Perhaps we are confused by the morality of war or the inner workings of the military machine.
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Even now, the Syrian military machine -- and the cohesion of the leadership in Damascus -- is far more potent than Gadhafi's mercurial regime.
France at the time was a global superpower, ruled by Emperor Napoleon III, its military machine undefeated since the Battle of Waterloo a half-century before.
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They have devoted their lives and sacrificed the lives of the people under them to protect the property and freedom of those citizens and feel compelled to maintain the military machine that they drive.
Given that Ms Rice was said to have coveted his job running the world's largest military machine, her move to the State Department may mean that Mr Rumsfeld is staying, at least for the time being.
And while some of the latter may look like automatic military-style machine guns, the similarities are primarily cosmetic.
And while some of the latter may look like automatic military-style machine guns, they do not function in that manner.
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For those who remain, the military is a stripped-down machine.
The guns covered by the original were not the fully automatic machine guns used by the military, but semiautomatic versions of those guns.
After joining the army, his first post was in Cyprus as a machine gunner in Dhekelia, the military said.
The camp will be surrounded by machine-gun toting Marines and military police and other security people and people with a variety of other weapons outside, and dogs.
Politicians and community leaders have been trying to tamp down tensions in the wake of the murder of Rigby, a drummer and machine gunner in Britain's military, and police numbers have been boosted in vulnerable areas.
"Recent Mexican army and police force conflicts with heavily armed narcotics cartels have escalated to levels equivalent to military small-unit combat and have included use of machine guns and fragmentation grenades, " said the warning issued last month.
The South American nation, then ruled by military dictator Ernesto Geisel, needed oil to run its industrial machine, which was booming at the time.
Bosnian Serb Military Commander Rhatko Mladic addressed some of those who were later machine gunned, says one eyewitness, described only as a 63 year old Bosnian male.
But hers is an uneven trident: she has lots of EU development money, but her diplomatic machine is still a prototype and she has only a rudimentary military-planning outfit.
Eight American troops and two Afghan security force members were killed Saturday when militants opened fire on an outpost with rockets, mortars and heavy-caliber machine guns, according to an initial U.S. military report on the battle.
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But the Pentagon is a planning machine, so the Defense Department last year came up with a military analysis of a ground option should the president request it.
Ironically, as the debate intensifies over the appropriate controls on the export of machine tools, fresh evidence has just become public concerning the direct military use being made by the USSR of accurate systems illegally acquired from the Italian firm, Olivetti.
Even after the departure of Duvalier, the military continued to harass and attack the radio station, to tear down transmitters and even to machine-gun the facade of the building.
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Among those items reportedly slated for decontrol are sensors capable of testing missile silos, high-speed microprocessors with a wide variety of applications for military systems, solid and liquid rocket motors and spacecraft, advanced lasers, electronic navigation equipment, and sophisticated machine tools.
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