Word: warlord
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...great age of the conspicuous helmet began around the middle of the 16th century, when the old pattern of warfare--a field of small semichivalric duels between single combatants--gave way to clashes of massed troops under the command of daimyo, or warlords, who had conscripted them from their estates. These armies could be enormous, siphoning up the manpower of whole provinces. In his last major battle in 1590, the warlord Hideyoshi led 100,000 men at the climax of a five-month siege...
...greatest danger is not the playground bully but something far worse: the possibility of being kidnapped and sold to a local warlord who fancies young boys. In Afghanistan, where a premium is placed on women's honor and chastity, young boys are often considered fair game for sex. Indeed, according to Ahmed Rashid, a Pakistani author and expert on the Taliban's rise, the religious movement, with its strict emphasis on law and order, started in the early 1990s after a drunken commander picked up one of Mullah Mohammed Omar's young seminarians and performed a mock, public wedding with...
...idea that you can be a Lebanese national, that you don’t have to be the traditional warlord in order to succeed and in order to make a difference, it’s going to give a lot of encouragement to the future generation of politicians,” Bodine said...
Stanley Bing is among our best corporate-war correspondents because he's in the trenches. By day, he toils for a media warlord, sparring with corporate enemies, many of whom seem to be co-workers. He takes names and then, turning to his guise as a columnist at FORTUNE, kicks butt in print. In Sun Tzu Was a Sissy, Bing unloads on the famed Chinese strategist whose treatise, The Art of War, launched a thousand battles in China centuries ago--and a million management books in the past decade purporting to adapt Tzu's sublime Eastern battle philosophy to winning...
...Iraq holds free elections in January, whom will Iraqis vote for? Will it be a warlord who pledges to kill every infidel American on Iraqi soil? Does the Administration expect us to believe that the Iraqi people are going to vote for moderates interested in normalized relations with the West? If Bush is re-elected in November, at least those voting against him will be able to take solace in knowing that he has run out of people to blame for this debacle. Joel Yanovich Los Angeles...