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War as metaphor, the Glossary

The use of war as metaphor is a longstanding literary and rhetorical trope.^[1]

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Metaphors referring to war and violence

The Arena Football League (AFL) was a professional arena football league in the United States.

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Aviation

Aviation includes the activities surrounding mechanical flight and the aircraft industry.

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Barack Obama

Barack Hussein Obama II (born August 4, 1961) is an American politician who served as the 44th president of the United States from 2009 to 2017.

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Boris Johnson

Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson (born 19 June 1964) is a British politician and writer who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and Leader of the Conservative Party from 2019 to 2022.

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Car

A car, or an automobile, is a motor vehicle with wheels.

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Chelsea Manning

Chelsea Elizabeth Manning (born Bradley Edward Manning, December 17, 1987) is an American activist and whistleblower.

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Christmas controversies

Christmas is the celebration of the birth of Jesus Christ, which, in Western Christian churches, is held annually on 25 December.

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The Cold War was a period of geopolitical tension between the United States and the Soviet Union and their respective allies, the Western Bloc and the Eastern Bloc, that started in 1947, two years after the end of World War II, and lasted until the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991.

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COVID-19 pandemic

The COVID-19 pandemic (also known as the coronavirus pandemic), caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), began with an outbreak of COVID-19 in Wuhan, China, in December 2019.

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Cultural Revolution

The Cultural Revolution, formally known as the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, was a sociopolitical movement in the People's Republic of China (PRC).

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Culture war

In political science, a culture war is a type of cultural conflict between different social groups who struggle to politically impose their own ideology (moral beliefs, humanistic virtues, religious practices) upon mainstream society.

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David Leigh (journalist)

David Leigh is a British journalist and writer who was the investigations editor of The Guardian and is the author of Investigative Journalism: a survival guide.

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Disinformation

Disinformation is false information deliberately spread to deceive people.

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Donald Trump

Donald John Trump (born June 14, 1946) is an American politician, media personality, and businessman who served as the 45th president of the United States from 2017 to 2021.

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El Salvador

El Salvador, officially the Republic of El Salvador, is a country in Central America.

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Emmanuel Macron

Emmanuel Jean-Michel Frédéric Macron (born 21 December 1977) is a French politician who has been serving as the 25th president of France since 2017 and ex officio one of the two Co-Princes of Andorra.

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Emu

The emu (Dromaius novaehollandiae) is a species of flightless bird endemic to Australia, where it is the tallest native bird.

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Emu War

The Emu War (or Great Emu War) was a nuisance wildlife management military operation undertaken in Australia over the later part of 1932 to address public concern over the number of emus said to be destroying crops in the Campion district within the Wheatbelt of Western Australia.

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George W. Bush

George Walker Bush (born July 6, 1946) is an American politician and businessman who served as the 43rd president of the United States from 2001 to 2009.

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Graffiti

Graffiti (plural; singular graffiti or graffito, the latter rarely used except in archeology) is writing or drawings made on a wall or other surface, usually without permission and within public view.

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Inter arma enim silent leges

Inter arma enim silent leges is a Latin phrase that literally means "For among arms, the laws are silent" but is more popularly rendered as "In times of war, the law falls silent.".

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J. Edgar Hoover

John Edgar Hoover (January 1, 1895 – May 2, 1972) was an American law-enforcement administrator who served as the final Director of the Bureau of Investigation (BOI) and the first Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).

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James Childress

James Franklin Childress (born October 4, 1940) is a philosopher and theologian whose scholarship addresses ethics, particularly biomedical ethics.

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Jimmy Carter

James Earl Carter Jr. (born October 1, 1924) is an American politician and humanitarian who served as the 39th president of the United States from 1977 to 1981.

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Julian Assange

Julian Paul Assange (Hawkins; born 3 July 1971) is an Australian editor, publisher, and activist who founded WikiLeaks in 2006.

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Kyriakos Mitsotakis

Kyriakos Mitsotakis (Κυριάκος Μητσοτάκης,; born 4 March 1968) is a Greek politician currently serving as the prime minister of Greece since July 2019, except for a month between May and June 2023.

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Law and order (politics)

In modern politics, "law and order" is an ideological approach focusing on harsher enforcement and penalties as ways to reduce crime.

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Lin Biao

Lin Biao (林彪; 5 December 1907 – 13 September 1971) was a Chinese politician and Marshal of the People's Republic of China who was pivotal in the Communist victory during the Chinese Civil War, especially in Northeast China from 1946 to 1949.

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Luke Harding

Luke Daniel Harding (born 21 April 1968) is a British journalist who is a foreign correspondent for The Guardian.

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Lyndon B. Johnson

Lyndon Baines Johnson (August 27, 1908January 22, 1973), often referred to by his initials LBJ, was an American politician who served as the 36th president of the United States from 1963 to 1969.

