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  War
A war to liberate an occupied country is sometimes characterised as a "war of liberation", while a war between internal elements of the same state may constitute a civil war.
Today war is generally seen as undesirable and, by some, morally problematic, although many view war, or at least the preparation and readiness and willingness to engage in war, as a necessary precursor to the defense of their country against aggressors.
At the outbreak of World War I the writer Thomas Mann wrote, "Is not peace an element of civil corruption and war a purification, a liberation, an enormous hope?" This attitude has been embraced by societies from Sparta and Rome in the ancient world to the fascist states of the 1930s.
www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/w/wa/war.html   (3575 words)

  
 Ongoing wars - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
List of wars - List of wars before 1000 - List of wars 1000–1499 - List of wars 1500–1799 - List of wars 1800–1899 - List of wars 1900–1944 - List of wars 1945–1989 - List of wars 1990–2002- List of wars 2003–current - Ongoing wars
Chadian-Sudanese conflict and the Second Chadian Civil War, extensions of the Darfur conflict
Conflict-Barometer which describes the recent trends in conflict development, escalations, settlements.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ongoing_wars   (160 words)

  
 The World at War
As of mid-2005, there were eight Major Wars under way [down from 15 at the end of 2003], with as many as two dozen "lesser" conflicts ongoing with varrying degrees of intensity.
Most of these are civil or "intrastate" wars, fueled as much by racial, ethnic, or religious animosities as by ideological fervor.
War has caused untold economic and social damage to the countries of Africa.
www.globalsecurity.org /military/world/war/index.html   (299 words)

  
 Slobodan Milošević - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Charges of violating the laws or customs of war and grave breaches of the Geneva Conventions in Croatia and Bosnia and genocide in Bosnia were added a year and a half after that.
In the aftermath of the war, the majority of Kosovo's Serb and Roma population fled into Serbia proper, fearing or experiencing persecution by vengeful Albanians and adding to the country's already large refugee population.
During the Kosovo War he was indicted on 27 May 1999, for alleged war crimes and crimes against humanity allegedly committed in Kosovo, and he was standing trial, up until his death, at the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia, which he asserted was illegal, having been established in contravention of the UN-charter.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Slobodan_Milo%c5%a1evi%c4%87   (5008 words)

  
 DESIP: PART 1
Ongoing civil war between the largely Muslim north and the African south.
The war has been on and off since 1995 but was heightened in 1983 when Khartoum imposed Islamic Sharia which effectively rendered the non- Moslem population of Southern Sudan to second class status.
According to one source, the Tamil/Sinhalese struggle masks the war between the Sinhalese elite and Sinhalese youth which has erupted on a regular basis since the sixties (the last one being the UNP VS. JVP conflicts of the mid-80s) and resulted in largely unreported killing of thousands, mostly students.
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 Rafferty Review: Summer 2005   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Haldi, of both the Naval War College and Gettysburg College, opens her book with the observation that states entering an ongoing conflict “may have interests and policies entirely distinct from those of the initial combatants.” The book seeks to reveal these interests.
Haldi’s study encompasses great-power wars between 1700 and 1973, with a focus on the Seven Years’ War, the French Revolutionary War, the Napoleonic Wars, the Crimean War, and World War I. Additional cases of great-power wars susceptible to widening are included in an appendix.
Her conclusions drawn from European great-power wars are not clearly applicable to the contemporary international system, simply because the threat of such wars, let alone war widening, is negligible.
www.nwc.navy.mil /press/Review/2005/summer/br2-su05.htm   (655 words)

  
 Bush Wants $80B More for Ongoing Wars
The deficit estimates for 2005 and for the next 10 years, however, were excluding war costs and other expenses, thanks to quirks in the way the law requires the budget office to make its estimates.
On the war financing front, White House budget chief Joshua Bolten or other administration officials were expected to describe Bush's forthcoming request for funds on Tuesday, according to congressional aides who spoke on condition of anonymity.
By pushing war spending so far beyond $280 billion, the latest proposal would approach nearly half the $613 billion the United States spent for World War I or the $623 billion it expended for the Vietnam War, when the costs of those conflicts are translated into 2005 dollars.
www.military.com /NewsContent/0,13319,FL_wars_012505,00.html   (738 words)

  
 BioEd Online: Is terrorism the next format for war?
Ongoing wars in Iraq and Colombia, which had quite different causes and began as very different kinds of conflict, are developing a characteristic signature of long-term terrorist activity, say economist Mike Spagat of Royal Holloway, University of London, and his co-workers.
Kaldor asserts that US military action in Iraq has been predicated on the view that it is a war of the sort that was fought until the middle of the twentieth century, where two military states battle for control of a territory.
All wars and conflicts seem to generate a common and distinctive pattern of death statistics.
www.bioedonline.org /news/news-print.cfm?art=1898   (734 words)

