There were two major wars against the Communists in Vietnam.
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Vietnam fought wars against both America and China in the 1970s.
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Its forces have long battlefield experience from fighting wars against Israel.
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Israel has fought three wars against Hamas in the past decade.
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Would we have been spared from two wars against Saddam, Sept.
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Little input into our de facto wars against ISIS and Syria.
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And so there is threat of war in the air most days, and that means every kind of war, including trade wars, wars against immigrants, wars against the news media, renewed cold wars or arms races.
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Legal and regulatory battles are often used as proxy wars against rivals.
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Trump would do well to consider the statues he will have passed over the last mile or so — Americans who fell in wars against slavery and wars against fascism, Americans who fought for equal opportunity and fair play.
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America has fought and won two wars against fascism and white supremacy already.
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Since it took power it has fought three wars against the Jewish state.
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Hezbollah leaders have said they could be deployed in future wars against Israel.
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There were wars against villains, against dragons, and against an army of the undead.
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Yet that domestic repression did not translate into suicidal wars against the United States.
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That complexity has dismayed Israel, which has fought several wars against Hamas and Hezbollah.
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But he's good at one thing: waging reality TV personality wars against coastal elites.
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Since 2007 Israel has fought three wars against Hamas and other militant groups in Gaza.
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Its armed forces have long experience of military action after fighting numerous wars against Israel.
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Gaza is under the control of Hamas Islamists, who have fought three wars against Israel.
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She has fought wars against the status quo and its keepers, the teachers' union leadership.
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Farmers, gardeners and groundskeepers used the newly available chemicals in their domestic "wars" against pests.
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He has waged two wars against Hamas in Gaza, fending off calls for a full reinvasion.
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After four ruinous wars against Israel, there are signs that it wants a policy change as well.
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Dagestan borders Chechnya, where Moscow fought two wars against Islamist separatists before regaining control of the region.
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And Presidents Madison, Polk, Johnson, and Nixon waged their own illegal, undeclared wars against various foreign powers.
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Over the next 13 years, Guzmán won a series of ferocious turf wars against rivals and former allies.
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Dagestan borders Chechnya, where Moscow has led two wars against separatists and religious extremists since the 1991 Soviet collapse.
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Its military doctrine envisages fighting simultaneous land wars against Pakistan and China while retaining dominance in the Indian Ocean.
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Chapo waged bloody wars against rival traffickers, and was accused of personally torturing and executing at least three men.
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It was part of a larger rebuke of a Republican Party that has spent decades waging culture wars against progressives.
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Historically, Egypt fought four wars against Israel over 25 years, conflicts that remain deeply ingrained in the country's collective memory.
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Israel has fought three wars against the militant groups in Gaza over the past decade, the last one in 2014.
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He called for rearmament before both world wars against the hopes and convictions of the pacifists and appeasers in power.
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By waging aggressive tax and spending wars against blue states they may politically destroy blue state Republicans for a generation.
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The territory has been controlled by Hamas for more than a decade, during which it has fought three wars against Israel.
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There is no desire from the American public for large-scale ground wars against groups such as ISIS and al Qaeda.
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Since then, predominantly Hindu India and Muslim-majority Pakistan have fought three wars against each other -- two of them over Kashmir.
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Moscow has waged two wars against separatists in its predominantly Muslim region since the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991.
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Israel and Hezbollah, the group it describes as the greatest security threat on its border, have fought wars against each other.
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Being smart and reasonable about the costs and benefits of every strategy decision is critical to winning wars against all enemies.
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Many of the pupils were children of cadres and party members killed during the wars against the French and the Americans.
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The tiny region borders Chechnya, where Moscow has led two wars against separatists and religious extremists since the 1991 Soviet collapse.
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We have in the Mideast an endless series of wars against an endless series of foes with no end in sight.
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Some militants in Dagestan, which borders Chechnya, where Moscow led two wars against separatists in 1990s, have sworn allegiance to Islamic State.
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But he said the United States would not reflexively support all of Saudi Arabia's proxy wars against Iran throughout the Middle East.
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That's why wars against Israel don't last long, with most lasting less than a year and the shortest lasting just six days.
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Ackman is also famous for shorting shares of companies and waging public wars against them, notably his five year campaign with Herbalife.
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For a long time now, both J.K. Rowling and Stephen King have been waging their own private Twitter wars against Donald Trump.
