David McKiernan, the allied land war commander, visited the British headquarters here today to be briefed on the attacks.
But although Britain will no longer prepare expensively for a big land war in Europe, it will prepare expensively to intervene further afield.
Neither Britain's small, professional forces nor Germany's large, conscript forces were designed to fight an offensive land war against a medium-sized European power.
Robin Brims, the British land war commander, briefed him on a plan, which foresees the consolidation of allied control over the city in a matter of days and then a British push north on Highway 6.
Middle Earth was a land wracked by war, plagued by the powers of deeply evil semi-immortal beings.
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The troops are also prepared for the dangers posed by land mines planted during the war.
Much like the adorable Exile video, where an urchin gives us a lay of the war-torn land, this one gives us the other side of the scuffle.
This should help to transform the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians from a tribal war over the land they cohabit into a conflict between sovereign states.
The biggest reason for optimism, though, is success in registering Afghanistan's estimated 9.5m voters, a Herculean task in a war-ravaged land where no proper census has ever been attempted.
Our shared interest is in building peace in a war-torn land -- a peace that provides no safe haven for violent extremists, and that provide hope for the Afghan people.
Abbas says he won't return to negotiations without an Israeli construction freeze, arguing that Israel's building on war-won land pre-empts the outcome of talks on a border between Israel and a future state of Palestine.
We do know that peace cannot come to a land that has known so much war without a political settlement.
Critics of Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe link hyperinflation to his policies on land distribution and unbudgeted payments to war veterans.
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The land occupation by so-called war veterans would stop, he said.
Not so long ago a small piece of land on the edge of a continent was at war, torn by religious and cultural differences, with its two peoples disputing the ownership of the land that both claimed as rightfully theirs.
They will limp home after the war ends to rebuild their land.
It was Germany's naval threat that made Britain prepare for war, not its expansion on land.
At BBC News Online, the land crisis in Zimbabwe began to rival the war between Ethiopia and Eritrea as the favourite topic for readers' e-mails.
But at the same time, Syria has wanted to have better relations with the United States, and it has engaged in indirect talks with Israel over their differences, especially the Syrian land seized by Israel during the Six Day War in 1967.
Small airplanes, including vintage World War II fliers, take off and land at the Hemet Ryan Airport.
The screenplay award went to Bosnia's Danis Tanovic for the irreverent war satire "No Man's Land, " which he also directed.
Tojo dropped in to the County Cork seaside town of Clonakilty during the Second World War when a US bomber had to land nearby.
Carriers can operate freely from international waters, while land-based aircraft cannot easily fly in a war zone unless a nearby country offers a base.
The Buchanan Trust was set up in 1919 in memory of Alan Buchanan, who died during World War I with the aim of providing land to former servicemen.
Upon his arrival at the ranch, Cleland -- who lost both legs and an arm during the Vietnam War -- was met by Texas Land Commissioner Jerry Patterson, himself a Vietnam veteran.
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The war has swung back and forth across Dinka land, killing off trade and access to essential goods and eroding their capacity to survive hard times.
For the first time since the Gulf war, American troops are in a foreign land, not guarding an embassy, protecting aid workers or trying to keep a peace, but fighting an enemy.
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The peace that followed these conflicts was characterized by increasing tension and competition, numerous war scares and massive increases in armaments on both land and sea.
In 1920, the Treaty of Sevres was signed between Turkey and the Allied powers after World War One, relieving Turkey of much of the land ruled by the Ottoman Empire.
And it is exacerbated by the return of millions of war refugees and by decades of upheaval that have left land tenure in chaos.
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