmament against Nazi Germany — but he changed his view after the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact and the outbreak of the war.

In view of the Ottoman fleet's superiority in speed and broadside weight, the Greek planners expected it to sortie from the straits early in the war.

In view of Hannibal's great popularity, the Carthaginian government did not repudiate Hannibal's actions, and the war he sought was declared at the end of the year.

Many Indians view the war as a betrayal of India's attempts at establishing a long-standing peace with China and started to question Nehru's usage of the term " Hindi-Chini bhai-bhai " ( meaning " Indians and Chinese are brothers ").

From the British point of view, it was regarded as highly desirable to keep Romania and its oil out of German hands ; since Germany had hardly any natural supplies of oil, the ability of the Royal Navy to successfully impose a blockade represented a British trump card both to deter war, and if necessary, win a war.

Even if the British were serious in their warnings of war, Ribbentrop took the view that since a war with Britain was inevitable, the risk of a war with Britain was an acceptable one and accordingly he argued that Germany should not shy away from such challenges.

Relations between Morocco and Mauritania continued to improve through 1986, reflecting President Taya's pragmatic, if unstated, view that only a Moroccan victory over the Polisario would end the guerrilla war in the Western Sahara.

The Electress demanded in no uncertain terms that the Queen Dowager should prevent her son's journey, as " being prejudicial to Brandenburg's interests in view of the state of war existing between Sweden and Poland ".

The " dualism " of Clausewitz's view of war ( i. e., that wars can vary a great deal between the two " poles " he proposed, based on the political objectives of the opposing sides and the context ) seems simple enough, but few commentators have proven willing to accept this crucial variability — they insist that Clausewitz " really " argued for one end of the scale or the other.

Rather, the Trinity of forces that drive the course of real-world war in Clausewitz's view are 1 ) violent emotion, 2 ) the interplay of chance and probability, and 3 ) political calculations driven by reason.