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  • If the Gulf was the first television war, Kosovo is the first Web war.

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  • Mr. DOUGLAS EDWARDS: From Cartoff (ph) comes the verdict in the first war criminal trials of World War II.

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  • Since the first war against Iraq in 1991, many thousands of British soldiers have spent time in the Middle East.

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  • "This will be the first war if it takes place where British politicians and soldiers are potentially liable to prosecution at the ICC, " said Mr Singh.

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  • Mr. BRYDEN: Neither country had the means to conduct the first war and both indebted themselves enormously with arms purchases, and the cost in terms of human lives was extraordinary.

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  • Somalia, which doesn't have yet a functioning government, of course, would probably become another front line, as it did during the first war between Ethiopia and Eritrea, and Sudan, as well.

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  • This may be the first war declared via Twitter.

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  • Had the United States been committed to intervene in full strength from the first moment of a European war, the first world war would probably, and the second world war would certainly, never have happened.

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  • It was service in the German army, not the Austrian, that prepared him for his calling, to turn the Great War into the first world war by dint of starting a second.

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  • The 5th Royal Irish Lancers was formed in 1858 and first fought in a major conflict in the Boer War in 1899, as well as action in the First World War, although traces its origins to an Irish dragoons regiment dating back to 1689.

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  • Air Force General Hap Arnold, an aviation pioneer whose vision helped shape the National War College, once argued that the First World War was decided by brawn and the Second by logistics.

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  • In the first Gulf war, the U.S. was able to win the UN's nod.

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  • The big shift occurred after the carnage of the first world war and the Spanish flu that followed.

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  • Americans fought the first gulf war with the best of intentions, and it was the right thing to do.

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  • Finally, globalisation went into reverse as the first world war and the Great Depression pushed governments further towards autarky.

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  • According to Bruce Bairnsfather, one of the most popular soldier-writers of the first world war, the Tommies were just as hardheaded.

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  • They already spread the lie about "Nayirah" that led into the First Gulf War, the supposed fate of Dale Earnhardt, Sr.

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  • The role of the British Army in the First World War and the competence or otherwise of her generals continues to be a subject of debate.

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  • Before the first world war, the products of the Italian masters were among the preferred collectibles of the great and the good of Europe.

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  • Following the cessation of play during the First World War, the Championships resumed in 1919 under the spell of Suzanne Lenglen who won five titles in a row.

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  • Lispector was born in Ukraine to a family still reeling from the pogroms and plagues that followed the first world war and the creation of the Soviet Union.

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  • But it was not until Ataturk rescued Turkey from dismemberment at the hands of the western Allies after the first world war that the army was put on a pedestal.

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  • In the wake of the first Gulf War, the U.S. Army assessed Saudi Arabia's solar energy resource potential in a classified effort to determine how oil fires had affected the region.

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  • W. Bush announced the start of the first Gulf war from the Oval Office, telling Americans and the world that he was the commander in chief just by setting the scene in the Oval Office.

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  • He goes on to contend that, just as Labour ousted the divided Liberals after the first world war, the Lib Dems are now intellectually equipped to oust it back, and to emerge as the Conservatives' main rival.

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  • Since both British and American intelligence were found to have underestimated Saddam's weapons programmes in the run-up to the first Gulf war in the early 1990s, they may have over-compensated for this by overstating the evidence this time round.

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  • And it will be a reminder that -- from the trenches of the First World War to the mountains of Afghanistan -- Aussies and Americans have stood together, we have fought together, we have given lives together in every single major conflict of the past hundred years.

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