If one continued the military metaphor here, the armies, whether physical or virtual, need intelligence.

The military metaphor is not inappropriate: the tax collector's job can get quite hairy.

The reality may well be that the enterprise is not competitive enough but the military metaphor is a way of bringing about this attitude.

Explicitly using a military metaphor, they promoted early detection and prompt medical intervention as every woman's duty in the war on cancer.

The military metaphor of the bunker, with its defensive aura, is hard to miss.

To the best of my knowledge, he never asked for a cease-fire, to continue the military metaphor, nor did he ever ask for peace talks.

The fortifications had been breached, to continue the military metaphor, and Cynthia charged right through.

She says boys are interested in more than the "military metaphors" that many computer games offer.

Strange, how she had come to think in military metaphors during the past few days.

First, it is connected to the idea of a disease as an invader, complete with all the military metaphors of defense and war.