Some say it will bring war to the heavens, but its purpose is to deter war in the heavens and on Earth.
The United States is surely right to seek to minimise its own casualties, but if war can be waged by one side without any risk to the life and limb of its combatants, has a vital form of restraint been removed?
Germany has never answered that question directly, but from its early post-war days it has accepted that only by offering material restitution as well as expressions of remorse could it prove that it had broken completely with its Nazi past.
At 4%, the household savings rate has jumped sharply from its low of near zero, but it is still far below its post-war average of 7%.
Israel will have to draw its own conclusions about the war, but the U.S. would do well to put together its own list.
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They were madly in love and eager to start their new life, but the war had plans of its own.
They are the fantastic play of light and dark from a feverish mind that perceived acutely the driving issues of its time, but could wage war only with the tools of the artist.
Citigroup, a financial-services giant, said earlier this month it would reopen its credit lines to Brazil, but if a long war caused a renewed economic downturn in America, rising bad debt might prompt its big banks to draw in their horns further.
Britain emerged from the first world war with debt at 140% of GDP and prices more than double their pre-war level, but it was determined to pay off its debt and return the pound to its pre-war value against gold.
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The PSP was developed at a Sony at war with itself, but its future lies in the promise of the company bringing peace between its contentious camps.
The Humvee served the military well from its inception in the early 1980s until the Iraq war, but once the military became embroiled in counter-insurgency warfare after 9-11, its deficiencies were hard to ignore.
By 2007 Fung Wah emerged from the price war period but still struggled with its safety record.
The Last of Us and Beyond Two Souls certainly lead the console pack for 2013, but God of War looks like it should hold its own.
But E-Quest has already begun to leverage its small war chest with the duo's connections.
This horrifyingly obscure war began in 1991, but many of its elements predate Sierra Leone's independence in 1961.
It is not unusual for protagonists of a war to disagree on its conduct, but rarely do they differ on its conclusion!
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Both sides emptied their substitutes' benches as the war of attrition took its toll, but it was England who ended the match the strongest.
But to assess its progress, we must first understand the war.
America played a big role in ending the war between north and south Sudan, but its efforts to douse the flames in Darfur have yet to succeed.
But America lost its enthusiasm for that arrangement early during the Cold War.
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Edinburgh Zoo said the wild population was in its healthiest state since before World War II, but remained at serious threat of extinction.
Kassel, 120 miles northeast of Frankfurt, is more than a millennium old, but most of its medieval, historic center was destroyed during World War II.
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That commission and the Intelligence Committee have said there was no evidence that political pressure skewed the intelligence, but they did not address how the administration made its case for war.
Beneath the surface there are signs that Mr Yehoshua is deeply worried about Israel's moral future: not just in the face of war against Hizbullah, for example, but in its very own soul.
Colombia's neighbours are right to be sceptical of the United States' initiative: recent history suggests it will lead not to the defeat of the drug industry, but to its dispersal (and with it, perhaps, the war) across Colombia's borders.
The Second World War is drawing to its exhausted close, but these young Americans still seem to be doing battle with themselves, and, rather than expressing their quandary in song, they carve a woman out of sand on the beach.
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