These are still countries that are digging themselves out of a lot of war, a lot of conflict.
The evidence thus far leads to the conclusion that this was a war of choice and not a war of necessity.
The stabilizing part played by the EU has helped to transform most of Europe from a continent of war to a continent of peace.
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Had the allies of World War II been prepared with a sufficient number of so pedestrian a thing as landing craft, the war might have been cheated of a year and a half and many millions of lives.
For someone of the all-too-common opinion that a strong defense is the cause of war, a favorite trick is to advance a wholesale revision of strategy, so that he may accomplish his depredations while looking like a reformer.
Engaging with the messy complexity of cybersecurity challenges is essential to ensuring that war remains a continuation of politics by other means instead of politics (and every other aspect of daily life) becoming a continuation of war by other means.
Finally, the navy's funding of a celebration commemorating the War of 1812 is simply a small fraction of an annual recruiting budget.
Lebret contends the recent decline comes from the decision of a few retail executives to deemphasize French wine during the war because of a few complaints.
Senator RUDMAN: When the country is in the greatest jeopardy, whether it be in terms of a war, in terms of a terrific economic or natural crisis, that is the time for the courts to be more involved, not less involved.
And so the Strategic Partnership Agreement, this NATO Summit, are all part and parcel of a shared vision that we have in which Afghanistan is able to transition from decades of war to a transformational decade of peace and stability and development.
Her philosophy originated during World War II through her experiences as a prisoner of war in a Japanese concentration camp in Indonesia.
Mr. Roberts, a historian, is author most recently of "The Storm of War: A New History of the Second World War" (Harper, 2011).
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"You know very well this is a pretext of a political war between President Basescu and me, a war each of us leads with their own weapons, " he said.
More likely, however, the Gorbachev military move has started a different kind of war -- a bidding war between politicians for the support of the military.
Johnson's strategy was a war of attrition, a disastrous choice for a democracy.
It's called a war of attrition, a tactic favored by large incumbents like Microsoft against newer, smaller, speedier rivals .
During the second world war a quarter of a million German soldiers succumbed to frostbite and hypothermia in Russia, a help to the allied cause.
In the United States, the National Defense University (NDU), the service schools, and the command and staff colleges all teach the Art of War as a part of the core curriculum.
World War I is a war of empires which comes to its culmination point when a state gets into it.
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The audit is being carried out in partnership with the UK National Inventory of War Memorials, a national database of war memorials administered by the Imperial War Museum and English Heritage.
From the beginning of the Iraq war, a number of officers and policy intellectuals, including Petraeus, believed that the war had to be fought a different way.
Last year, some 3, 000 Afghan civilians died in the Afghan War out of a population of 30 million, which makes the civilian death rate from the Afghan war 1 in 10, 000.
Across the federal government, and certainly in the Department of Defense, we know that after a decade of war we're entering a new era of smaller, tighter, leaner budgets.
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By the end of the war, a third to a half of the Confederate army had deserted, and more than 300, 000 Southern whites were fighting for the Union.
The game has changed from a battle of devices to a war of ecosystems and competitive ecosystems are gaining momentum and share.
"We believe that the industry has shifted from a battle of devices to a war of ecosystems, " Elop said at Nokia's news conference.
Johnson -- the daughter of a Persian Gulf War veteran and mother of a 2-year-old girl -- has always had "an angel following her around" and "always manages to get out of stuff, " her sister Nikki Johnson said Monday.
Vietnam has turned down a request to scatter the ashes of a French war veteran at the site of a battle which helped end colonial rule by France.
Shinty's governing body has appealed for calm following the escalation of a war of words over plans for league reconstruction.
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