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1 day ago · This normal pattern for warfare begins with suing the enemy for peace. A rejection of that offer would result in siege warfare with the goal of putting to death the enemy militants—all males. Women, children, and livestock, however, are taken as the spoils of war. It is recognized in this command that it is Yahweh who has granted victory.
Aug 22, 2024 · Steve Coll’s new book looks at the hubris and delusions of American foreign-policy makers and counterparts in the Middle East that led to a war that still haunts the globe.
Sep 5, 2024 · Israeli rabbi urges IDF soldiers to refrain from taking ‘spoils of war’ in Gaza Citing biblical precedents, Aviner referenced the Book of Esther (9:10, 15, 16), highlighting that after their ...
5 days ago · Wartime sexual violence is rape or other forms of sexual violence committed by combatants during an armed conflict, war, or military occupation often as spoils of war, but sometimes, particularly in ethnic conflict, the phenomenon has broader sociological motives.
Aug 16, 2024 · Early on the morning of 16 July 1648, during the very last stage of the Thirty Years' War, a Swedish force numbering one hundred men scaled the city walls of Prague. The soldiers managed to take the guards by surprise, and were soon joined by 3000 men from the outside in plundering the city.
4 days ago · The Trojan War was a legendary conflict in Greek mythology that took place around the 12th or 13th century BC. The war was waged by the Achaeans (Greeks) against the city of Troy after Paris of Troy took Helen from her husband Menelaus, king of Sparta.
Aug 16, 2024 · German-Soviet Nonaggression Pact, pact signed on August 23, 1939, between Germany and the Soviet Union that was concluded a few days before the beginning of World War II and which divided eastern Europe into German and Soviet spheres of influence.
