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War

War meaning

Organized, large-scale, armed conflict between countries or between national, ethnic, or other sizeable groups, usually but not always involving active engagement of military forces. | A particular conflict of this kind. | Protracted armed conflict against irregular forces, particularly groups considered terrorists.

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Much, even most, U.S. military history — the Spanish–American War, World War I, World War II, Korean War, Vietnam War, the first and second Iraq wars, the Global War on Terrorism — occurred after the Civil War.

The sheer size of the amount of money that we spend on war and preparing for war and it's war that's not like the war that people saw that were troops on the ground; This is a war that's unseen.

The war metaphor has a long history of rhetorical usage: the war on women, the war on science, the war on religion and the war on graffiti, as well as cultural wars and wars of ideas.

Friedman leaves out America’s military costs to fight the war to defend South Vietnam, the war to defend South Korea, the war to defend Afghanistan, and the costs of defending Western Europe and Japan during the Cold War.

There were attendees from numerous past military conflicts ranging from the Korean war, the Vietnam war, the Iraq war and the Afghanistan war.

Originally just a Civil War-related show, the collector show has expanded to include items from World War I, World War II and the Vietnam War.

So for the past 40 years, we have been waging Jihad, war against terrorism, war against inflation, war against corruption (Ehtesaab) and war for change (Tabdeeli).

The four black granite panels will have text and illustrations describing contributions and sacrifices by local members of the Royal Canadian Navy during: the First World War, Second World War, Korean War, Cold War and Afghanistan.

At the end of the war, a peace treaty would end hostilities, address matters related to the cause of the war, and perhaps include provisions that govern the post-war relationship between the combatants with a focus on transitioning from war to peace.

Some focus on specific events, like World War I, World War II, the Korean War and the Vietnam War.

The Krags were originally used in the Spanish-American War and World War I, and the Garands were used in World War II and the Korean War.

We plan test and evaluation for the war fighter; we support testing for the war fighter; we execute it for the war fighter and we report on it for the war fighter.

China returned to its pre-war industrial production by 1952. citation Impact Casualties and war crimes main World War II deaths Estimates for the total number of casualties in the war vary, because many deaths went unrecorded.

In fact, he never used the term "total war": rather, he discussed "absolute war" or "ideal war" as the purely logical result of the forces underlying a "pure," Platonic "ideal" of war.

Tisza opposed a war with Serbia, stating (correctly, as it turned out) that any war with the Serbs was bound to trigger a war with Russia and hence a general European war.

All Quiet on the Western Front is an anti-war film, showing the realities of the war in 1917, the focus is placed on the cast of characters that make up the German army as well as the officials negotiating the end of the war and Armistice.

He has not allowed war on our land, although they want to export this war to us, bring it on, impose it on us and involve us in this war,” he said.

Medea, in her book and talks, calls this war a stalemate that is not winnable on the battlefield but could lead to World War III or a nuclear war.

This is Jud's war, he wants to go to war at the beginning of the film, and ultimately he's going to stay and fight a war in Ludlow.

War has tragically, despite the threat of an enlarged war and nuclear war, become popularized.