Yet, in time of peace the populace views war preparation as leading to those very wars, not as a deterrent.
Mr Carter apparently read more than 35 books on the war in preparation, and spent seven years writing The Hornet's Nest.
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.
The North views the drills as a provocation and as preparation for war.
Military training gives a much better psychological preparation for war than any amount of counselling, which, he says, tries to create victims.
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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In and of itself only a preparation for war, mobilization was nevertheless considered an act of war, as failure to respond quickly and if necessary, violently would result in an overwhelming advantage to the enemy.
In and of itself only a preparation for war, mobilization was nevertheless considered an act of war, as failure to respond quickly -- and if necessary, violently -- would result in an overwhelming advantage to the enemy.
It was not until government spending surged in preparation for World War II that the U.S. job market sprang to life.
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.
The ideologues were so convinced the war would go well that they massively underestimated the amount of preparation that would be required for the occupation to go reasonably smoothly.
That for all the fantasy about weapons of mass destruction, all the mistakes and lack of preparation, the world is a better place for the war.
But a whole variety of factors - the call-up of certain types of reservists, the chartering of commercial shipping, the reported movement of pre-positioned equipment both to and within the Gulf region - all suggests that if war comes, it could begin with far fewer signs of obvious preparation than many people have argued.
Dado wanted to call up reserves in preparation for a full-scale military attack on the eve of the war.
If it now confronts a messy war and a messy peace, it is largely because it resorted to force with such inadequate preparation.
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