Britain is unlikely to be fighting major wars without its longstanding ally, so having jets that talk to each other is useful.
In wars without front lines, American generals tend to stay inside fortified bases, where they plan missions and brief political leaders via secure video teleconferences.
Instead, the prevalent Russian theory is that the Chinese will follow the advice of their great military philosopher Sun Tsu, who said the best general wins wars without fighting a single battle.
It kept prices constant through centuries and provided an automatic mechanism to remove international imbalances, such as those that are creating today's currency wars, without the help of any international bureaucracy.
Without a draft, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have been fought by less than one per cent of the population.
Incorporating scientists into the world of aggressive marketing and quarterly earnings forecasts is hard enough without going through the turf wars that accompany a large-scale merger.
Defense contractors Northrop ( NOC), General Dynamics ( GD) and Raytheon ( RTN) face a future without the government spending for two wars.
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To the extent this can be accomplished without panic and sudden squeezes or trade wars, to get back to my worry the world economy will be better off.
After all, Britain, the Scandinavian countries and other parts of Europe experienced modernizing reforms without convulsions like the Terror and the Napoleonic wars.
Dan Ingvaldson, a researcher at ISS, says movies, many of them not yet released to theaters, have made the rounds through these underground networks, making it conceivable that someone has already seen Star Wars: Attack of the Clones without having to pay for it.
Those who claim that Israel cannot manage without US military aid ignore the fact that neither of these wars had any discernible impact on the economy.
Germany helped trigger the Balkan wars with its speedy recognition of the seceding Yugoslavian territories without any protection for Serbian minorities.
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The Persian Gulf War and the Iraq and Afghan Wars a decade later are the first major wars in America's history that have been fought without broad-based conscription to mobilize all levels of American society.
"It won't be a real campaign without late-night jokes, " says Darrell West, a Brown University professor and author of Air Wars, a study of television's effect on politics.
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