Being a war leader even helps Mr Blair in his perpetual, enervating, rivalry with Gordon Brown.
First, it is hard to run as war leader and tax-cutter-in-chief at the same time.
Early Welsh texts do not refer to him as a king, but as an emperor or war leader.
He said British forces "actually liked Margaret Thatcher, " describing her as "very much like Winston Churchill" as a war leader.
In that case, a prime minister who had come to think of himself as a war leader might quickly become insufferable.
Exploiting his reputation as a tough war leader is therefore likely to remain attractive to Mr Bush and his campaign advisers.
Indeed, are not Mr Blair's putative strengths as a war leader simply the obverse of his known defects as a peace leader?
This is bad news for a president who has emphasised his role as a war leader in his bid for re-election in November.
He had made himself Italy's longest-serving post-war leader by purveying unceasing optimism to an electorate naturally inclined to look on the bright side.
Given all these risks, why should he choose to stress his record as a war leader almost at the start of the general election campaign?
Churchill's attack on his trusted wartime deputy was immediately used by Attlee to highlight the difference between Churchill the war leader and Churchill the divisive political partisan.
But Mr Blair is not the only pro-war leader whose support is slipping: Mr Bush, too, is feeling some heat in the aftermath of the Iraq war.
This turned out to be a successful political strategy it gave the party Margaret Roberts who, after marriage to a fellow member, Denis Thatcher, became its most successful post-war leader.
So far we've talked to the anti-war leader Cindy Sheehan and to a woman named Kayla Williams, who wrote a book about her experiences as a soldier in Iraq.
Next, presenting himself as a war leader gives him extra arguments against two powerful criticisms: that his economic management has been poor and that the war on Iraq was unnecessary.
Some have also objected to the use of Stalin's name again, worried about what they see as creeping attempts under President Vladimir Putin's rule to portray Stalin as a great war leader.
Throughout the campaign, Mr Bush's team has insisted that any debate about Iraq was good for him because it plays to his strength as a war leader in a period of national security threats.
Willy Brandt International Airport, named for Germany's famed Cold War leader, was supposed to have been up and running in late 2011, a sign of Berlin's transformation from Cold War confrontation line to world class capital of Europe's economic powerhouse.
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If you present yourself as a war leader (especially against a certified Vietnam hero), you open up your own military service to scrutiny and Democrats are gleefully making an issue of Mr Bush's service during the Vietnam war in the Texas National Guard.
The funeral -- officially ceremonial rather than a state occasion in a distinction invisible to all but the most pedantic royal watcher -- was the first for a former prime minister and war leader since Winston Churchill's body was borne along the same route a generation ago.
And the kind of war we're fighting today is a company commander's war, a platoon leader's war for Iraqi Security Forces, as well as for American forces.
For the first time since the war, the leader of Vietnam has visited Washington, D.
War Veterans' leader Chenjerai Hunzvi has declared that they will not move.
Since this is a serious war, the leader of our forces should be at Central Command not farmed out to a federal agency.
The war veterans' leader is sometimes referred to as Hitler, the nom-de-guerre he is said to have adopted during the war of liberation that ended with Zimbabwean independence 20 years ago.
This week a former president of Bosnia's Serb Republic, Biljana Plavsic, gave herself up to the tribunal the highest-ranking figure so far to come before Ms Del Ponte, who still has her sights on Radovan Karadzic, the Bosnian Serbs' war-time leader, and Ratko Mladic, their top general.
On the other hand, as the self-proclaimed leader of the Arab world, Egypt is a main sponsor of the Palestinian war against Israel and a leader in the campaign to delegitimize Israel internationally.
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The most notorious wanted LRA leader is war crimes suspect Joseph Kony.
It would appear that the stores in the south of that great country have got themselves locked into a price war on a loss leader.
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