Missouri can put the debate over the Border War record to rest with a win.
WSJ: Border War: Missouri, Kansas Have One Last Score to Settle
Since South Sudan's independence, tension between the new neighbours has been strained, with rebellions breaking out on either side of the border and a dispute over oil which escalated to the brink of war last April.
Mr. McGINNIS: The Guard's been working the border for a longtime, dating back to the mid eighties with the war on drugs.
NPR: Critics Question Using Nat'l Guard Troops at the Border
The two countries came close to all-out war over border disputes last year, and have since agreed to set up a buffer zone along the border.
President GEORGE W. BUSH: It is important for Americans to know that we have enough guard forces to win the war on terror, to respond to natural disasters, and to help secure our border.
NPR: Critics Question Using Nat'l Guard Troops at the Border
The most direct land route would take the pair straight through some of the region's most dangerous areas, including the Iraqi capital Baghdad, into war-torn Syria and straight through the embattled city of Aleppo to the Turkish border and on to Europe.
But Americans and Paraguayans alike scoff at claims of a base at Mariscal Estigarribia, close to the Bolivian border (the scene of a 1932-35 war).
Similarly, after the Gulf War, Turkey aided 500, 000 Kurds when they massed along the Turkish-Iraqi border to escape reprisals from the Iraqi leadership.
The relationship between this group and the ISI goes back to the Soviet war, when the Pakistanis channelled weapons to its patriarch, Jalaludin Haqqani, who commanded forces in the border area around Tora Bora.
Ambulances routinely rush war-wounded across the border from Syria to Turkey for treatment in Turkish hospitals.
Dr. COHEN: For years, the Indians were concerned about a too strong Pakistan, a Pakistan that provoked them, that went to war with them several times that pushed people across the border.
That worry seems to have receded slightly, though a shooting war across the Serbian-Albanian border is still possible.
KUKES, Albania (CNN) -- Ethnic Albanian refugees seeking shelter from the war raging in neighboring Kosovo are coming under increasing pressure to move out of crowded border camps.
As Kosovo, the Serbian province with an ethnic-Albanian majority, slides towards war, the government of Albania proper is begging the western defence club to help seal its border.
In December 1960, after the Border War defeat for Missouri, the Big Eight Conference (which Kansas and Missouri belonged to at the time) ruled that Coan should have been ineligible.
WSJ: Border War: Missouri, Kansas Have One Last Score to Settle
Musharraf, who seized power in 1999, is a key U.S. ally in the war on terror in neighboring Afghanistan and border regions where Osama bin Laden is believed to be hiding.
In 2000, the UN launched an appeal for 25, 000 tonnes of food for Eritrea to feed more than 200, 000 people affected by a drought and by the war with Ethiopia over the border area of Badme.
And no wonder that the Obama administration is looking for an exit plan from from the war in Afghanistan, which is hard enough to fight without having an exposed flank on the Pakistani border.
He gave warning to Colombia's president that any attempt to mount a similar operation in Venezuela would lead to war and he ordered his defence minister to send ten battalions, including armoured units, to the border.
After being interned in a Nazi work camp during World War II, he managed to make his way with his first wife, Eva, to the Romanian border, only to encounter a Russian commander who demanded to see his papers.
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