When officials of a government, or any organization. Exceeds and abuses their position of authority for the intent of personal gain. Eg. I’m a government official in charge of highway repair. I award a repair contractor with a $2 million dollar road repair contract. Providing he builds me a mile long driveway to one of my houses for free. By concealing the cost of my driveway into the highway repair contract.
When officials of a government, or any organization. Exceeds and abuses their position of authority for the intent of personal gain. Eg. I’m a government official in charge of highway repair. I award a repair contractor with a $2 million dollar road repair contract. Providing he builds me a mile long driveway to one of my houses for free. By concealing the cost of my driveway into the highway repair contract.
A state of beligerance between two nations, or a metaphor for a concerted effort to fight a national threat.
We can talk about war between nations. War between city-states. War between Homo Erectus (humans) and Neanderthals. All of these involve arms and more than one person fighting.
We can also use it as a metaphor, as in the War on Drugs. Or a war on truth. Or a war on the dollar. These lack the usual parts that Von Klauswitz made in his observation that war is diplomacy by other means.
To get a conventional war to end, diplomacy must resume. And war becomes a possibility when diplomacy breaks down.
But if you want to mobilize America to fight drugs, you call it a war on drugs. It allows you to use Navy and Air Force resources to interdict drug transportation. It is not a real war because you cannot negotiate with drug dealers. Some would also say the war on terror is similar.
MBC Mudasir Bedar Chandio the writer and researcher.
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