The extent to which the war power seeps into our everyday thoughts and routines has been well documented. As everything and everywhere becomes a security zone, so the war power finds a way of threading itself through our lives. We know plenty about the militarised nature of toys and games, about fashion as military chic, about cars designed as combat-ready flexible fortresses and of urban spaces secured as war zones. More than anything, our everyday language and thus our being and thinking is weighed down by war power: we talk in everyday terms of launching a blistering attack, continuing fallout, receiving flak, of‘press-gangs’ (originating from the collective noun for a group of sailors who forced men into the navy), ‘headhunters’ (originally from the desire to decapitate the enemy King),‘blockbusters’ (originally a large bomb used to demolish a number of buildings simultaneously), ‘pickets’ (originally the term for a group of soldiers placed in advance of the rest of the troops), ‘freelancers’ (originally a medieval mercenary) and ‘raids’ (originally a military expedition on horseback or a hostile and predatory incursion of mounted men).