Both sides immediately placed their forces on a state of war-readiness but the situation was resolved.

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This was my problem with the Leviathan DLC: by the time it came out, I already understood both the mechanics of the narrative and the specific impact of war assets and combat readiness on the ending of the game.

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The United States' prepositioning capacity has almost tripled since the Persian Gulf war, as has its readiness.

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The trial has been seen by observers as a step forward by Serbia in proving its readiness to act against those suspected of committing war crimes during the Kosovo conflict of 1998 to 1999.

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Before the Global War on Terror, the Army was able to mitigate declining readiness by transferring equipment from non-deployed elements to units preparing to deploy overseas.

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That meant a normal willingness to defend its own interests, for example in the European Union, and also a readiness to send troops on such foreign missions as the war in Kosovo.

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With Labor just one seat away from losing its majority, war is imminent, and he is therefore in a state of maximum readiness.

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Facing a long war on its north-western border, it cannot keep up its decades-old readiness on the eastern one.

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Some European leaders have been uneasy at Blair's readiness to echo U.S. President George W. Bush's use of the word "war" to describe the current situation.

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