If there is a war, the United States would approach its post-war work with a two-part resolve: a commitment to stay and a commitment to leave.
When dealing with traditional prisoners of war, as the United States did in World War II, Korea, and even Vietnam, it was reasonable to err on the side of leniency and treat detainees with deference and respect.
Now that they are gone, the prospect of war between EU states has become unthinkable.
He's crippled by debt, and crippled physically too, a souvenir from the War Between the States.
France sought to impose a monarchy over democratic Mexico while U.S. foreign power weakened during the War Between the States.
This was true for the Allies after World War I, for the United States during the Cold War and for Israel after signing the peace treaty with Egypt.
But when the United States War Refugee Board approached him about traveling to Budapest to try and save the largest remaining concentration of Jews in Europe, Wallenberg answered that call.
Those of you captivated by the war between the states during this 150th anniversary year can also take advantage of this week to visit historic battlegrounds such as Manassas, Chickamauga, Shiloh, Fort Sumter, and Antietam.
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The tug-of-war between the states and the federal government has been a perennial of American politics from the founding of the republic, but striking the right balance between the two has always been best achieved in the political arena, not the courtroom.
As Bush embarked on that war, the United States had never used armed drones in combat.
Throughout the Cold War, the United States struggled to define a relevant and affordable force-sizing standard.
On December 11, 1941, four days after Pearl Harbor, Germany declared war on the United States.
Japan, Germany and Austria found themselves occupied after declaring war on the United States.
Mr Pastrana has aligned Colombia even more closely with the United States' war on drugs.
Not until the Second World War did the United States establish what would become a standing army.
Those who have perpetrated these acts are waging war against the United States.
James Holmes and Toshi Yoshihara of the United States Naval War College have followed the uses and abuses of Mahan.
After the 1991 Gulf War, the United States put in place a "no-fly" zone in Northern Iraq, covering much of Iraqi Kurdistan.
Cold War, the United States has an abiding requirement for nuclear deterrence.
Here, though, he concludes that the letter Lincoln had in mind probably would have led Great Britain to declare war on the United States.
Secretary Schlesinger also impressed upon Senators that, notwithstanding the end of the Cold War, the United States has an abiding requirement for nuclear deterrence.
During the Cold War, the United States and the Soviet Union, jockeying for influence on the Horn of Africa, poured weapons into Somalia and Ethiopia.
Obama argued the now widely unpopular Iraq war distracted the United States from more pressing concerns, and touted his early opposition to the 2003 invasion.
And we are still grateful that so many Germans found asylum and a safe place to live during the Second World War in the United States.
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There was never a nuclear war between the United States and the Soviet Union, in large part because each country was deterred from attacking the other.
It is certainly true that hundreds of millions of Muslims the world over are not seeking to wage war against the United States, or other non-Muslim states.
Since the fall of the Ottoman Empire in World War I, Arab states like Egypt and Saudi Arabia have been the widely recognized leaders of the Islamic world.
Research into seabed minerals has a long and slightly conspiratorial history, starting in the Cold War with the United States and the Soviet Union surveying the oceans ahead of possible future conflict.
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