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Also, small-government conservatism has taken a back seat to cultural wars against liberal-dominated institutions like the media, tech companies and academia.
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It is hard to think of another leader who has won so many wars, against such repulsive enemies, on such a tight budget.
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In the 19th century China lost two wars against Britain that were triggered by the smuggling of opium into China by British traders.
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Russia fought two wars against Chechen separatists in the North Causcasus in the 1990s, and more recently has fought Islamist insurgents in Dagestan.
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Russia fought two wars against Chechen separatists in the North Caucasus in the 1990s, and more recently has fought Islamist insurgents in Dagestan.
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"We will not achieve the kind of clearly defined victory comparable to those that we won in previous wars against nations," Obama said.
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He can and should act now, independently, by signing an order that defines the boundaries of the current wars against various terror groups.
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This strategy also included directly supporting local actors in proxy wars against US and European-supported forces in Angola and Mozambique, in particular.
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Now, about 7,300 American commandos operate in 92 countries — many in shadow wars against terrorists in Yemen, Libya, Somalia and other hot spots.
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As ongoing wars against the Islamic State and the Taliban demonstrate, the U.S. also maintains sufficient resolve to deploy and wield force when necessary.
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The narrow seaside territory has been ruled by Hamas, an Islamist group, since 2007, during which time it has fought three wars against Israel.
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Disney launched its new streaming platform Disney Plus on Tuesday, bringing Disney into the streaming wars against the likes of Netflix and Amazon Prime.
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At the same time Bolton is also a longtime and well-known advocate of preemptive wars against regimes such as Iran and North Korea.
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In Beijing, many people applauded the government's decision to revise the textbooks, which are filled with references to wars against "aggression" by foreign forces.
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Arab armies came together to wage wars against the Jewish state, and many governments later provided financial and military aid to armed Palestinian factions.
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If the commander in chief may unilaterally begin new wars against new enemies whenever he wants, the resulting carnage can mount into the millions.
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Today, Trump wages political wars against Attorney General Jeff Sessions, Acting FBI Director Andrew McCabe, Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein and special counsel Robert Mueller.
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The Pentagon's planned 2017 budget will shifts its focus to future wars against near-peer competitors Russia and China, Defense Secretary Ashton Carter said Tuesday.
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Those substate actors are difficult to defeat militarily, and wars against them could exacerbate the failed-state dynamics that Iran has proved adept at exploiting.
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Taxpayers are called on to pay for wars against human enemies, so might be expected to stump up for one against a less tangible foe.
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While president, Saleh waged six wars against the Houthis from 2002 to 2009 and was for many years an ally of convenience for Saudi Arabia.
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Islamic Jihad operates with a measure of independence from Hamas, the Islamist group that has controlled Gaza since 2007 and fought three wars against Israel.
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Baldwin's Trump admitted that such turns of phrase — and proxy wars against the National Football League — are part of a larger plan to distract the public.
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In the 19th century China was defeated in two wars against Britain that were caused by British sales of contraband opium produced from Indian-grown poppies.
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We're actually genuinely surprised that wars against Iraq, created by Western colonizers, have ultimately helped incubate a global terrorist movement that has aspirations of imperial conquest.
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Strengthening their ties, which were forged in wars against Nazism and then communism, is a good way of reminding both countries of their common liberal heritage.
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Trump insults democratic leaders as he praises foreign dictators, wages trade wars against democratic allies, undermines democratic security alliances and divides and threatens democratic economic alliances.
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A new Forrester report predicts IBM and Oracle will stop trying to win in the cloud wars against Amazon Web Services, Microsoft, Google Cloud, and Alibaba.
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The Gaza Strip, home to 2 million people, is run by the Islamist group Hamas which has fought three wars against Israel in the past decade.
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Its website says the group runs three burns and trauma centers in Gaza, whose Islamist Hamas rulers have fought three wars against Israel in the last decade.
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Thirdly, they can keep production steady using higher-grade ores, but they will likely have to enter into bidding wars against each other to secure sufficient supply.
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The territory has been run by Hamas since 2007, during which time Israel has fought three wars against the militant group, which denies Israel's right to exist.
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More than 7,300 Special Operations troops are working around the world, many of them conducting shadow wars against terrorists in Yemen, Libya, Somalia and other hot spots.
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More than 24,300 Special Operations troops are working around the world, many of them conducting shadow wars against terrorists in Yemen, Libya, Somalia and other hot spots.
