In Luanda, slum-dwellers complain that forced recruitment, a regular practice during the war, has started again.

ECONOMIST: Deadline for Angola | The

Remember, the military cuts we are talking about come out of the regular Pentagon budget, not the war appropriations sustaining overseas operations.

FORBES: Defense Cuts Could Destroy A Million Jobs

At its last regular meeting, just two days before the war started, the Fed announced that the outlook was so unclear that it could not decide where the balance of economic risks lay.

ECONOMIST: Wait and see, again | The

British troops, with the support of coalition air power, have been pushing steadily into Basra since shortly after the start of the war, facing fierce resistance from Iraqi regular and irregular troops.

CNN: British 'taking control' of Basra

The assassination of the democratically elected Hutu president, Melchior Ndadaye, in 1993, sparked off the war between mostly Hutu rebel movements and the regular army, which is dominated by the Tutsi minority.

BBC: African leaders warn Burundi rebels

Like cannons and other weapons of war, they were tools of the state and inaccessible to regular folks.

CNN: The cyberwar may be headed to your computer

And, you know, if you want to find out how the war is going, you have to go there because if you read the regular newspapers, you don't know.

NPR: An Activist Grandma, 'Embedded' in Iraq

The administration still treats a five-year war as an unforeseen contingency to be paid for by an extra, emergency appropriation outside its regular budget request.

ECONOMIST: Invading Iraq