The president's insistence that his Libyan campaign is limited in its purposes and duration is no excuse.

奥巴马关于利比亚行动“有限和明确”的说法也不能作为借口。

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For all that, the principle of shortening the duration of a campaign by every possible means remains valid.

虽然如此，仍然不破坏我们所说的力争缩短全战役时间的原则。

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Although the duration of the campaign is not long, but its influence is formidable, to some extent, can create a western modernist literature.

虽然这场运动持续的时间不长，但其影响却不容小觑，在某种程度上，可以说开创了西方现代派文学的先河。

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Between 1993 and 2006, that requirement evolved from the desire to maintain the capability to defeat two conventionally armed aggressors to the need to conduct a campaign against a conventional adversary while also waging a long-duration irregular warfare campaign and protecting the homeland against attack.

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Over time, the requirement evolved from maintaining the capability to defeat two conventionally armed aggressors to a more complex formulation in which the U.S. military was asked to be able to conduct a single campaign against a conventional adversary while waging a long-duration counterinsurgency and stability campaign or protecting the homeland against attack and providing support to civil authorities.

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And Romney will let congressional Republicans know that the payroll tax flap needs to go away for the duration of his campaign.

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