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Chechnya fought two wars against Russia after the 1991 Soviet collapse, but now, in return for generous subsidies and a wide degree of autonomy, pledges loyalty to Moscow.
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Saudi Arabia and Iran are regional archrivals that fight proxy wars against each other by backing opposite sides in conflicts throughout the region, including in Iraq and Syria.
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The legal underpinning of our deployments to Niger and Yemen is the same that authorized our conventional wars against al Qaeda and the Taliban in Afghanistan and Iraq.
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The center of Grozny, the capital of the Russian republic of Chechnya, is unrecognizable to anyone who saw it during the country's two most recent wars against Russia.
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The attack on Colombia's capital brings back memories of the worst moments of the country's long wars against leftist insurgent groups and against Pablo Escobar, a drug-trafficking kingpin.
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Blaming sanctions for a government's decision to use its resources to fight wars against its own people while regime officials enrich themselves personally is to provide a convenient scapegoat.
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The Kimberley Process seeks to end trade in conflict diamonds, also known as blood diamonds, which it says are used by rebel groups to finance wars against legitimate governments.
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This time, showrunners Avi Issacharoff and Lior Raz have set much of it in the Gaza Strip, where the armed Islamist faction rules and has fought three wars against Israel.
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Public records indicate that the military's interest in memes picked up after 2001, spurred by the wars against jihadist terrorist groups and the parallel "War of ideas" with Islamist ideology.
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Similarly, when Trump wages trade wars against America's neighbors in Canada and Mexico, and America's democratic allies in Europe, he frightens and alarms voters in states and sectors that export.
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When 9/11 happened a year later, I was prepared to be skeptical when the neoconservatives responded by proposing wars against countries that had no real connection to the attackers.
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The strikes on a training camp run by a Pakistani-based militant group have dramatically escalated tensions between the nuclear-armed neighbors, who have fought three wars against each other.
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Terrorist acts occurred regularly in Russia following the Soviet collapse, with particularly intense periods when the Kremlin waged wars against Islamic separatists in Chechnya, a republic in the North Caucasus.
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The Marines are making the same case for how they will transform the heavy force that&aposs grown used to fighting drawn out counterinsurgency wars against guerrilla-style tactical foes.
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The series is an adaptation of Bernard Cornwell's 10-book Saxon Stories, about how wars against invading Vikings led to the various Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of Britain uniting as England.
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Republicans and Democrats predict this high-tech way of putting words in someone&aposs mouth will become the latest weapon in disinformation wars against the United States and other Western democracies.
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The jury seemed to be asking if drug wars — against Los Zetas and other cartels — referenced elsewhere in the indictment could be used to convict Chapo on this one specific charge.
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And it comes as Special Force troops are being drawn deeper into shadow wars against militant Islamists on the continent — wars that have no military solution, according to those mired within them.
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His men have massacred and raped civilians in wars against rebels in Darfur and the south, acts that have led the ICC to indict him and some of those closest to him.
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Yeni Safak has said one of the bombers was from Dagestan, which borders Chechnya where Moscow has led two wars against separatists and Islamist militants since the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991.
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Do you believe, Mr. Vice President, that the United States should wage trade wars, tariff wars and economic wars against allies and adversaries, as Trump does, or do you condemn such policies?
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I've argued the Middle East is in the midst of a modern Thirty Years' War — multiple political and religious struggles, civil wars, wars against non-state actors, proxy wars, regional wars, etc.
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Saleh waged six wars against the Houthis from 2002 to 2009 before he made an impromptu alliance with the group that seized the capital Sanaa in 2014 and eventually turned on him.
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But it seems at least reasonably possible that this would unite the parties of those wars against the United States, potentially miring the US in both conflicts at tremendous military and diplomatic cost.
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Daily newspaper Yeni Safak has said the Russian bomber was from Dagestan, which borders Chechnya, where Moscow has led two wars against separatists and Islamist militants since the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991.
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Some point to the administration's ongoing reviews of the wars against ISIS and in Afghanistan to justify their public absence, saying they don't feel comfortable speaking until there is a new, stated policy.
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Things got worse after 13 people were killed at Fort Hood in 2009 by a Muslim Army psychiatrist who said the United States' wars in Iraq and Afghanistan were wars against all Muslims.
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Google Cloud will need to watch its back because next year, Alibaba will likely steal its third place spot in the cloud wars against Amazon and Microsoft, according to a new Forrester report.
