Under the laws of civilized warfare we are empowered to reduce you to ashes should such resistance be forthcoming.

However, he insisted doing so did not violate the rules of civilized warfare.

Many of these operations involved acts that were considered, by the Union, to go beyond the normal conduct of "civilized" warfare.

He even said this "was not civilized warfare" but "extermination"

The only problem was how to set them loose in a manner not too blatantly contravening all the rules of civilized warfare.

Evidently Ivan had taught them at least the rudiments of civilized warfare.

Evidently Olgerd had taught them the rudiments of civilized warfare.

Muscles meant very little in modern, civilized warfare, however.

If nothing else, conflict in tribal societies can never achieve the absolute scale of civilized warfare.

He then, with utter disregard for the rules of civilized warfare, dispatched those who were not already dead.