Highlights included the Battles of Waterloo and Trafalgar, the Boer War, the Battle of Britain and even the Falklands war, all despatched in a couple of minutes each.
In deciding to participate in peacekeeping arrangements, Washington will have to balance the possible risks inherent in peacekeeping as well as the potential opportunities that peace will create versus the likely risk of increased instability and perhaps even war should the Israel-Syria peace effort collapse.
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The group stages saw a resumption of the old Calcutta Cup rivalry between England and the Scots, a South Pacific stand-off between Fiji and Samoa and even a Cold War heritage fixture between USA and Russia.
Admit the Greek-run part of Cyprus (in legal terms the whole island) and risk sparking a crisis, perhaps even a war, between Greeks and Turks, even though the governments in Athens and Ankara have been getting along better than they have for some time?
It remained that way throughout the 1930s and even during World War II, when some families fled there in fear of Allied bombing of Bangkok.
The electoral dynamics may have been very different in 2000 and 2004 than they were in 2008, as were the war records and even the political parties of Al Gore, John Kerry and McCain.
When I see someone in uniform, I see salvation from this war and even our economic woes.
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Recessions in the mid Seventies, after the first Gulf War and even the Great Recession of late were all attributed to rising fuel costs.
The videos were shot over a few months last summer and show them eating meals with friends, watching soccer games on TV, cooking with their mothers, and even dating in a war zone.
That said, the present crisis is undoubtedly the most serious the two nations have faced since the 1971 war and even with major international diplomatic input it will still be extremely difficult to find a face-saving formula to allow the protagonists to disengage.
And the war is even more unpopular among Democratic primary voters, something senators were constantly reminded of by the periodic disruptions of the hearings by anti-war protestors, and all of the Democratic presidential candidates have fought to position themselves as the candidate who can bring the troops home.
If war and the threat of war are hardly even options, what can the world do?
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And even after the guns of war fall silent, the ravages of war will continue.
Particularly egregious has been the Obama administration's determined effort to obscure whether we are even at war and with whom.
That would not be thinkable today: death cannot be imposed by the Yugoslav and Rwandan war crimes tribunals even for the worst atrocities.
And I know that Israeli leaders also know all too well the costs and consequences of war, even as they recognize their obligation to defend their country.
The comparison between the gridiron and a war zone becomes even more similar now, as the NFL is looking into implementing the same helmet sensors the Army uses to gather data on head trauma after impact, according to the Stars and Stripes, an independent news source of the military.
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And has the Kosovo war made even a distant settlement more likely?
You say you don't know why we are fighting -- what we are trying to accomplish -- and even whether we are "at war" at all.
Thus, Democrats have held a White House "women's summit, " accused Mr. Romney of wanting to deny women health care and equal pay, and even hit Ann Romney for the war crime of being a stay-at-home mom.
But when Spielberg does the story realistically, with scenes of butchery and mud, it seems trivial, even a little daft: the war stops, the armies and the trenches and the hospitals are stilled, so that the boy and the animal can find each other.
When I think about America, I think about my family, and I think about my grandfather who fought in World War II, and my grandmother, who, even with a baby, was working on a bomber assembly line.
Britain and France pressed for war in Libya even though they were incapable of prosecuting it alone.
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The U.S. refused to accept Jewish refugees even as Nazi persecution rose and World War II loomed.
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It lasted 15 years with an estimated 150, 000 dead and yet, the war is not even mentioned in school history books, says playwright Rabih Mroue.
So, perhaps to show that it is giving space its due, the Air Force held its first space war game here, and even invited reporters inside for a few hours.
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Davidson has catalogued some 300 individual chips bearing such images as Daffy Duck, Marvin the Martian, and even a Russian message intended for Cold War-era Soviet operatives (who were attempting to reverse-engineer American technology).
Fred returned to the U.S. on the eve of World War II and built an even larger fortune around Rock Island Refining, a refinery and oil-gathering pipeline system in southern Oklahoma, and a part-interest in a refinery outside of Minneapolis.
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Unless we are prepared to abandon our fundamental values altogether, the rule of law must retain its vitality in war and in peace, even when terrorists topple our buildings into rubble and senselessly murder our citizens in the American homeland.
Hospitals are using it as a pain management tool, psychologists are helping clients manage their anxiety and depression with it, and even the military is finding mindfulness helpful for warriors confronting the wounds of war and post-traumatic stress disorder .
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