If one of the principal, stated rationalizations for this exercise is to expand the pool of personnel for the armed forces, it would be madness in time of war to be pursuing it when, on net, the effect will actually deprive it of far larger numbers of skilled, experienced troops and officers.
The US government is immune from lawsuits stemming from combat actions by the military in time of war, but courts are still establishing whether independent firms operating in war zones should have the same legal immunity.
Bush administration officials describe two categories of crimes attributable to Saddam's regime: crimes of war committed against American forces during the recent fighting and in the Gulf War, and those committed in time of both war and peace against others.
While the author of the Magic Mountain talked about the complexity of time around World War I, in the 1990s time was compressed here.
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Under amendments to the National Security Act of 1947, which created the position of the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the War Department, now housed for the first time in a building of its own, became the Department of Defense.
But I was also excited by the battle of ideas, and saw the height of ideological combat in the last years of the cold war as an exhilarating time to be alive and thinking.
But we admire these young men who joined the military in a time of war, when there is definitely a danger.
David Petraeus, the current Central Intelligence Agency director who at the time was the commander in charge of the Afghanistan war.
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For example, the sudden leap in to the headlines last week of war time controls of stop and search powers on the streets, which had not been cleared by the Cabinet.
Iraq maintains that it no longer has any such programmes, although one senior Iraqi official has all but admitted that the country came close to building an atomic bomb in 1991, at the time of the Gulf war.
Again, this is the sort of activity the public would expect our government to be doing in time of war.
But failing to invest sufficiently in our defense capabilities in time of war is reckless in the extreme.
Yet, in time of peace the populace views war preparation as leading to those very wars, not as a deterrent.
Mr. Obama's trip to Afghanistan comes at a time of fresh scrutiny of the war in the wake of a series of incidents that have strained relations between the U.S. and the Karzai government.
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Yet, because removing Mr Hussein is remarkably difficult, and criticising the American president in time of war is not done lightly, Congress is likely to pass a vague resolution supporting President Clinton's Iraqi policy.
President Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair stood together in the Rose Garden for the last time Thursday in a news conference that was largely a defense of the Iraq war, an event that has shaped their common legacy.
The years of World War II were a hard, heroic and gallant time in the life of our country.
At the same time, the success of international tribunals in bringing suspected war criminals such as Yugoslavia's former leader Slobodan Milosevic to trial has created a new impetus for righting the serious wrongs of the past.
The worst non-war time inflation in hundreds of years occurred in the decade after the U.S. left the gold standard in 1971 as the Federal Reserve was more biased to promoting growth than containing an oil-shock (sound familiar?).
The most recent involves unearthing glass plates taken in France during or at least around the time of World War I.
"Despite the efforts to focus on Saddam's desires and intentions, the bottom line is Iraq did not have either weapon stockpiles or active production capabilities at the time of the war, " Rockefeller said in a press release.
"Some activities of American prisoners of war within German prison camps must remain secret not only for the duration of the war against the present enemies of the United States but in peace-time as well, " the document says.
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Greece has been in default of its debt half of the time since the end of World War II.
Nothing is of greater importance in time of war than in knowing how to make the best use of a fair opportunity when it is offered.
Is there a chance, though, that your tying the hands of commanders in war time by putting this into federal law?
Because the legislation is so broadly defined, "scientific exchanges" could not be impeded by the President, even in time of war.
Battlefield signal intercepts in time of war are the stock-in-trade of the National Security Agency and, indeed, of military intelligence more generally.
Senator RUDMAN: When the country is in the greatest jeopardy, whether it be in terms of a war, in terms of a terrific economic or natural crisis, that is the time for the courts to be more involved, not less involved.
Critics believe the money would be better spent elsewhere and that Trident belongs in the Cold War era, not at a time of threats to the UK such as international terrorism.
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In 1993, in Geneva, the leaders of Bosnia's Serbs, Croats and Muslims met face to face for the first time in three months to press rival plans for the division of their war-ravaged state.
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