With every advance in American technology, the cost of stooping low enough to bring allies into the battlefield grows higher.

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Now, obviously it is a very difficult thing -- one of the hardest things about my job is ordering young men and women into the battlefield.

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Do you release them back into the battlefield?

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He insists that without understanding the true topography and layout of the battlefield, historians can never fully gain an insight into events from the past.

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Brigadier Shavendra Silva, who commands the battalions that are advancing into this terrain, told journalists during a guided tour of the battlefield last week that the Tigers were fighting out of uniform.

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The battlefield itself is morphing into something very different from what it once was.

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In the days that followed, a constant stream of reports filed by The Associated Press turned Carter into a semi-battlefield celebrity -- a combination of deadly fighting machine, insightful commentator and quipster.

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Battlefield acupuncture is nothing more than sticking a bunch of needles into the ear.

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