However, when trillions of dollars are spent preparing to fight World War II where warfare no longer bears any resemblance to the way it used to be conducted, is it really unreasonable to review how we are spending all this money and find a few bucks that can be cut?
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"The generals are besotted with the trench warfare of World War I, " said Lord Ashley, who is deaf.
In 1925, following the horrific experience of chemical warfare in World War I, an international convention banning the first use of chemical weapons was signed.
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In 1925, following the horrific experience of chemical warfare in World War I, an international convention was signed which attempts to do nothing more than bar the first-use of chemical weapons.
Iraqi forces also have done an excellent job employing asymmetric warfare, fighting the war on their terms.
Indeed, it was waged everywhere precisely because the threat of nuclear war was so terrible: Covert warfare became a prudent alternative.
This was the first time that we had a situation roughly similar to the First World War where you have a trench warfare and the use of gas of enemy forces.
Mr. Boot, a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, is the author, most recently, of "War Made New: Technology, Warfare, and the Course of History, 1500 to Today" (Gotham Books, 2006).
There were fearsome enough weapons before World War II, including poison gas and germ warfare.
This century opened with the horror of chemical warfare in the trenches of World War I.
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The Humvee served the military well from its inception in the early 1980s until the Iraq war, but once the military became embroiled in counter-insurgency warfare after 9-11, its deficiencies were hard to ignore.
The Web series is being filmed by Radical Media, the production company behind The Fog of War, the Oscar-winning 2003 documentary about the moral complexities of modern warfare, as told by former U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara.
It seems that if you call it a war, we delude ourselves into believing it must be something we can win with warfare.
That was up from 11 million packs sold on 19 million copies of Modern Warfare 2 and 9 million packs sold on 13 million copies of World at War.
Such deaths happen in every instance of urban warfare, from the post-Normandy fighting in the villages of France in World War II to the more recent NATO bombing of Serbia.
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It was an open secret, after the Kosovo war, that American commanders were disappointed by their allies' lack of precision-guided weapons, electronic-warfare equipment and secure communications.
Events include wild elephant hunts, tug-of-war between elephants and men, demonstrations of log-pulling skills, and a parade of elephants outfitted for medieval warfare.
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