Who do you call a civilian in a guerilla war? I mean, it might be a farmer by day or a merchant, a housewife, and by night the housewife may be helping to make landmines and booby traps and who knows.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Except when war is waged in a desert, noncombatants, also known as civilians or 'the people,' constitute the great majority of those affected.
I always played a soldier, sailor, or policemen.
My own grandfathers were a submarine commander and a 'desert rats' tank operator in the Second World War.
What are individuals in wars today? Expendable commodities, dead or alive.
For heaven's sake, when you see the enemy attacking, you pick up the pitchfork, and you enlist everybody you see. You don't stand around arguing about who's responsible, or who's going to pay.
War may be an armed angel with a mission, but she has the personal habits of the slums.
The American Army has supplied, assigned a very capable man to me, to help me, bring me to military justice. I don't think I need no civilians. All I want to do is clear myself with the American Army.
Do you know what a soldier is, young man? He's the chap who makes it possible for civilised folk to despise war.
When we were talking about this, an idea for this master vigilante, it was an urban guerilla. One of my ideas was that he would be a member of the police force who turned on the government.
You've got to forget about this civilian. Whenever you drop bombs, you're going to hit civilians.