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A metaphor is a figure of speech that, for rhetorical effect, directly refers to one thing by mentioning another.

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Metaphors We Live By is a book by George Lakoff and Mark Johnson published in 1980.

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Michael Schoenhals

Michael Schoenhals (born 1953) is a Swedish sinologist, specializing in the society of modern China.

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Militarization of police

The militarization of police (paramilitarization of police in some media) is the use of military equipment and tactics by law enforcement officers.

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National Association of Police Organizations

The National Association of Police Organizations (NAPO) represents police and law enforcement officers, police unions and local police officer associations across the United States.

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National Endowment for Democracy

The National Endowment for Democracy (NED) is a quasi-autonomous non-governmental organization in the United States founded in 1983 with the stated aim of advancing democracy worldwide, by promoting political and economic institutions, such as political groups, trade unions, free markets, and business groups.

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Nayib Bukele

Nayib Armando Bukele Ortez (born 24 July 1981) is a Salvadoran politician and businessman who has been the 81st president of El Salvador since 1 June 2019.

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Orlando Predators

The Orlando Predators are a professional arena football team based in Orlando, Florida and member of the Arena Football League (AFL).

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Postmodernism

Postmodernism is a term used to refer to a variety of artistic, cultural, and philosophical movements that claim to mark a break with modernism.

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Presidency of Barack Obama

Barack Obama's tenure as the 44th president of the United States began with his first inauguration on January 20, 2009, and ended on January 20, 2017.

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President of the United States

The president of the United States (POTUS) is the head of state and head of government of the United States of America.

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Proxy war

In political science, a proxy war is as an armed conflict fought between two belligerents, wherein one belligerent is a non-state actor supported by an external third-party power.

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Psychological warfare

Psychological warfare (PSYWAR), or the basic aspects of modern psychological operations (PsyOp), has been known by many other names or terms, including Military Information Support Operations (MISO), Psy Ops, political warfare, "Hearts and Minds", and propaganda.

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Radley Balko

Radley Prescott Balko (born April 19, 1975) is an American journalist, author, blogger, and speaker who writes about criminal justice, the drug war, and civil liberties.

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Reuters

Reuters is a news agency owned by Thomson Reuters.

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Rob Ford

Robert Bruce Ford (May 28, 1969 – March 22, 2016) was a Canadian politician and businessman who served as the 64th mayor of Toronto from 2010 to 2014.

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Robert Greenwald

Robert Greenwald (born August 28, 1945) is an American filmmaker, and the founder of Brave New Films, a nonprofit film and advocacy organization whose work is distributed for free in concert with nonprofit partners and movements in order to educate and mobilize for progressive causes.

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Royal Society of Literature

The Royal Society of Literature (RSL) is a learned society founded in 1820, by King George IV, to "reward literary merit and excite literary talent".

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Science

Science is a strict systematic discipline that builds and organizes knowledge in the form of testable hypotheses and predictions about the world.

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Scott Walker (politician)

Scott Kevin Walker (born November 2, 1967) is an American politician who served as the 45th governor of Wisconsin from 2011 to 2019.

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September 11 attacks

The September 11 attacks, commonly known as 9/11, were four coordinated Islamist terrorist suicide attacks carried out by al-Qaeda against the United States in 2001.

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Simon Jenkins

Sir Simon David Jenkins FLSW (born 10 June 1943) is a British author, a newspaper columnist and editor.

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Soviet Union

The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), commonly known as the Soviet Union, was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991.

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State of emergency

A state of emergency is a situation in which a government is empowered to put through policies that it would normally not be permitted to do, for the safety and protection of its citizens.

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State of exception

A state of exception (Ausnahmezustand) is a concept introduced in the 1920s by the German philosopher and jurist Carl Schmitt, similar to a state of emergency (martial law) but based in the sovereign's ability to transcend the rule of law in the name of the public good.

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State of the Union

The State of the Union Address (sometimes abbreviated to SOTU) is an annual message delivered by the president of the United States to a joint session of the United States Congress near the beginning of most calendar years on the current condition of the nation.

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Superpower

Superpower describes a sovereign state or supranational union that holds a dominant position characterized by the ability to exert influence and project power on a global scale.

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Sveriges Radio

Sveriges Radio AB ("Sweden's Radio") is Sweden's national publicly funded radio broadcaster.

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Tampa Bay Storm

The Tampa Bay Storm were a professional arena football team based in Tampa, Florida, US.

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Ted Cruz

Rafael Edward Cruz (born December 22, 1970) is an American politician, attorney, and political commentator serving as the junior United States senator from Texas since 2013.

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The Guardian

The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.

