Perhaps we are confused by the morality of war or the inner workings of the military machine.
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The ease with which America toppled the Taliban in Afghanistan promised a cakewalk in Iraq, which the American military machine duly delivered.
Mitsubishi's hand-in-glove relations with Tokyo continued through WWII, when it cranked out Zero fighters, battleships and Kirin beer to keep Japan's military machine going.
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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The mighty military machine that awed the world in the Six-Day War of 1967 has ominously morphed into something resembling the hollow French army of 1940.
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.
Not only does it fuel a growing communist military machine at home, but it's heavily invested in Iraq and the ugly slave state of Sudan -- both on the State Department list of terrorist regimes.
Within the last few months we have seen the dictator of Iraq err his way into the devastation of the military machine that successive Iraqi regimes over decades spent scores of billions of dollars to construct.
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 in foreign affairs he will anyway not be able to summon all the familiar, muscular instruments of power available to his predecessors: America's military machine as well as its money machine is on the rack.
Ultimately the use of U.S. ground forces, despite the fanciful notions that some in the press have about Taleban fighting skills, will expose the Taleban to attack by a military machine that possess a degree of firepower and an ability to destroy the enemy at long range that will make the coming intensified air attacks seem inviting by comparison.
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.
Players fight zombies with an AC-130 military cargo plane equipped with enormous machine guns.
For those who remain, the military is a stripped-down machine.
In a new report entitled Retooling the Soviet Military: Dangerous Decontrol Actions on Machine Tools, the Center expressed concern about the wisdom of the United States government and allied nations delegating decisions affecting their vital security interests to representatives of commercial concerns with a vested interest in weakening the technology security regime.
China is now supplying its own demand for five-axis machine tools used throughout its military.
The recent attacks involved only the crudest weapons no machine-guns or other military arms in a part of the world awash with them.
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.
There are reports that the Soviet Union has continued, also in violation of the U.N. embargo, to provide Iraq both directly and indirectly with military equipment and spare parts needed to maintain its war machine.
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"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.
Moreover, unless and until the prospective recipients of advanced machine tools cease to be part of a military organization and intelligence apparatus inimical to Western security interests, no liberalization of the plus-or-minus ten micron standard can be justified.
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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