As well as the blockade, it blames war damage and chronic underinvestment.
As the battles rage on, researchers are still trying to gauge the damage the war has done to troops.
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As airlines and travel agents reported a surge in cancellations this week, industry bosses were struggling to put a figure on the war's likely damage.
In the short term, perhaps the most serious fall out from the war may be the damage done to the image of the Israeli military among Middle East governments.
And they also estimate the damage the war has done to the American economy, by raising the price of oil and diverting spending from domestic investment to foreign adventures.
Kind of collateral damage in the war against tax shelters.
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It was a difficult moment for the country, which sustained significant damage during World War II, but it also presented a rare opportunity for its architects and designers to rethink life in Britain as a whole.
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Mr Obama pledges to heal primeval rifts and repair the reputational damage done by a war he opposed.
As the world population soared, the population controllers came to believe they were fighting a war, and there would be collateral damage.
Moreover, the state's growth in population after the second world war was producing horrible signs of environmental damage, though drivers and carmakers alike were reluctant to admit that the smog over Los Angeles was the result of automobile emissions.
As the target list widens, air power, though a bluntish instrument, can clearly inflict a lot more damage on Mr Milosevic's war machine.
The traditionalists argue that existing definitions of war are more than adequate, that while the practice of war might change (including weapons and tactics) the fundamental nature of war does not: it is still about damage, destruction, injury, or death inflicted for political purposes, usually by state actors.
Athens might no longer be a war zone but atmospheric pollution had already caused serious damage to many of the marbles remaining there, he added.
During the war the London store was bombed several times causing great damage every time.
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The signatories of the letter have expressed their concern over the damage and loss inflicted on the National Museum of Iraq in Baghdad and other museums, libraries and archives, the looting of archaeological sites, and the damage to historic monuments that took place during the war and subsequent occupation.
War is the use of military force to attack another nation and damage or destroy its capability and will to resist.
They say neither Asian flu after the first world war nor the Black Death in the Middle Ages did much economic damage either.
The use of these sophisticated weapons, precisely targeted by global positioning satellites, is designed to maximise their effects while limiting collateral damage, which would make the task of post-war reconstruction more difficult.
In the city of Karlovac, the capital of the Karlovac region and the former front line of the war, many of the buildings remain pockmarked by bullets, and the damage intensifies as you reach the outlying villages that had been taken by Serbian forces.
The downturn has led to millions of dollars in losses - and there are predictions that the damage to the industry could be worse than that resulting from the Gulf War 10 years ago.
Former Greek Foreign Minister Stavros Dimas called the suggestion "insulting, " and said Germany should pay reparations for the damage and loss of life the country inflicted on Europe during the Second World War.
It is the player who holds all the aces, and he could inflict serious damage on United's own transfer plans if he decides to become embroiled in a war of attrition with Ferguson.
Before more damage is done to the coherence and integrity of U.S. policy in the war on terror, to the prospects for realizing a genuine and durable Mideast peace and perhaps to the Bush presidency itself, a course correction is required that moves once again in the direction laid out by the President a year ago tomorrow.
But he said the French Government had a good record in dealing with war graves and had managed to build the Channel Tunnel and the TGV high speed railway line without causing significant damage to cemeteries.
Their experience of the American military juggernaut in the first few days of the war was brutal, and many among the British forces now grumble that they have been left to patch up the damage left behind.
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