Nuclear war was seen as the most realistic war-fighting scenario, with all other forms of war trivial in comparison.
Most of them aim to improve America's irregular war-fighting, including counter-terrorism and counter-insurgency.
Russian doctrine emphasizes the war-fighting utility of such weapons and their modernization and exercising remain a priority for the Kremlin.
Indeed, America's technological lead is so great, and growing so fast, that it has changed the whole basis of war-fighting.
James "Spider" Marks have seen the intersection of intelligence and war-fighting, and I'd sure like to know the perspective of retired Gen.
But setting aside war-fighting and the projection of military might, the current criticism is strongest in the areas of economics and financial policy.
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Barnes is impressed by Bush's courage to move forward, almost alone and change the war-fighting strategy in order to enable victory in Iraq.
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Pentagon officials in previous, open hearings on the recommendations have warned against changes that could hurt the ability to get war-fighting intelligence to the battlefield.
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Most disturbing was a late-September Chinese air force exercise with the Turkish air force (which included a stop in Iran) that probably compromised sensitive NATO air-war-fighting tactics.
For all its missteps, the U.S. military has achieved its strictly war-fighting missions--in Iraq and Afghanistan, as well as a host of smaller conflicts--over the past 20 years.
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As a result, President Bush needs to make increased U.S. energy security a central part of the overhauled war-fighting strategy that he is set to announce next month.
What distinguishes this method from other types of war-fighting is its focus: instead of concentrating on the enemy you want to kill, concentrate on the civilians you want to protect.
They are a product of an inherited, imperial history of clothing, of our particular war-fighting history and of the "support the troops" trope so common in 21st century war rhetoric.
The commander demonstrated the war game recently to top U.S. defense officials visiting Command Post Tango, the war-fighting headquarters for the U.S. and South Korean forces, located inside an underground bunker in South Korea.
This capability rests in the Zumwalt DDG 1000 destroyer that was designed over the last decade from the keel up to be stealthy, (thereby, enhancing survivability), and to prevail in any future war-fighting environment.
The ability to communicate reliably and securely with widely dispersed U.S. forces be they strategic or tactical is an essential ingredient in assuring the deterrent credibility and war-fighting effectiveness of the American military.
But the president's emphasis on peacekeeping rather than war-fighting has mollified more cautious souls in Europe and America, where public support for any involvement in Kosovo has slipped from 54% in April to 45% in late May.
And by catering to the Left and refusing to identify the enemy, Bush adopted war-fighting tactics that discredited the war effort and demoralized and divided the American public, thus paving the way for Obama to be elected while running on a radical anti-war platform of retreat and appeasement.
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Designed from the keel up to deliver unsurpassed BMD war-fighting power, the DDG 1000 class destroyer combines huge electrical power margins (more than 20 times that available on even the newest DDG 51s) with designed-in open space for cooling, and with weight margins well in excess of what is needed to deploy highly powerful sensors, along with future weapons, that will put sea-based BMD well ahead of known BMD threats.
Compare war to medicine -fighting a war is like radical surgery, economic development is like vaccination or other preventive medicine.
Although no-one knows the true number, more than one million people died in the war - some from the fighting but many more from the resulting famine in the east.
He talked about the issues that usually stir his passions -- a commitment to service, winning the war in Iraq, fighting pork-barrel spending -- before taking questions from a small audience of Republican primary voters.
"You cannot bring peace by fighting - war is not the answer, " he told me.
Consider the anniversary to the end of the First World War - at least, the fighting ended anyway.
We also had the chance to visit the flu-fighting "war room" here in Washington where all the assets of government are being coordinated.
"In this unfamiliar desert, French helicopters and Islamist pick-up trucks are fighting a typical 21st Century war, " Christophe Barbier writes in the centre-right L'Express .
For years the Army's annual computer-simulated war game has focused on fighting a major war.
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"Time and again, George Bush has failed to give those fighting the war on terror -- whether they're overseas or over here -- the weapons, equipment and support they need, " Kerry, speaking in Washington, told a legislative conference of the International Association of Fire Fighters.
The rebels are fighting a decades-long war with the government to create a homeland for the Tamil community.
There's a risk that the Bank will always be fighting the last war and thus - possibly - paving the way for the next one.
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