In modern war, Littell says, there is no way to finely calibrate responsibility for the death and destruction wrecked.
One of the most notable elements in modern war is the generally lower level of its own casualties that a state will tolerate (the other side too, at least if there is a camera around).
"It reversed the Idea of Progress, " writes the literary historian Paul Fussell in "The Great War and Modern Memory, " the single best account of the war's cultural impact.
Our modern concept that war should be governed by law dates from the era.
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The action has been moved from ancient Rome to a modern republic at war, revealing the play as a contemporary battle drama and political thriller.
The modern practice of total war, Bell argues, was driven by the Enlightenment dream of total peace.
Outside of Gears of War and Modern Warefare 3, it seemed like practically every single thing shown had Kinect jammed into it somehow.
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But even when a modern communications infrastructure exists, war can destroy it.
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Given the nature of this particular war and of modern telecommunications, such monitoring had to include some individuals and selected intercepts in this country.
But the third time was the charm for those in emerging markets to finally run a post-World War II institution in modern times.
It is of national importance because, although no one single document can tell the whole story, it is at the heart of the documentary evidence that has informed modern opinion on the First World War.
In Russia, it is starting to look more like a Cold War reset than the modern political and economic reset Russia and the United States have been trying for over the last several years.
Smith has an opportunity to learn from the impressive success of Medicaid reform under Gov. Mitch Daniels of Indiana, in which Indiana was actually able to expand coverage by shifting the structure of Medicaid insurance from the traditional, World War II model to a modern, consumer-driven one.
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After the Gulf War, Saddam began building a modern palace for himself on top of ruins in the style of a Sumerian ziggurat.
Indeed, though much rarer, state on state war does still occur in the modern day, as evidenced by the First and Second Gulf Wars.
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Published this week in the U.S. by Harper Collins (no one in Japan has yet agreed to translate and publish the work), Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan relies on diaries, memoirs and war-era documents that have been unearthed in Japan since the Emperor died in 1989.
Hence his belief that tracing changes in post-war cartoons would offer insight into the modern Japanese psyche.
Our modern military was forged in the crucible of World War II.
Just as World War II defined the beginning of the modern age, the sinking of the Titanic really marked the end of the 19th Century.
The modern boundaries of the Middle East emerged from the war.
The once ramshackle Arizona market, the first place where Serbs, Croats and Bosniaks came to trade after the war, has been transformed into a modern shopping centre and business park.
The most enduring embargo in modern day history is a remnant of a Cold War past when the Soviet Union was the enemy and the world was on the brink of nuclear war.
The development of the modern computer was in no small part accelerated by World War II.
But, at its core the phone itself stayed pretty much the same until World War II, which was a hotbed for modern invention.
It's a reference to the pre-World War II forerunners of a corporate form whose modern iterations are better known as keiretsu, those vertically integrated manufacturing and trading cartels that gave Japan Inc. its fearsome reputation in the 1980s.
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Our modern naval traditions come from Britain and were honed during the War of 1812.
But all of those negative third years were prior to World War II, not in the post-1950 modern market era.
Whereas in the Gulf war America and its allies were able to use modern Saudi ports and airfields for their six-month build-up, the ports, airports and even roads of Albania and Macedonia, the likeliest staging-grounds for such a force, are poor to non-existent.
When it comes to the very real battle between gaming giants Activision and Electronic Arts over the virtual war between Battlefield 3 and Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3, enticing gamers to buy one, if not both, of these key fall releases is crucial.
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