First, it is hard to run as war leader and tax-cutter-in-chief at the same time.
Early Welsh texts do not refer to him as a king, but as an emperor or war leader.
He said British forces "actually liked Margaret Thatcher, " describing her as "very much like Winston Churchill" as a war leader.
In that case, a prime minister who had come to think of himself as a war leader might quickly become insufferable.
Exploiting his reputation as a tough war leader is therefore likely to remain attractive to Mr Bush and his campaign advisers.
Indeed, are not Mr Blair's putative strengths as a war leader simply the obverse of his known defects as a peace leader?
He had made himself Italy's longest-serving post-war leader by purveying unceasing optimism to an electorate naturally inclined to look on the bright side.
Given all these risks, why should he choose to stress his record as a war leader almost at the start of the general election campaign?
Churchill's attack on his trusted wartime deputy was immediately used by Attlee to highlight the difference between Churchill the war leader and Churchill the divisive political partisan.
But Mr Blair is not the only pro-war leader whose support is slipping: Mr Bush, too, is feeling some heat in the aftermath of the Iraq war.
So far we've talked to the anti-war leader Cindy Sheehan and to a woman named Kayla Williams, who wrote a book about her experiences as a soldier in Iraq.
Next, presenting himself as a war leader gives him extra arguments against two powerful criticisms: that his economic management has been poor and that the war on Iraq was unnecessary.
Throughout the campaign, Mr Bush's team has insisted that any debate about Iraq was good for him because it plays to his strength as a war leader in a period of national security threats.
Willy Brandt International Airport, named for Germany's famed Cold War leader, was supposed to have been up and running in late 2011, a sign of Berlin's transformation from Cold War confrontation line to world class capital of Europe's economic powerhouse.
The funeral -- officially ceremonial rather than a state occasion in a distinction invisible to all but the most pedantic royal watcher -- was the first for a former prime minister and war leader since Winston Churchill's body was borne along the same route a generation ago.
For the first time since the war, the leader of Vietnam has visited Washington, D.
War Veterans' leader Chenjerai Hunzvi has declared that they will not move.
The most notorious wanted LRA leader is war crimes suspect Joseph Kony.
It would appear that the stores in the south of that great country have got themselves locked into a price war on a loss leader.
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Both actions started with the use of ground forces ruled out, saw escalating airstrikes, the indictment of the enemy leader for war crimes, and when hope of a quick solution by airpower faded, the dispatch of attack helicopters to the theatre.
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Seiji Maehara - the public's favourite - would, at 49, become Japan's youngest leader since World War II.
"It was the first time since World War II that a Japanese leader was asking people to risk their lives, " he said.
The Life Story of David Lloyd George - a two-and-a-half hour epic about the UK's leader during World War I - had been presumed lost after it disappeared in 1918.
He also dropped a heavy hint now confirmed by Mrs Albright that America expects Radovan Karadzic, the Bosnian Serbs' ex-leader and indicted war criminal, to be brought to justice in The Hague.
Winston Churchill, Britain's leader during Word War II, looking back to his days as an imperial policy-maker, used to say he created Jordan with a stroke of the pen one Sunday afternoon.
LaValle, a West Point grad, former Army infantry platoon leader and Afghan war veteran, has dived head-on into the life of start-ups along with Tian He to launch Gojee.com, a food technology platform.
It is under this pressure that farmers' leaders have petitioned the president and begun their third legal process to order him, the chief of police and the leader of the war veterans to end the occupations.
De Gaulle was briefly the leader of post-war France before resigning in disgust over the country's political system, which he considered unworkable.
Britain agreed to hold Charles Taylor in prison if the former Liberian leader is convicted of war crimes at his trial in The Hague.
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