war hawk

It is not a decisive war, with a single, signature victory, but a war of attrition.

He distinguished himself in several campaigns, especially in the Peninsular war, and was raised to the rank of field marshal.

His 6,000 native auxiliaries (as it proved later on) could not be relied upon in a civil war.

"There is no more war," Brion translated for Ulv, realizing that the Disan had understood nothing of the explanation.

I cannot reconcile the idea of a tender Heavenly Father with the known horrors of war, slavery, pestilence, and insanity.

We were now masters of the whole country, and the war was apparently at an end.