Closer to home, the last Labour government fought a war on poverty using various benefits.
Sudan's north and south fought a war for more than 20 years, which left around two million people dead.
America has never fought a war against a democracy, and our closest friends are governments that protect the rights of their citizens.
Iraq and Iran fought a war in the 1980s that spanned eight years and killed at least a half-million people, by some estimates.
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Having fought a war to secure British sovereignty of the islands a plan to defend them in the future now had to be implemented.
Azerbaijan fought a war with neighbouring Armenia in the 1990s, in which it lost the Nagorno-Karabakh region, and the two sides may yet fight another.
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Excerpt: In my youth, we had fought a war to put the world back the way it was before the war started, only to find that the fighting itself had changed it radically and forever.
But the founders, and more specifically the framers of the Constitution, included men who had fought a war for independence -- the very war celebrated on the "Glorious Fourth" -- against a country in which church and state were essentially one.
Robin Hood and his merry men may have been a group of Kent archers who fought a guerrilla war during a French occupation, a historian has claimed.
In the late 1980s it fought a price war with Japanese enginemakers while investing heavily in new product.
Botros fought a bitter war with the much more traditional Catholic school across the way, sometimes winning battles.
Russia and Georgia fought a brief war this month over the two provinces.
Serbia and Bulgaria, which fought a nasty war against each other in 1885, have in recent years had little chance to get along well.
He compared its threats to those of the Triple Alliance of Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay, which fought a genocidal war against Paraguay in the 1860s.
After the collapse of the former Soviet Union in 1991, Azerbaijan and Armenia fought a brutal war in which both sides suffered enormously, with up to 30, 000 people killed and a million forced to flee their homes.
This may be a war unlike any other we have ever fought, but it is a war.
Had the media even thought about criticizing it, they would have shown that Kadima leader Tzipi Livni's claim that only a war fought by the Left will be supported was a lie.
America and China, with which India had once fought a disastrous border war, both had close ties to Pakistan.
The British also fought a seemingly unending war in Northern Ireland, which brought them hundreds of Irish Republican Army prisoners committed to violent resistance.
Indeed one might even be forgiven for thinking a truly radical thought: that Barack Obama, a president who, recall, fought a non-war-war in Libya without Congressional authorization, is vulnerable to criticism because his foreign policies have been too aggressive.
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Russia fought a four-day war with Georgia after it tried to retake the Moscow-backed breakaway province of South Ossetia on 7 August, following days of clashes with separatists.
The United Kingdom fought a short, sharp war against Argentina over the Falklands Islands under Thatcher in 1982, responding with force when Buenos Aires laid claim to the islands.
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Russia and Georgia fought a five-day war in August 2008 over the breakaway Georgian province of South Ossetia -- the first time Russia sent troops abroad to fight since the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991.
In 1993, one month after he moved into the simple home he'd built in Veteran's Village, a longtime squatter zone in Quezon City set aside for families of those who fought in World War II, a woman showed up claiming she owned his lot.
In 1993, one month after Estillore moved in to the simple home he'd built in Veteran's Village, a longtime squatter zone in Quezon City set aside for families of those who fought in World War II, a woman showed up claiming she owned his lot.
Iraq has refused to recognize the no-fly zones since then and has fought a low-level air war against the allies.
From the beginning of the Iraq war, a number of officers and policy intellectuals, including Petraeus, believed that the war had to be fought a different way.
The Winograd commission, which probed the army's performance in painstaking detail, concluded that it fought most of the war as a series of routine anti-terrorist operations.
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