Generals are not the only ones guilty of trying to fight the last war.
It had only been five years since we had finished fighting the last war.
Wrong Threat Generals are not the only ones guilty of trying to fight the last war.
The politicians seem to be acting like Generals, ready to fight the last war.
On that note, it seems that most everyone is very busy preparing for and fighting the last war.
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The last war had many sides to it, some negative and some positive.
Israel's last war against another state's army was almost 40 years ago.
Mr Darling rejected the calls to separate retail and investment banking, likening them to the strategies of a "general fighting the last war".
So if the Kosovo conflict were solved, there would be a decent chance of it being Europe's last war for a long time.
In effect, many PV companies are perpetually fighting the last war.
There's a risk that the Bank will always be fighting the last war and thus - possibly - paving the way for the next one.
As for Republican critics, we suspect they are simply fighting the last war, haunted by their failures in the 1995 budget fight that shut down the federal government.
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Nations always prepare to fight their last war, and now Gates' Pentagon is thinking only about what the U.S. needs to defeat jihadists in sandy and rocky environments.
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Like generals fighting the last war, the Fed fears inflation.
Since political strategists are known for fighting the last war, come 2004 there will be a real temptation for candidates in the party out of power to just forget the Iowa caucuses to focus more time in New Hampshire.
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So do you think we need something like a sort of latterday Bretton Woods conference like we had towards the end of the last War, do we need to get nations together to make the playing field more even?
Mr Brown seems to be fighting the last war: fear-mongering claims about spending cuts which worked in 2001 and 2005, when money was cascading into the Treasury and voters viewed the Tories as malign, are less persuasive at a time of record borrowing and sunnily rebranded opponents.
And can anyone forget the tragic cost to America of their last great war?
Turkey desperately needs such assistance to cope with the lingering, devastating effects on its economy of the last Gulf War and to cushion it from the costs of the next one.
The last Gulf war may have proved the making of CNN, but it also weakened network television: the networks each lost millions of dollars each day as most advertising was scrapped.
Mr Rumsfeld insists the reason for a smaller force is that since the last Gulf war there has been a huge change in the way ground campaigns can be fought, especially with weapons getting smarter and more precise.
Perhaps hoping to mollify any hardening opinion, Iraq has sent the inspectors six letters including extra information (its officials say) to back up its claims to have destroyed chemical and biological weapons unilaterally after the last Gulf war.
The Massachusetts senator voted against defense appropriations bills that included money for weapons such as the Patriot missile, the Tomahawk cruise missile and the B-2 stealth bomber -- all of which military leaders say have become integral to the U.S. force and were crucial to winning the 1991 Gulf war and last year's war in Iraq.
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It was only in the last months of the war, when bureaucratic bungling and critical shortages at last began to take their toll, that Japan's output of aircraft and other military equipment dwindled.
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