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But, just like Flashman, he was sure there was little glory in war.
Yet, the hand wringing, bumbling generals led by a madman and backed by a German public with little appetite for war unleashed the blitzkrieg that would shatter the French and British forces in less than 7 weeks.
The mortar has changed little since World War II and remains one of the simplest weapons to operate, which is why it is found at the lowest level of infantry units, said Joseph Trevithick, a mortar expert with Global Security.org.
When the history of the George W. Bush administration is written, one of the most important questions to be addressed will surely be: Why did a President who repeatedly talked about the ideology animating our enemies in this "War on Terror" do so little to wage an effective "War of Ideas" against it?
Some European governments feel that their support for a war with little popular backing may have been taken too much for granted by America.
But when Spielberg does the story realistically, with scenes of butchery and mud, it seems trivial, even a little daft: the war stops, the armies and the trenches and the hospitals are stilled, so that the boy and the animal can find each other.
But even there, the latter-years growth represented little more than Korean-war expenditures.
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Because an American attack could well begin without the Rats, these considerations may reveal little about exactly when a war may start.
The Obama Administration therefore has embarked on a costly effort to refurbish and replace a nuclear-weapons arsenal that has seen little modernization since the Cold War ended 20 years ago.
In the ensuing 10 years, some of our political leaders basked in the glory of winning the Cold War and saw little need for protecting Canada and the United States from an airborne attack.
Obama likely paid so little attention to the Libyan war in his speech because it has not had the political effects it was supposed to have, and it could end up undermining the other political transitions in North Africa that it was supposed to protect.
Yes, U.S. production increased during the Second World War, but very little of that was of use to anyone but soldiers.
Mr Mutsolgov says the war in Georgia found little support in Ingushetia, not long ago engaged in a bitter ethnic conflict with North Ossetia.
Huddled on the bed with her two older siblings and her little cousin, Ahad says the war has created a layer of nightmares, each different from the next.
But contrary to his previous film where the Holocaust played a leading role, in "The Tiger and the Snow, " the war in Iraq seems little more than a distant backdrop.
From the end of World War II through the 1960s little stood in the way.
At the start of World War II, after war was declared, very little happened for half a year.
But youthful enthusiasm can only take you so far in any sport, particularly from a war-ravaged country with little competitive structure.
And here's the odd little bit of history, in World War II the Japanese parachuted bombs onto the west coast, and into Alaska, even.
The life of the sarariman, Japan's devoted company employee and symbol of its post-war economic miracle, leaves little time for leisure or the family.
As a schoolboy, he sold balloons for pocket money and, later, during World War II, started a little business peddling snacks from a hawker's stall.
Core U.S. national security interests and objectives have changed very little since the end of the Cold War and the formulation of the two-theater-war sizing construct.
And because they begrudge nearly everything about Clinton, the Dole campaign has stubbornly refused to organize a communications war room modeled on the Little Rock wonder.
Brampton Little Theatre was built sometime after World War II and was initially used as a cinema for the servicemen and women, before becoming a theatre.
As for the little Syrian girl who has survived a war and now open-heart surgery, she will need one more operation in about a year's time as her body grows.
Unlike Afghanistan, which has opium (and Iraq which has oil), the Horn has little of economic value to fuel a war: its frontline, after all, can barely keep a cow alive.
Pinkston said there is little chance of fighting breaking out while war games are being conducted, but he added that he expects North Korea to follow through with a somewhat mysterious promise to respond at a time and place of its own choosing.
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