For years the Army's annual computer-simulated war game has focused on fighting a major war.
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Mr Rumsfeld inherited lots of good ideas, has had a major war to learn from, and is the most powerful defence secretary in recent history.
Since then, the Army has revised it plans so that those two divisions are no longer among the first to be deployed to fight a major war.
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Instead, Rumsfeld advocates a strategy under which the United States can win one major war decisively, while handling a series of lesser contingencies, including repelling the initial stages of a second major war.
Serbia's path to becoming an EU candidate was given a boost last year when two major war crimes suspects - former Bosnian Serb commander Ratko Mladic and former Croatian Serb leader Goran Hadzic - were arrested.
When the French Revolution led to a major war between France and England, Washington refused to accept entirely the recommendations of either his Secretary of State Thomas Jefferson, who was pro-French, or his Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton, who was pro-British.
Is the one major theater war to take place in the desert, jungles, or mountains?
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The fourth major transition is the respite from major interstate war that we have seen since the end of World War II.
His arrest means that General Ratko Mladic, the Bosnian Serbs' former army commander, is the only major alleged war criminal indicted by the court who is still at large, at least occasionally, in Serbia.
We can never know with certainty when or where the next major theater war will occur, who our next adversary will be, how an enemy will fight, who will join us in a coalition, or precisely what demands will be placed on U.S. forces.
In a rare display of openness about storage standards, Sony expressed yesterday that it is now completely open to discussions on creating a single next-generation DVD standard instead of barreling right along into the impending major format war between Blu-ray (which Sony currently backs) and HD-DVD.
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Kyle was a major advocate for war veterans and worked to ensure their needs were met.
Meanwhile, the Army had suffered an embarrassing setback in the 1999 Balkan air war, encountering major problems in deploying its helicopters to the war zone.
The war was a major issue in the Aug. 8 defeat of war supporter Sen.
This is what happened after the 18 market major corrections since World War II, recalls Stovall.
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MacArthur had the lowest casualty rate of any major commander of World War II.
But let it be remembered that you won every major battle of that war.
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It professes to adhere to the two-major-theater-war standard while proposing for the second contingency something a great deal less.
The two-major-theater-war standard for sizing the U.S. military is hardly a new idea.
The war destroyed major water points and water systems, forcing millions of Liberians to go without access to clean and safe drinking water and proper sanitation facilities.
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Mr. Patch would surely agree that a major effort to preventing war and human suffering must be to support continued medical research, especially to ameliorate emerging epidemics such as worldwide "Lyme Disease", drug-resistant malaria and tuberculosis, and parasitism.
The Battle of Alma was considered the first major battle of the Crimean War.
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John "Mick" Bednarek, part of Task Force Lightning in Diyala province, one of the war's major battlegrounds.
The major casualties in this currency war are developing countries with trade deficits, such as Brazil, Mexico, and India.
They are now a major criminal group, at war with various old allies, including La Familia and the Gulf cartel.
Soviet troops defeated the German Sixth Army, in what is considered one of the major turning points of World War II.
The United States became a major world power in World War II.
That has played to Sir Menzies's strengths and reminded voters that the Lib Dems were the only major party to oppose the war.
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