UN's slowness to assemble a police force has left the Atlantic alliance with its hands full as the sole keeper of order in the former war zone.
Following the end of World War II, President Truman issued an Executive Order to standardize the Presidential Seal, and the Coat of Arms was modified so that the eagle faces to its right, the direction of honor, and also toward the olive branch, a symbol of peace, rather than toward the arrows which represent war.
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But at the same time, it is equally clear that Ethiopia is the only state among the warring factions that has tried to bring a semblance of law and order and openness to its war torn, fractured society.
Her daughter once asked to be admitted to the children's home where her mother worked after the war, in order to see more of her.
Strategic advantage (shih), a central feature of the Art of War, connotes the release of latent energy, both physical and psychological, in order to ride the forces of circumstances to victory.
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?
She says she kept the letters hidden in a closet for so long after the war in order to spare her children the burden of growing up with guilt about their mother's Holocaust experiences.
It is under this pressure that farmers' leaders have petitioned the president and begun their third legal process to order him, the chief of police and the leader of the war veterans to end the occupations.
Senior Administration figures like National Security Advisor Brent Scowcroft, moreover, have described Moscow's constructive role as the stuff of which a new Post-Cold War "world order" can be made, based fundamentally on U.S.-Soviet joint leadership of the international community in resisting aggression.
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Critics of George W. Bush harshly chastised him for allegedly misleading the American people about Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction in order to get us into a needless and unjustified war.
Mr Garner has a good reputation in the region: he oversaw the restoration of order and humanitarian supplies in Kurdish-held Iraq after the first Gulf war.
Eric Shinseki, the outgoing Army chief of staff, told Congress in February that "something on the order of several hundred thousand soldiers" would be needed to govern Iraq after a war.
By his early thirties he successfully led a fleet of experimental new weapons in World War I - submarines - earning the Distinguished Service Order with two bars.
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In her resignation letter , Ms Wilmshurst said she could not agree with the decision to go to war "in circumstances which are so detrimental to the international order and the rule of law".
The U.S. had no advance blueprint for much of the post-WWII order--few U.S. policymakers foresaw the Cold War--but, more often than not, we responded to crises and opportunities successfully--a vivid contrast to the responses of the 1920s and 1930s.
On the other hand, a new doctrine of economic deterrence has emerged, safeguarding world order just as effectively as MAD did during the Cold War.
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Russia had wanted a greater role for the UN in the post-war administration of Iraq and for the UN's weapons inspectors to return in order to certify that the country has no weapons of mass destruction.
In his book, "Plan of Attack, " Woodward reported that prior to the invasion of Iraq, Bandar was briefed on top-secret U.S. war plans in order to enlist Saudi support.
" Lilyea, who fought in the 1991 Persian Gulf war, said he believes physical standards will be relaxed "in order to force the acceptance of women in the combat arms specialties.
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In time of war, it would not be merely reckless but the height of folly to jeopardize the good order and discipline of the armed forces.
Instead, suffering from a lack of what we want with no avenue to get what we want, we go to war in order to forcibly take that which would otherwise reach us through voluntary, mutually wealth-enhancing exchange.
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When the outcome of the war in Iraq was in doubt, Bob Gates presided over the extraordinary efforts that helped restore order.
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Eager to emulate conditions in the stricken countries of post-war Europe, the researchers wanted to discover how little food a starving man needed in order to recover.
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The extent of America's sweeping success during the Persian Gulf War had the unintended consequence of convincing would-be adversaries that they must reconstitute new strategies in order to compete with and challenge U.S. power.
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