// Betts, Richard K. (ed. ) Conflict After the Cold War: Arguments of War and Peace. – Boston, etc. : Allyn & Bacon, 1994. – P.207-220.For Warre, consisteth not in Battell onely, or the act of fighting; but in a tract of time, wherein the will to contend by Battell is sufficiently known: and therefore the notion of Time, is to be considered in the nature of Warre; as it is in the nature of Weather. For as the nature of Foule weather, lyeth not in a shower or two of rain; but in an inclination thereto of many days together: So the nature of Warre, con-sisteth not in actualfighting; but in the known disposition thereto, during all the time there is no assurance to the contrary. All other time is Peace.
—Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan, 1651
