In the ensuing 10 years, some of our political leaders basked in the glory of winning the Cold War and saw little need for protecting Canada and the United States from an airborne attack.
But contrary to his previous film where the Holocaust played a leading role, in "The Tiger and the Snow, " the war in Iraq seems little more than a distant backdrop.
The mortar has changed little since World War II and remains one of the simplest weapons to operate, which is why it is found at the lowest level of infantry units, said Joseph Trevithick, a mortar expert with Global Security.org.
From the end of World War II through the 1960s little stood in the way.
But when Spielberg does the story realistically, with scenes of butchery and mud, it seems trivial, even a little daft: the war stops, the armies and the trenches and the hospitals are stilled, so that the boy and the animal can find each other.
And here's the odd little bit of history, in World War II the Japanese parachuted bombs onto the west coast, and into Alaska, even.
Huddled on the bed with her two older siblings and her little cousin, Ahad says the war has created a layer of nightmares, each different from the next.
And because they begrudge nearly everything about Clinton, the Dole campaign has stubbornly refused to organize a communications war room modeled on the Little Rock wonder.
The Obama Administration therefore has embarked on a costly effort to refurbish and replace a nuclear-weapons arsenal that has seen little modernization since the Cold War ended 20 years ago.
Obama likely paid so little attention to the Libyan war in his speech because it has not had the political effects it was supposed to have, and it could end up undermining the other political transitions in North Africa that it was supposed to protect.
Yet, the hand wringing, bumbling generals led by a madman and backed by a German public with little appetite for war unleashed the blitzkrieg that would shatter the French and British forces in less than 7 weeks.
The report does little to change the basic assessment of America's war on drugs: that it has curbed casual abuse, but not serious addiction.
Under the strategic circumstances of the Cold War between the Soviet Union and the United States, all that was necessary was to ensure the survivability of nuclear forces because very little could survive on the ground should a nuclear war erupt.
Mr Mutsolgov says the war in Georgia found little support in Ingushetia, not long ago engaged in a bitter ethnic conflict with North Ossetia.
Again, the story of a woman attempting to impart wisdom gained from years of fighting in the dating and love trenches with little to show for it at the end of the war.
Frequented by Russian holidaymakers, the peninsula has had little influence from the West and is better known for its war history than for the long strips of pebble beach propping the rocky Crimean Mountains.
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.
Those powers include considerable patronage -- the ability to appoint bishops, government ministers, heads of public bodies and so on -- as well as the power to go to war, sign treaties and change the law through the little-understood Privy Council.
That first night on the downs I slept in the dubious shelter of a forestry plantation called War Down, tucked into my little bivouac tent while the rain slipped down the conifer needles.
Yes, U.S. production increased during the Second World War, but very little of that was of use to anyone but soldiers.
Core U.S. national security interests and objectives have changed very little since the end of the Cold War and the formulation of the two-theater-war sizing construct.
As for the little Syrian girl who has survived a war and now open-heart surgery, she will need one more operation in about a year's time as her body grows.
The point that was missed is that in the event that IDF veterans are charged with war crimes, even the best attorneys will be of little use.
While the role of the Home Guard during World War II has been widely celebrated, very little is known of their counterparts in the Auxiliary Units, who would have been Britain's last line of defence in the event of a Nazi invasion.
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon struck a personal note in his opening remarks, as he recalled his childhood as a displaced person at the close of World War II when his mother, like other women enjoyed little help bringing children into the world.
The life of the sarariman, Japan's devoted company employee and symbol of its post-war economic miracle, leaves little time for leisure or the family.
But, with American domestic support for the war falling away, they have little room for manoeuvre.
It got so popular on twitter in our circle that when we went to shop the book Manology, there was a little bidding war.
But, apart from some potentially important economic agreements and some tearful reunions between families separated by the Korean war, Seoul and Washington have little to show for all of this.
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