For many religious Israelis, the lightning victory of the 1967 war was proof of divine intervention.
Olson presents as a prime example the poignant story of celebrated author Anne Morrow Lindbergh, who was caught between her husband's leadership of the campaign to keep America out of the war and the efforts of her mother and sister on behalf of intervention.
The 1937 match proved to be the final Ryder Cup before the intervention of the Second World War, with the 1939 event, planned for Florida, cancelled.
It urges China to opt for a "non-intervention policy" of preventing a major war while making contingency plans to avoid any negative impact of a possible war.
Significantly, considering that Algeria's war was sparked by military intervention against the rising Islamist tide of the early 1990s, the Islamist candidate, Abdallah Jaballah, came a distant third with 5% of the vote.
Turkey, for one thing, has again implied that the Kurdish acquisition of Kirkuk could spark civil war and even a Turkish intervention.
Whatever the reason, it is obvious that the president has no intention of complying with the War Powers Act with regard to our military intervention in Libya.
IR Your proposed criteria would have called for intervention in America's civil war on behalf of the South.
With Watergate and the Vietnam war, America started to approach European levels of cynicism about government and military intervention abroad.
Secretaries of Defense are supposed to be cheerleaders for war, promoting promiscuous global intervention, demanding increased Pentagon outlays, and supporting perpetual military commitments.
And he has a decent foreign-policy record, from taking France back into NATO's military structure to his intervention in the 2008 Russian-Georgian war and his joint leadership of the campaign against Libya.
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What made intervention in Sierra Leone so urgent was the sheer savagery of the war there, and the sense of common humanity that can sometimes prompt other countries to act.
Such was the raison d'etre for Project Grey Goose, a private sector initiative aimed at determining whether the cyber war conducted against Internet infrastructure in the Republic of Georgia was a product of Russian government intervention or initiated by patriotic hackers on their behalf.
It was not so much the war itself as the perceived administration policy of 'stay the course, ' which implied endless intervention with no victory in sight.
It was the intervention of a diminutive pistol-wielding Serb nationalist, Gavrilo Princip, that set off World War I.
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Thanks to the personal intervention of General MacArthur, the military ruler of occupied Japan, Hirohito narrowly avoided indictment as a war criminal.
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