Changes in the global threat environment allowed subsequent Administrations to make adjustments to the two-and-a-half-war standard.
The fundamental reason that the two-theater-war standard still survives is because no credible alternative has ever been proposed.
From the time it was first articulated in 1991, the two-theater-war standard has undergone repeated reviews and revisions.
This evolution culminated in the 2010 Quadrennial Defense Review, which explicitly attempted to move away from the two-theater-war standard.
It professes to adhere to the two-major-theater-war standard while proposing for the second contingency something a great deal less.
The two-major-theater-war standard for sizing the U.S. military is hardly a new idea.
There were no comparable crises during the post World-War II gold standard era ending in 1967.
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Under the post World-War II gold standard, growth averaged 4% compared to less than 3% since going off gold.
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Under the post-World War II gold standard, the unemployment rate averaged only 4.7% a year and never rose above 7%.
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During the post World War II Bretton Woods gold standard, the U.S. economy also grew on average 4% a year.
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So successful was this program of what would today be known as "supply-side reform" that by the eve of World War I, the gold standard had been adopted by all major economies.
More than sixty countries were on the gold standard in the decades before War World I.
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The package includes a standard copy of "Gears of War 3, " a wired headset, plus a download token for bonus game content including the Infected Omen Weapon Pack and the Adam Fenix character for use in multiplayer.
The New York Times has slammed the US government for making an "inexplicable decision" to not apply standard Pentagon regulations for weapons transfers in the Iraq war.
Not only is wireless charging here to stay, but the addition of wireless charging on the Nexus 4 conforming to the Qi standard means we have a winner in the standards war.
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The inter-war period (1918-1939) entailed a gold-bullion standard far less tied to market realities.
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The currency war in the 1930s was facilitated by many countries going off the gold standard, as they tried to revive their economies by lowering the value of their currencies.
In a rare display of openness about storage standards, Sony expressed yesterday that it is now completely open to discussions on creating a single next-generation DVD standard instead of barreling right along into the impending major format war between Blu-ray (which Sony currently backs) and HD-DVD.
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Mariquita is the last of four 19-meter yachts built before World War I, while Tuiga was built to the more popular 15-meter standard.
They have criticized the way the administration has handled the war, but it barely differs from the criticism served up by The Weekly Standard.
The Democrats were about to nominate as their standard bearer Hubert Humphrey, LBJ's loyal, pro-war vice president, even though Humphrey had not competed in a single primary.
And the United States has seen our economy grow along with the standard of living enjoyed by our people, while bringing the Cold War to a successful conclusion.
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Throughout the Cold War, the United States struggled to define a relevant and affordable force-sizing standard.
About 20 standard bearers lined the street as the two hearses pulled up to the war memorial in Wootton Bassett.
With the outbreak of World War I (1914) the central banks of most major countries abandoned the classical gold standard and began issuing fiat paper money.
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"Investors have finally got the idea of what it really means to have seriously different type of recovery than what we have seen in post-World War II history, " says David Mann, head of research in the Americas for Standard Chartered Bank.
Still, we're sure the standard will find a way to operate just fine, but unless a bidding war breaks out and the cost for mobile TV plummets due to all this competition, we're not really sure all these like-minded options are entirely necessary.
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The gold standard was an international institution, and after 1914 and the start of the World War I, a host of major participants (including the U.S., in 1917), suspended gold convertibility.
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Over the next 179 years, except for times of war and a brief interlude during the 1930s, the U.S. remained on a gold standard.
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