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The Heritage Foundation

The Heritage Foundation, sometimes referred to simply as "Heritage", is an activist American conservative think tank based in Washington, D.C. Founded in 1973, it took a leading role in the conservative movement in the 1980s during the presidency of Ronald Reagan, whose policies were taken from Heritage Foundation studies, including its Mandate for Leadership.

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The War on Democracy

The War on Democracy is a 2007 documentary film directed by Christopher Martin and John Pilger, who also wrote the narration.

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The War Within

The War Within may refer to.

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The Washington Post

The Washington Post, locally known as "the Post" and, informally, WaPo or WP, is an American daily newspaper published in Washington, D.C., the national capital.

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Thierry Breton

Thierry Breton (born 15 January 1955) is a French business executive, politician, writer and the current Commissioner for Internal Market of the European Union.

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Toronto

Toronto is the most populous city in Canada and the capital city of the Canadian province of Ontario.

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Trade war

A trade war is an economic conflict often resulting from extreme protectionism in which states raise or create tariffs or other trade barriers against each other in response to trade barriers created by the other party. War as metaphor and trade war are metaphors referring to war and violence.

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Trope (literature)

A literary trope is the use of figurative language, via word, phrase or an image, for artistic effect such as using a figure of speech.

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UnHerd

UnHerd is a British news and opinion website founded in July 2017, which describes itself as a platform for slow journalism.

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United States

The United States of America (USA or U.S.A.), commonly known as the United States (US or U.S.) or America, is a country primarily located in North America.

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War

War is an armed conflict between the armed forces of states, or between governmental forces and armed groups that are organized under a certain command structure and have the capacity to sustain military operations, or between such organized groups.

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War of ideas

In the political field, a war of ideas is a confrontation among the ideologies that nations and political groups use to promote their domestic and foreign interests.

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War on cancer

The "war on cancer" is the effort to find a cure for cancer by increased research to improve the understanding of cancer biology and the development of more effective cancer treatments, such as targeted drug therapies. War as metaphor and War on cancer are metaphors referring to war and violence.

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War on coal

In the United States, the war on coal is a phrase used by the coal industry and its supporters to describe what they claim was an effort by the Obama administration to impose stringent regulations on coal power in the United States and thereby make such power uneconomical. War as metaphor and war on coal are metaphors referring to war and violence.

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War on drugs

The war on drugs is the policy of a global campaign, led by the United States federal government, of drug prohibition, military aid, and military intervention, with the aim of reducing the illegal drug trade in the United States. War as metaphor and war on drugs are metaphors referring to war and violence.

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War on gangs

In the United States, the war on gangs is a national movement to reduce gang-related activity, gang violence, and gang drug involvement on the local, state, and federal level. War as metaphor and war on gangs are metaphors referring to war and violence and politics of the United States.

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The War on I–4 was a rivalry between the Tampa Bay Storm and the Orlando Predators in the Arena Football League.

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War on Islam controversy

War against Islam is a term used to describe a concerted effort to harm, weaken or annihilate the societal system of Islam, using military, economic, social and cultural means, or means invading and interfering in Islamic countries under the pretext of the war on terror, or using the media to create a negative stereotype about Islam.

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War on poverty

The war on poverty is the unofficial name for legislation first introduced by United States President Lyndon B. Johnson during his State of the Union Address on January 8, 1964. War as metaphor and war on poverty are metaphors referring to war and violence.

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War on terror

The war on terror, officially the Global War on Terrorism (GWOT), is a global counterterrorist military campaign initiated by the United States following the September 11 attacks and is the most recent global conflict spanning multiple wars. War as metaphor and war on terror are metaphors referring to war and violence.

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War on Want

War on Want is an anti-poverty charity based in London.

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War on Whistleblowers: Free Press and the National Security State

War on Whistleblowers: Free Press and the National Security State is a 66-minute documentary by Robert Greenwald and Brave New Foundation, released in 2013.

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War on women

"War on women" is a slogan in United States politics used to describe certain Republican Party policies and legislation as a wide-scale effort to restrict women's rights, especially reproductive rights, including abortion. War as metaphor and War on women are metaphors referring to war and violence and politics of the United States.

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WikiLeaks

WikiLeaks is a non-profit media organisation and publisher of leaked documents.

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WikiLeaks: Inside Julian Assange's War on Secrecy

WikiLeaks: Inside Julian Assange's War on Secrecy is a 2011 book by British journalists David Leigh and Luke Harding.

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1973 oil crisis

In October 1973, the Organization of Arab Petroleum Exporting Countries (OAPEC) announced that it was implementing a total oil embargo against the countries who had supported Israel at any point during the 1973 Yom Kippur War, which began after Egypt and Syria launched a large-scale surprise attack in an ultimately unsuccessful attempt to recover the territories that they had lost to Israel during the 1967 Six-Day War.

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References

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Metaphors referring to war and violence

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