Now, they have hired English lawyer Martin Day, who recently won compensation for British prisoners of war detained by the Japanese, as well as for some Jews who were forced to work for the Nazis.
The US and Israel have led the way in recent years in using drones as weapons of war as well as for surveillance.
Death's significance for the Civil War generation arose as well from its violation of prevailing assumptions about life's proper end about who should die, when and where, and under what circumstances.
These clubby, consensual arrangements served Germany well for several decades after the war, winning the country an enviable industrial peace.
Of course, if you happen to be a pacifist by conviction, you probably hate all that Alexander stood for as well as what he did in war, but, if the premise of war be granted, he was surely a formidably great generalissimo.
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What about the war on unions and the unlimited favors for the well-connected?
Well, for more than two centuries, through war and depression, the United States has always paid its bills, always honored its obligations.
Applicable during times of armed conflict, they form the cornerstone of international humanitarian law, setting rules for the treatment of people who are not participating in the fighting -- civilians, health workers and aid workers -- as well as for the wounded, sick or prisoners of war.
As well as taking the award for top game, Gears of War won the technology and visual arts award.
And it has successfully prosecuted both Croats and Muslims, as well as Serbs, for crimes in the earlier, Bosnian war.
During the war, for example, the splits between town and country, as well as between young and old, were at least as important as ethnic considerations.
Most important of all, the nature of most conflicts has changed over the past decade, from cold-war face-offs between well-supplied proxies to regional free-for-alls.
Mr. Putin has his own reasons for pursuing better U.S. ties, most of them well beyond the old Cold War military issues.
Mr. MALLEY: Well, it certainly sounds like war, and I'm sure that for the people on the ground, whether in Lebanon or in Israel it's feeling very much like war, when you have a naval and sea blockade, when you have air strikes, when you have katyusha rockets fired into Israel.
Well known in national security circles, the highly decorated war veteran has established a reputation for being a strong strategic thinker.
"Some activities of American prisoners of war within German prison camps must remain secret not only for the duration of the war against the present enemies of the United States but in peace-time as well, " the document says.
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Praising troops who serve with "such dignity and selflessness, " Hagel expressed support for military families as well, specifically those "who have sacrificed so much over more than a decade of war" in Afghanistan.
Military analysts know full well that a sudden onset of famine is one of the surest triggers for civil unrest and all out war.
And John Kerry and John Edwards, who both voted for the war, can now claim Mr Bush got things wrong in the run-up to the war, as well as in the reconstruction afterwards.
The poll was conducted March 20-24, and it found that support for the war has remained fairly steady, even though the percentage of people who said the war was going "very well" dropped from 71 percent Friday and Saturday to 38 percent Monday.
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