Military training gives a much better psychological preparation for war than any amount of counselling, which, he says, tries to create victims.

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The Book of Numbers is so named because of God's command to Moses that he should count the Israelites in preparation for war.

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To be sure, it does not want to risk a war over an action by the other side that falls short of immediate preparation for war.

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Artists get little preparation for war.

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It was not until government spending surged in preparation for World War II that the U.S. job market sprang to life.

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In 2001, Phillips was the first network correspondent to gain exclusive access to CAG 9, the elite Navy air wing, in preparation for the war against the Taliban in Afghanistan.

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