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Such a response would have been all but unthinkable even a decade ago, much less during the period between 1948 and 1973, when Egypt and its Arab allies fought three wars against Israel.
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Perform has not yet announced which countries will be next as part of that global rollout, but it is unlikely that Skipper will soon be engaged in bidding wars against his former company.
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It is also home to the largest US military base in the Middle East, which coordinates the wars against ISIS and the Taliban and is also the launchpad for airstrikes against these groups.
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In the decade since, Hamas has fired thousands of rockets at civilian centers in Israel, survived three wars against the Israeli Army and, according to Israeli officials, continuously built up its military force.
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In the 1980s and 1990s, federal and state governments went on a criminal justice binge, vastly expanding our criminal codes, especially in the "wars" against crime and drugs and deploying zero-tolerance policing.
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He believes the US can still successfully fight the wars of yesteryear — World War-style conflicts — but hasn't yet mastered how to win wars against insurgents, which are smaller fights against groups within countries.
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The pro-government Yeni Safak newspaper said the Russian bomber was from Dagestan, which borders Chechnya, where Moscow has led two wars against separatists and religious militants since the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991.
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Chechnya was brought to heel by Russia after two wars against pro-independence rebels there in the 1990s which killed tens of thousands of people and reduced the region's towns and cities to rubble.
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The fact that bin Laden's beloved mother is an Alawite may help explain why bin Laden never advocated for or fought wars against the Shia, as have other Sunni jihadist groups, such as ISIS.
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Read about acne or, worse yet, experience it, and you'll notice the militaristic terminology: Blackheads are a battle that must be won; we wage wars against whiteheads; treatment must be swift, aggressive, and unrelenting.
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Viewed one way, he's trying to globalize priorities from his time as mayor of New York, where he waged wars against smoking and trans fats and coaxed people to eat smarter and exercise more.
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Fifth, Moscow knows that wars against Israel end badly for Arabs and bring the U.S. back into the Middle East in a big way so it seeks to avoid provocative moves in that direction, e.g.
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But it's worth considering as America wages forever wars in Afghanistan, Iraq and Syria (where we still deploy thousands of troops), and Israel wages equally endless wars against Hamas in Gaza and Hezbollah in Lebanon.
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The Crusades, Constantine and the Roman Empire, the Greek wars against Persia, the Babylonian Captivity — all of it could be summoned in an instant to justify a historic claim to an attractive parcel of land.
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"They are the ones who pushed you to fight wars against the honorable and loyal people in your society then abandoned you and called you are a thief and a criminal." editing by Peter Graff
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Still reeling from low oil prices, a currency crisis, and expensive wars against militants blowing up its pipelines in the south and Boko Haram rampaging in the north, the country's economy has sunk into recession.
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The handling of the economy has already emerged as a major issue at the start of the election cycle in Africa's top oil producer, which also plays a key role in regional wars against Islamist insurgents.
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Captain Smith is asking the courts to reject the Obama administration's argument that Congress's approval of President George W. Bush's wars against Afghanistan in 2001 and Iraq in 2002 sufficed to authorize its war of 2014.
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Yet in the next breath, Mr. Meshal acknowledged that such a rapprochement could be tricky with Hamas's main arms supplier, Iran, which is engaged in proxy wars against Saudi Arabia in the region's most explosive conflicts.
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Israelis have in recent decades contended with a Palestinian uprising in the occupied territories, wars against Islamist guerrillas in the Gaza Strip and Lebanon and occasional fire from Syria and an insurgency in the Egyptian Sinai.
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Russian forces fought two brutal wars against Chechen insurgents; but the region, though it still faces a limited low-level Islamist insurgency, has now been given a large measure of autonomy within Russia and been rebuilt.
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JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Mossad director Meir Dagan, who after a long career spearheading shadow wars against Israel's enemies became a vociferous critic of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's sabre-rattling on Iran, died of cancer on Thursday, aged 71.
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For the Swiss, conquering the Alps — in this case, with a 1,345-foot boring machine, unlike the elephants used by the Carthaginian general Hannibal in one of his wars against Rome — is something of a national obsession.
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But the exercise is part of a pattern of the Corps conducting exercises of increasing size as the branch moves its attention away from Middle East deployments to potential future wars against adversaries like China and Russia.
