limit our understanding

Americans make a sharp distinction between what we define as “war” and what we consider “peace.” We commonly limit our understanding of war as being the violent use of arms in support of policy. Put another way, if there is shooting, we are engaged in war. If there is no shooting, we are not at war. Pentagon thinkers therefore coined the strange acronym MOOTW (military operations other than war)[4] as a catch-all for “not-war” military activities; a more recent term is MISO (military information support operations) ufabet