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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There was a change in power a year ago, but it really didn't fundamentally alter the kind of World War I style trench warfare between the parties.
We are bound to think it seriously how much our country is in need of all the equipment and weapons of war used in modern warfare so that we may not be lagging behind.
"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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Some might defensively object that an ideological war is different from physical warfare, so the laws that affect the one do not carry over into the other.
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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).
The abysmally deficient condition of U.S. capabilities in these areas is nothing less than a national scandal, particularly in view of the evidence so vividly on display in the war with Iraq that chemical and biological warfare threats continue to proliferate.
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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.
The Japanese had been the aggressors, launching the war with a sneak attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941 and subsequently systematically and flagrantly violated various international agreements by employing biological and chemical warfare, torturing and murdering prisoners of war, and brutalizing civilians and forcing them to perform slave labor.
The president told the cadets Tuesday the war in Afghanistan marks the beginning of a revolution in warfare that will transform battle in the 21st century.
When it comes to the very real battle between gaming giants Activision and Electronic Arts over the virtual war between Battlefield 3 and Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3, enticing gamers to buy one, if not both, of these key fall releases is crucial.
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Clement reiterated the government's argument that never before in the history of warfare has a U.S. prisoner of war had a right to challenge his detention with a habeas corpus petition in the U.S. courts.
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 games were a religious festival, spectators traveling to and fro were pilgrims, and that meant protection from harm under the Panhellenic "sacred truce" not a ban on warfare but usually an effective guarantee of safe passage through war zones for passing sports fans.
The extent to which the behaviour of European wartime leaders between 1939 and 1945 was coloured by their personal experiences in the first world war can sometimes be overplayed did Hitler really avoid gas warfare because he himself had once been the victim of gassing?
"Peripheral Warfare" strategy was recently tested by Iran in its proxy war with Israel, when two of its surrogate forces, Hezbollah and Hamas, utilized specialized missile crews to bomb Israeli civilians, as well as to cause a distraction while it fired upon Israeli border patrols in 2006 to start the Israel-Hezbollah War.
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.
And serious about adopting the policies and programs, including counter-ideological political warfare-related ones, necessary to ensure that we prevail in this War for the Free World.
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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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Toward this end, I believe that every effort should be made, at the federal as well as state and local levels, to raise awareness of this financial warfare opportunity and to encourage both government pension systems and the market to help with the war effort by facilitating terror-free investing.
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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.
Outraged, yes, but it took two years and German resumption of unrestricted submarine warfare in early 1917 (which Mr Roberts strangely postpones to that September) to bring America to war surely the longest reaction-time in the history of galvanism.
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