What is the foreshadowing in the sniper?

This story has the theme of the tragedy of war, the only war that Ireland ever had, which was a civil war. The conflict was between supporters and opponents of the Anglo-Irish Treaty. Liam O'Flaherty fought in the Irish War of Independence and the later Irish Civil War as a member of the Anti-Treaty IRA against the new Irish Free State. He had also fought in the First World War as an officer in the Irish Guards. As a result of his experiences, O'Flaherty provides a very realistic portrait of military combat. O'Flaherty later grew deeply disillusioned with the beliefs of the Anti-Treaty Republicans and Irish Nationalism in general. "The Sniper" reflects this feeling of the futility and waste of the Irish Civil War. Such themes can also be seen in O'Flaherty's short novel, The Informer. Arguably, "The Sniper" also condemns the glorification of violence in which O'Flaherty himself had participated in his youth. nWar knows no boundaries nage, sex, location, time of day, family ties nWar reduces human beings to mere objects