Gantz's decision reportedly owes to his desire to avoid provoking Egypt with a rapid expansion of the IDF's order of battle.

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What remains of the order of battle is crippled by a lack of the unglamorous, costly supports that are the first to go when there isn't enough money.

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So I understand how -- I do this every day -- I understand how someone can do a static analysis, order of battle, numbers of weapons and things like that.

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The Royal Navy works with what the military call Mission Command, which sets out the intent, strategy, resources, contingency and inspiration for any large-scale activity (it actually derives from Nelson's order of battle set out a month before Trafalgar).

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The marching season reaches it peak on 12 July, when thousands of loyal order members parade through towns and cities to mark the anniversary of the Battle of the Boyne.

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As most of us have experienced, high school is all about forming a clique and segregating that group from the other cliques in the battle for the top of the high school pecking order.

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Is it necessary, for example, to refer to the work on battle fatigued second-world-war soldiers, in order to explain the despair of the castaways?

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Winning upset the established order of Erik Zabel, Robbie McEwen and Stuart O'Grady, who had been tipped to battle it out for the points prize.

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In 2001, he served as deputy justice minister in the interim government that followed the fall of President Alberto Fujimori and received the Order of the State Civil Service for his services to the nation in working on a strategy to battle corruption.

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