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The small republic in the Caucasus mountains borders Chechnya, where Moscow has led two wars against separatists and radical religious groups since the 1991 Soviet collapse and which has seen a large number of people join Islamic State.
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This undermines our unity, strengthens our enemies and divides America from the democratic world as Trump does when he repeatedly threatens trade wars against allies and rejects international agreements such as the Paris accord to combat climate change.
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In May 1912 an amendment banning race-based political mobilization was signed into law, setting off protests that resulted in Cuban troops killing nearly 3,000 Afro-Cubans, many of whom had fought in the independence wars against Spain.
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At a time when the U.S. has declared trade wars against its biggest partners, Mastercard said today that it is launching a new platform that can cut through and allow trillions of dollars in cross-border business to continue.
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Conservative American Christians retort that despite that pact, their country went on to fight two tough wars against those Muslim rulers, who were a threat to American merchant ships—though of course religion may not have been a factor.
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Now, both the GOP health-care policy fiasco and the GOP tax plans could destroy the political careers of Republicans who represent blue states, while Bannon wages his political wars against moderately conservative Republicans and GOP leaders in Congress.
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In fact, he says, the ideal of a "decisive battle" waged by great leaders should be seen as a pernicious myth that takes weaker, fascistic powers into wars against nations they know they cannot defeat in the long run.
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In 22016, Saudi Arabia was willing to see oil prices tumble during a supply glut partly, diplomats said, because cheaper oil cut the income of arch-rival Iran, limiting Tehran's capacity to finance proxy wars against Saudi interests in the region.
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The six-day war was the last unalloyed military victory for Israel, and the start of a transition from existential wars against Arab states, which it always won, to enervating campaigns against non-state militias which it could never wipe out.
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Unilateral Israeli withdrawals from Lebanon in 2000, and from Gaza in 2005 (after Arafat's death), did not bring peace either: Israel fought repeated wars against Hamas and Hizbullah (a Lebanese Shia militia), both of which fired numerous rockets at Israel.
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The republic is formally a part of the Russian Federation, but the Kremlin, which has fought two brutal wars against a separatist insurgency there over the past three decades, gives Mr. Kadyrov a high degree of autonomy to crush dissent.
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With Mr. Trump embattled at home, there's a real danger that in his eagerness for a successful visit he will agree to almost anything his hosts desire, like more American involvement in proxy wars against Iran in Yemen and Syria.
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More broadly, Democrats in recent cycles have fallen behind in the data wars against Trump, with his ability to efficiently enlist supporters for fundraising and turnout without spending (as weaker candidates must) vast amounts of money simply to identify potential backers.
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Hardly anyone was untainted, including our cherished Puritan forebears, who not only held African slaves but also waged wars against New England Natives, kept some as slaves for themselves, and sent others to work on plantations in Barbados and Jamaica.
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Two million Palestinians, mainly stateless descendants of people who left what is now Israel 70 years ago, live in the Gaza Strip, which has been controlled by Hamas for more than a decade, during which it has fought three wars against Israel.
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Backed with a seemingly endless war chest of funding, Didi has not only launched proxy wars against Uber through investments in many of its international competitors — including both Ola and Careem — the company has also physically launched in Mexico, Uber's third-largest market.
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One major sticking point is who will control security in Gaza, where Hamas's military wing has built up a formidable arsenal of thousands of rockets, missiles and drones, as well as a network of fortified tunnels, and has fought three wars against Israel.
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When the Amazons of the world get cities to engage in bidding wars against each other for prime office locations, the upshot is almost inevitability that rich cities end up attracting even more high-end jobs while rich companies end up attracting subsidies.
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Letter To the Editor: Re "Army Special Forces Secretly Help Saudis Combat Threat From Yemen Rebels" (front page, May 4): I'll bet that it's no secret to the Yemenis — as our "secret wars" against Cambodia and Laos weren't "secret" from those victims either.
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Those provisions would have removed PFAS - "forever chemicals" - from millions of Americans' drinking water; addressed funding for the border wall, which will now be deferred to the FY20 Appropriations process; and helped to end the United States' unconstitutional wars against Iran and Yemen.
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As Christian Davenport documented in his book "The Space Barons," SpaceX's success breaking into the commercial space industry has been due in large part to Musk's willingness to wage regulatory and legal wars against entrenched, better-financed competitors, as well as federal agencies.
