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Neville Chamberlain, who was neither, starved the army and navy on the theory that the revolution in military affairs of his time made the only defense feasible that of a "Fortress Britain" protected by the Royal Air Force -- and then failed in building up the air force.
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If the government persists with it, the powerful military will feel threatened because - as the theory goes - the onslaught will not stop with Mr Musharraf.
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Developed largely from his study of the ancient Chinese theoretician Sun Tzu and Prussian military reformers of the 19th century, the theory explains how a combatant can defeat the enemy on the mental battlefield, before the real shooting starts.
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According to Piet Swiegers, manager of the nearby Klein-Aus Vista lodge, the most likely theory is that they were German and South African military horses abandoned in the chaos of the First World War.
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Instead, the prevalent Russian theory is that the Chinese will follow the advice of their great military philosopher Sun Tsu, who said the best general wins wars without fighting a single battle.
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Because many of the affected frequencies already are in use, in theory ultrawideband gets in the way of everything from satellites to military radar.
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The theory is that Dominican generals wanted a military rival next door to justify their own budget (the Dominican armed forces are one of the largest in the hemisphere on a per capita basis).
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Rebuffed by Rome, Mr Kirchner stripped Bishop Baseotto of the state salary he received as chaplain to the army and thus, in theory, his right to enter military installations.
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In theory, such flare-ups should offer the European Union a chance to show some military mettle for all its talk of having a rapid-reaction force of its own, but in practice the Macedonian crisis comes when Europeans are still wholly unready for reaction.
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Yet another theory has it that Iran kidnapped the sailors to use as a bargaining chip to force the US military to release Iranian operatives who the US has arrested in Iraq in recent months.
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