Making the world safe for conventional war should not be either our goal or an acceptable outcome.
The IDF needs to prepare for the possibility of a conventional war in the south and the north.
Different rates of fragmentation lead to different indices conventional war is fought with robust armies that are unlikely to fragment, while terrorists are more likely to have shifting alliances.
In other words, for the war in Iraq, the data indicate a transition from an index characteristic of more lethal, conventional war between armies to one closer to terrorism.
It's not like after the Gulf War, a conventional war, where you have a ticker tape parade, and sometimes the measures of effectiveness are just the absence of acts by your opponent.
If we are to maintain the ability to wage conventional war with an all-volunteer force, the public is going to have to encourage young people to enlist and to stay in the military.
Second, even if nuclear weapons could somehow be permanently abolished, absent a wholesale transformation of geopolitics and, for that matter, human nature the effect would simply be to make the world safe for conventional war.
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In order to meet this new challenge, America's military is rapidly attempting to shift its focus from Cold-War era conventional wars to the War for the Free World's rapidly developing contingencies.
And it is possible that this will mean the expansion dies a conventional post-war death after all.
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" Says Richard Haas, director of foreign policy studies at the Brookings Institution in Washington: "Kashmir has the greatest potential to trigger a conventional or nuclear war.
By a Brookings Institution estimate based mainly on Pentagon briefings, some 32, 000 insurgents have been killed or captured since the conventional phase of the war ended in April 2003.
None of these are acts of war in the conventional sense of the term.
The official said some Pentagon war planners believe conventional bombs won't be effective against Fordow and that a tactical nuclear weapon may be the only military option if the goal is to destroy the facility.
We in the KC-135 chewed over such questions as what it means to be at war not with a conventional enemy, but with a network of terrorist organizations and their state sponsors.
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Mr Romney mocks the suggestion that he is gunning for a trade war (let alone a conventional one).
But it says that Baghdad currently possesses only 10-20% of the conventional weapons it had during the Gulf War.
After more than a decade of war, many veterans in conventional military units would also qualify for such preferential treatment.
And the weaker party, if nuclear capable, invariably holds out the threat of nuclear war as a way to deter conventional attack.
Special-operations troops are increasingly spearheading the Afghan war as tens of thousands of conventional forces begin drawing down this year, as the U.S. moves to pull out the majority of its troops by 2014.
North Korea has long said it needs nuclear weapons to prevent South Korea and its U.S. military ally from invading it, though its conventional weapons have provided a deterrent since the Korean War of the 1950s.
That caused the United States to display its military strength in the annual drills taking place now, flying B-2 stealth bombers capable of carrying conventional or nuclear weapons, as well as Cold War-era B-52s and F-22 Raptor stealth fighters over South Korea.
In this type of war, technology counts for less than in conventional conflict.
Since the end of the Iran-Iraq War, Iran decided not to develop a conventional force structure, but to focus instead on missile capacity to harass its neighbors and naval capacity to be able to cause problems in the Persian Gulf.
Sir Samuel's articles express a consistent and meticulously thought-through view of the world one that is deeply concerned with practical politics, but which repudiates conventional ideological labels, revealing the ordinary tug-of-war between the main political tribes as so much worthless blather.
The bad memories of the hero (Denzel Washington), who suspects that the war hero is a fake, are accompanied by the conventional horror-film frights of painted faces, spooky doctors, and smoky, distorted cinematography.
The US recently said it would consider cyber attacks an "act of war", and reserved the right to respond to attacks with conventional means if they were found to have been orchestrated by a nation state.
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