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Special Forces continue to play a key role in these wars, in part, because there is no demand signal today from the American public to send large conventional armies into the greater Middle East to fight wars against ISIS, al Qaeda and the Taliban.
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Warren noted that she and Biden "were in the bankruptcy wars against each other," referencing their famous Capitol Hill clash over a 2005 bill that she vigorously opposed, but then pivoted to talk about her work with him during his time as vice president.
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At the same time, big technology companies have been brutalizing suppliers and competitors (and, not irrelevantly, publishers of journalism) with a range of questionable tactics — including Amazon's price wars against competitors, Apple's high-handed management of its own App Store, and Facebook's long parade of privacy scandals.
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Trump's expansion of the waiver program has become an talking point for several Democrats vying to defeat him in the 2020 presidential election, including Senators Amy Klobuchar and Elizabeth Warren, who believe the issue can help turn farmers already stung by the trade wars against him.
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A House subcommittee shocked many in late June when it overwhelmingly supported a progressive lawmaker's amendment to repeal the 2001 war authorization that the US has used as the legal basis for wars against a broadening set of terrorist groups in multiple countries since 9/11.
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Trump's expansion of the waiver program has become an unlikely talking point for several Democrats here vying to defeat him in the 2020 presidential election, including Senators Amy Klobuchar and Elizabeth Warren, who believe it can help turn farmers already stung by the trade wars against him.
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Besides the ethnic cleansing against the Rohingya in Rakhine State, the announcement pointed out human rights abuses by the military in Kachin and Shan States, northern mountain areas where the Burmese government has been engaged for many years in civil wars against armies representing ethnic minority groups.
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"GamerGate is remarkable — and attracts the interest of people like me — because it represents perhaps the first time in the last decade or more that a significant incursion has been made in the culture wars against guilt-mongerers, nannies, authoritarians and far-left agitators," he writes.
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Will we mobilize thousands of new soldiers and weapons, convert the economy to a war footing, raise taxes, and do what is necessary to prevail militarily when we have no idea what our strategic political objectives are in these projected wars against North Korea and Iran?
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Both the U.S. and Israel have agreed to confront Iran, and the U.S. continues to support Gulf Arab states in their proxy wars against Iranian-backed groups in Yemen and Syria while warning Iran it will punish any violations of the nuclear deal signed by the Obama administration.
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While America and its allies have spent much of the past 24 years fighting wars against irregular forces in the Middle East and Afghanistan, its adversaries have been studying the vulnerabilities in the Western way of warfare and exploiting technologies that have become cheaper and more readily available.
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Talk of winning conventional wars against Russia or China, or spending over a trillion dollars to modernize an already excessive nuclear arsenal, or weaponizing outer space, as Trump proposed just last week, is more likely to spark a new global arms race than to promote peace and stability.
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Paul's office announced he would get a vote Wednesday on the Kentucky Republican's amendment that would repeal the 2001 and 2002 war authorizations after six months, giving Congress time to pass a new Authorization for Use of Military Force for the wars against Al Qaeda, ISIS and the Taliban.
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The cycle is born of the infeasibility of conservative goals, especially the American right's attempt to reverse the growth of the welfare and administrative state (which even the world's most right-wing parties accept) and its tendency to start unwinnable culture wars against inevitable change (a typical conservative foible).
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In general, for the first six months, Trump's wild ride —rhetorical wars against the deep state, the media, the Democratic-Progressive party, the Republican establishment — has, despite the disdainful assessment of coastal establishmentarians, in truth gained himself some impressive results and, abroad, also put our adversaries sometimes off balance.
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Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany and President Emmanuel Macron of France — representing countries that for ages waged ruinous wars against each other — met in a German city to renew the Élysée Treaty of 1963 that established comity between the two countries as the bedrock for a united Europe.
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"GamerGate is remarkable — and attracts the interest of people like me — because it represents perhaps the first time in the last decade or more that a significant incursion has been made in the culture wars against guilt-mongerers, nannies, authoritarians and far-Left agitators," he wrote in late 2014.
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For years they've acted essentially as a black-market version of nation-states, charging taxes and fees for immigrants crossing through their territories, dictating what roads, buses, or trains they can take, and often forcing them to become cannon fodder for the gangs' seemingly endless wars against one another and the government.
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The disconnect: Older women who waged the wars against sexism don't understand why the prospect of the first female president doesn't excite their younger counterparts; younger women see presidential politics as open to their gender now, so electing a woman in this election -- as opposed to any that follow -- doesn't seem pressing.
