Both actions started with the use of ground forces ruled out, saw escalating airstrikes, the indictment of the enemy leader for war crimes, and when hope of a quick solution by airpower faded, the dispatch of attack helicopters to the theatre.
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Learning about the distribution of earthquakes may not prevent the Big One, but for war and terrorism, power-law statistics may teach governments something about how to defeat the enemy, and make war less deadly.
That edge is the main reason why no U.S. soldier has been killed by hostile aircraft since the Korean War, and no U.S. pilot has been downed by an enemy plane since the Vietnam War.
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No one needed reminding about who the enemy was in this war.
Almost a century later, America's continuing domination of cotton production led the Soviet Union, its implacable enemy in the cold war, to look for self-sufficiency in this vital crop.
It was in 1942 that the medal was conferred on Malta, in recognition of the conspicuous gallantry and fortitude displayed by islanders during devastating World War II enemy bombardments.
Loomis threw himself into the job, shutting down the Tuxedo Park lab to work on developing a long-range radar system that would allow Allied forces to detect enemy movements during World War II.
The history of warfare shows that while demonization can build and maintain alliances and coalitions, and is important to maintain national unity in a protracted conflict, it can inadvertently aid the enemy's own war aims.
If we are to win this war against an enemy that occupies no particular territory, we need intelligence.
In this war, the enemy's attempt to distort and obscure its identity is its primary line of defense.
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Denial of an Islamic basis to a war that the enemy says is grounded in Islamic doctrines of jihad reflects the acceptance of enormous risk.
They are enemy combatants held in a war authorized by Congress.
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The second lesson the public learned is that when a nation goes to war against an enemy that seeks its destruction, it must fight to win.
Rather, more often than not, Armitage slings his gun - or, more accurately, wields his stiletto - in the other sense of a partisan: one who wages war from behind enemy lines.
The most enduring embargo in modern day history is a remnant of a Cold War past when the Soviet Union was the enemy and the world was on the brink of nuclear war.
The U.S. military loaded up on Collins' radios and tracking devices during World War II to hunt enemy submarines.
The legal basis to detain enemy combatants under the law of war remains the same, meaning they can be held until the end of hostilities.
In the interest of clarity and a new sense of direction, you must give new names to the war and to the enemy we confront.
IR--An alliance is a formal treaty or agreement between states, commonly for the purpose of mutual aid in the event of war against a common enemy.
The WWII-era pillbox, as it is called, was built to defend the United States from enemy boats that, thanks to war remaining at a safe distance, never reached its shores.
If you are in a war, why does your enemy wish to close your ports?
Nor will he land in Skene Manor on Skene Mountain in upstate New York, named for a Skene who was declared an enemy of the state in the Revolutionary War.
We in the KC-135 chewed over such questions as what it means to be at war not with a conventional enemy, but with a network of terrorist organizations and their state sponsors.
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Four justices concurred with her that Congress had implicitly authorised the Bush administration to hold enemy combatants when it authorised force in the war on terrorism.
Congress won't let him into the United States unless he is going before a criminal court, and the administration will not send him to Guantanamo despite the legitimate claim that a nation at war has the right to detain enemy combatants without trial.
But we are fighting a war in two theaters, against an enemy not bound by borders.
Yes, they say, they agreed to back America's war: refusing would have made an enemy of a superpower.
It is an instrument of war for attack and defense against an enemy.
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In fact, the litigator frames the dispute as a war in which the opponent is the enemy and the client the victim.
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