They talk openly about setting an example for a nation that has spent years struggling to recover from one war after the next.
After 20 years of war, Afghanistan is one of the most heavily mined countries in the world.
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The transition from the Bush to the Obama administration was the first of its kind from one political party to another during war in nearly 40 years.
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A. analyst who taught at the National War College for eighteen years, is one of a growing number of critics of U.S. military spending, policy, and culture who are veterans of earlier wars.
If the Titanic is a vehicle for working out our cultural anxieties, the 1953 film makes it clear that one of those, during the first years of the Cold War, was the question of who the good guys were.
And yet during the period of the Thirty Years War (1618-1648) Elizabeth was one of the foremost power brokers for the Protestant cause in Europe.
His unprecedented four-year popularity has been sustained by an incredible economic growth which has been at eight percent each year, mostly due to increases in prices of Argentinean commodities in the world market, a situation no different than the one Juan Domingo PerC3n experienced during the post World War II years.
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The CFE was one of the most significant arms control agreements of the Cold War years.
Seven years on from the bid, one of the largest post-war public works projects has been delivered.
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Ninety-one years ago today, the battlefields of Europe fell quiet as World War I came to a close.
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Taylor, who for some years now has been pointing out that since World War II, one period was notably more good and stable, from a macroeconomic perspective, than the others.
In the 100 years since the Mexican Revolution, one part of Mexico has often been at war with another: urban vs. rural, rich vs. poor and, yes, dark-skinned vs. light-skinned.
Ten years after Mr Ahmeti's guerrillas almost tipped the country into war, no one wants a renewed conflict.
Back in 1916 the Americans were not at war yet and the Dow Jones had flirted with the one hundred level for several years and it finally broke through to a new digit.
One such war-time service was held on the black sands of Iwo Jima more than sixty years ago.
Obama campaigned and was elected on a platform of change, one that would end the abuses and torture so prevalent during the early years of the so-called war on terror.
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One leaflet that circulated even tried to cast aspersions on McCain's five years as a prisoner-of-war in Vietnam.
The liquidation follows an announcement in December that one of its biggest annual events, The War and Peace military show, was moving to Folkestone after 20 years.
During these years, the American economy transitioned from its focus on industrial production to support the war effort, to one led by consumption.
As we drawdown from the war in Afghanistan, one million service members are expected to leave the armed forces over the next several years.
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