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Now, despite a wholesale U.S. demonization of Huawei, the reality of global supply chains has led Trump to keep deferring bans on the Chinese tech firm in the U.S. More broadly, Trump keeps escalating his tariff wars against China, in the misbelief that Beijing is losing, rather than retaliating and defying him.
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After the British, the Burmese military pursued plunder of their own: crony business deals; the plundering of history to produce enemies that might justify its predations; the plundering of truth in an attempt to cover up the villages destroyed, the thousands slaughtered in a succession of wars against Myanmar's ethnic minorities and dissidents.
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Israel has fought three wars against Hamas and the other armed groups in Gaza since 2008 and has been constantly warning that Hamas has been building up its rocket and underground tunnel network since the last cease-fire came into effect in the summer of 2014, in preparation for the next round of fighting.
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Nor is there ever any discussion on the foreign policy picture behind the attacks, namely that Ankara's simultaneous wars against ISIS and the PKK ally Party for Democratic Unity (PYD) in Syria appear to be spilling over into the country, with ISIS and the PKK carrying out retaliatory-style attacks because Turkey is making gains against them in Syria.
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While both Russia and the United States say they share the goal of defeating the Islamic State group in Syria, they are waging parallel but separate wars against the militant group while simultaneously backing opposite sides in the conflict between Russia's ally, President Bashar al-Assad of Syria, and his other opponents, including rebels backed by the United States.
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When Americans did establish independence, the program found expression in the Second Amendment, as Dunbar-Ortiz writes: Although the U.S. Constitution formally instituted "militias" as state-controlled bodies that were subsequently deployed to wage wars against Native Americans, the voluntary militias described in the Second Amendment entitled settlers, as individuals and families, with the right to combat Native Americans on their own.
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From West's perspective, neoliberalism — the kind, in his view, upheld by Obama and enabled by Coates — has not only kept black Americans worse off compared to their white counterparts; it has also taken the oppression of nonwhite groups to a global scale, as demonstrated by the exploitation of Africa and wars against predominantly brown populations in the Middle East and Central Asia.
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American colonists didn't want to bear the brunt of King George III's wars against France, and Hong Kong doesn't want to bear the costs of President Xi Jinping's trade war strategy against the U.S. It will be easier for Beijing to force mainland China's people to swallow the pain of the trade war, because the people aren't as used to economic prosperity over multiple generations.
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The proximity that fosters friendship today was once a source of incredible tension, and while shared values helped align the US and Canada on the same side in wars against Germany and the Cold War with the USSR, Donald Trump has seemed consistently hostile to the idea of an alliance of Western democracies and appears much more comfortable with a whole range of authoritarian regimes.
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Check this out: It's coming from a hole in the air From those nights in Tiananmen Square It's coming from the feel that this ain't exactly real Or it's real but it ain't exactly there From the wars against disorder From the sirens night and day From the fires of the homeless From the ashes of the gay Democracy is coming to the USA If I hadn't already bawled my eyes out last Tuesday night and Wednesday morning I'd cry.
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An increase in lead concentration coincided with Rome's victories in the Punic wars, against Carthage, the largest Phoenician colony, during in the third and second centuries BC. This was followed by a fall during the civil strife of the first century BC, a rise again when Augustus abolished the Republic and brought the pax Romana of the Empire, and another fall during the third century AD, when the state was engulfed once more by civil war, and also suffered invasion from the east.
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Something to do with the marriage of high seriousness and low comedy is at the core of his work; something to do with the wars against false piety, against the fantasy of purity and other forms of sanctimony; something to do with how the novel is playful and capacious enough to contain the life of the mind and the body and the spirit; something to do with human indignation and with human dignity; something to do with an epic disregard for the rigid tedium of conventions and the dishonesties of human life, relationships and consciousness.
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Watch IRIB's full video of the crew, published by The Guardian, here:Read more on Iran tensions:How the Strait of Hormuz, a narrow stretch of water where ships transport $1.2 billion worth of oil every day, is at the heart of spiraling tensions with IranThe UK reportedly told Trump not to threaten Iran while it negotiates for the release of tanker hostagesIran's best weapon in the new tanker wars against the US and UK is looking more and more like a dudIran is squirreling millions of barrels of crude oil in Chinese ports to avoid breaching US sanctions
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