Kim Coakley’s Reviews > A Philosophy of War: Why We Fight > Status Update
Kim Coakley
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‘Global war’ - Terrorist acts by ‘global’ enemy with no fixed national identity symbolic > goal is the act > need to respond with tanglible result (illusory assassinations) > ‘counterterrorism plus’ less boots on ground > ‘interventions’ by coalition of state (air strike/ground troop > security vacuum > counter-insurgency > environment leading to ‘chaos creating wars’ by autocratic regimes
— Feb 11, 2026 05:59AM
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Kim Coakley
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Proscription of the word ward by word leaders
A war consisting of an ‘exchange of death’
Manichaeism - good v evil
War has to be seen as a reaction to injustice, a defensive act or it is referenced as raids, pillages
Capitalisation - surender
‘War died in Hiroshima’
Guerilla techniques - permanent state of insecurity
Cold War / proxy wars
— Feb 10, 2026 12:19AM
A war consisting of an ‘exchange of death’
Manichaeism - good v evil
War has to be seen as a reaction to injustice, a defensive act or it is referenced as raids, pillages
Capitalisation - surender
‘War died in Hiroshima’
Guerilla techniques - permanent state of insecurity
Cold War / proxy wars
