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In fact, this is the only war in American history in which the government negotiated a peace by conceding everything demanded by the enemy.
Terrorism is basically taking an innocent stranger and treating them as an enemy whom you kill in order to create fear.
However, in October 2017, she faced a different enemy, when online trolls viciously attacked the photograph that showed the 20-year-old wearing jeans that day.
And the army took them, and instead of bringing them to the police station, they brought them to an enemy favela where they get chopped into pieces.
The enemy didn't break a sweat doing it.
I went down to be with a Ranger platoon on an operation in Afghanistan, and on that operation, a sergeant in the platoon had lost about half his arm throwing a Taliban hand grenade back at the enemy after it had landed in his fire team.
You may know one line of it, it says, "I'll never leave a fallen comrade to fall into the hands of the enemy."
So you can't see the enemy most of the time, and as a result, we've needed a very different approach to eradicate polio than what was done with smallpox.
So Europe is not just an example now to emulate; it's an enemy to fight and to resist.
Fear is the enemy of play.
This is not a reputation you would wish on your worst enemy.
Yet, what you'll never hear from spokespeople from the Pentagon or the French Department of Defence is that the question isn't really who's the enemy, but actually the very nature of cyber weapons.
The first issue: Imagine a potential enemy announcing they're building a cyberwar unit, but only for their country's defense.
And if the defender retaliates against the wrong adversary, they risk making one more enemy and ending up diplomatically isolated.
So to sum up, on the one hand, when a possible enemy announces they're building a cyberwar unit, you don't know whether it's for attack or defense.
In this context, when you don't know if the potential enemy is preparing for defense or attack, and if the weapons give an advantage to attacking, then this environment is most likely to spark a conflict.
Here was an army that had just had experience in the First World War, where millions of men fought each other in the trenches, getting nowhere, making no progress, and here someone had come up with a device that allowed them to fly up in the skies high above enemy territory and destroy whatever they wanted with pinpoint accuracy.
And they make every one of those bombardiers take an oath, to swear that if they're ever captured, they will not divulge a single detail of this particular device to the enemy, because it's imperative the enemy not get their hands on this absolutely essential piece of technology.
And there's a little incendiary device inside of it, so that, if the plane ever crashes, it will be destroyed and there's no way the enemy can ever get their hands on it.
Our enemy is thoughtlessness.
That was when the enemy was outside the walls.
Now the enemy is inside the walls.
The advent of the interconnectedness and of the weapons of mass destruction means that, increasingly, I share a destiny with my enemy.
We have to get off of oil purchased from the enemy.
It's a pair of earmuffs and a set of safety goggles that have been masked over except for two small pinholes, because distraction is the competitive memorizer's greatest enemy.
So, if you have a ham butt problem, and you're thinking about the ham butt problem, the conclusion that it leads you to is inexorable and counterintuitive: paper is the enemy of words.
(Shooting noises) The name of the game is to get after your enemy zombie bad guys before they get to you, right?
His idea of jihad was a global war of terror, primarily targeted at the far enemy, at the crusaders from the West, against America.
Opinion polls from all over the Muslim world show that there is very little interest among Muslims in a global holy war against the West, against the far enemy.
Occasionally they will go across a border, from Iraq to Syria, from Mali to Algeria, from Somalia to Kenya, but they're not fighting a global jihad against some far enemy.
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