  
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WAR DATABASE by Ronald Bleier (rbleier@igc.apc.org) I'd like invite contributions from the on-line community to this compilation of ongoing and incipient wars, war related situations and war related information.
I have seen the statistic that there are about 30 ongoing wars and I have managed to come up with a list of about 20 so far.
Sudan civil war between Muslim north and African south; began in 1983; 100,000 refugees in Zaire and Central African Republic; (IPS, October '95) 12.
www.textfiles.com /politics/SPUNK/sp001413.txt   (1026 words)

  
 List of wars - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This is a list of lists of wars, sorted by country, date, region, and type of conflict.
This list is incomplete; you can help by expanding it.
List of wars and disasters by death toll
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_wars   (162 words)

  
 News > Interviews > Scott Allie
The original ongoing series is set during the time of the Prequels (Episodes 1-3), and we thought why not just do a series like that set during the time of the original trilogy (Episodes 4-6).
Now Star Wars stories can be written with these two series in mind, both of which we have put a lot of energy into to make sure that they are really good.
I went through the Star Wars Beastiary to try to pick out some interesting animals to put into it, and we have one of those creatures in a big glass tank on Coruscant.
www.darkhorse.com /news/interviews.php?id=766   (4225 words)

  
 Star Wars, Episode III - Revenge of the Sith (Full Screen Edition) at Zonik - powered by Amazon.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
It's just the latest maneuver in the ongoing Clone Wars between the Republic and the Separatist forces led by former Jedi turned Sith Lord Count Dooku (Christopher Lee).
From the opening of the first scene, the Dolby 5.1 EX sound is thrilling, and the picture, transferred directly from the digital source, is fantastic.
I didn't see the first two movies about Star Wars, but I can tell you that this is silly and a waste of time.
www.zonik.net /zonikstores/item.php?a=B000ANNM4S   (1674 words)

  
 EU commission ruling could help competitors in ongoing media wars | The San Diego Union-Tribune
SEATTLE – By the time Microsoft Corp. settled its antitrust case with the U.S. Justice Department, the Internet browser war that precipitated it had already been fought – with Microsoft the victor.
In the ensuing years, technology has moved so fast – and the legal process so slowly by comparison – that the software behemoth similarly won other market battles before legal challenges could be resolved.
"The EU decision comes when the media wars, if you could call it that, are ongoing," said Joe Wilcox, senior analyst with Jupiter Research.
www.signonsandiego.com /uniontrib/20040324/news_1b24msft.html   (1043 words)

  
 SignOnSanDiego.com > In Iraq -- White House readies huge request for Iraq, hurricane relief
WASHINGTON – Pentagon spending for the ongoing wars in Iraq and Afghanistan will reach $115 billion for the current year assuming the latest White House request is approved.
The administration readied a $65.3 billion request to be officially submitted to Congress on Thursday, and Pentagon officials told congressional aides that would be sufficient to conduct the two wars at least through Sept. 30.
The supplemental spending request for the ongoing wars would bring the total price tag for the Iraq and Afghanistan missions to almost $400 billion.
www.signonsandiego.com /news/world/iraq/20060216-1143-us-iraq.html   (495 words)

  
 Zones - Star Wars
Remember that moment of weightless expectation after the rousing theme music had faded out and the last letters of the opening scroll had vanished into the distance--just before some gigantic starship hove into view, or you were dropped onto an alien world, and transported to that galaxy far, far away?
January of this year saw the debut of Knights of the Old Republic, a new ongoing series by writer John Jackson Miller and regular artist Brian Ching.
Dark Horse, Dark Horse Comics, and the Dark Horse logo are trademarks of Dark Horse Comics, Inc., registered in various categories and countries.
www.darkhorse.com /zones/starwars/index.php   (349 words)

  
 Category:Wars - Military History Wiki
1474-1477 War between the Duchy of Burgundy and the Swiss Confederation
1478 - War between the Principality of Moscow and the Republic of Novgorod
1792 War in defence of the constitution in Poland
www.militaryhistorywiki.org /wiki/Category:Wars   (600 words)

  
 In the midst of ongoing wars this week there was a major assassination
In the midst of ongoing wars this week there was a major assassination.
During World War II there was an amazing Eastern Orthodox Bishop named Cyril.
Watch, pay attention, for God is saying to you and to me, “I was trying to get your attention” Our lives and our actions declare whether he has it or not.
webpages.charter.net /rschult/andrews/sermon-03-28-04.htm   (1845 words)

  
 Purchase Outlander - The Exile of Sharad Hett (Star Wars: Ongoing, Volume 2) / SmartDownloads Software / Lowest Price, ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Comment: This is the best story of the Ongoing Series, it has loads of action and lots of plot twists from all different directions.
Also Truman does great stuff with Aurra Sing giving a us a sampling of her backround and her hatred for Jedi.
The story, art, and characters are still good, and well worth adding to your Star Wars collection.
shop.gamesbud.com /Star_Wars:_Darkness-1569715149.html   (433 words)

  
 Into the ongoing fieldbus wars enters Ethernet   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
From: Manufacturing.Net [mailto:feedback@manufacturing.net] Sent: Friday, May 19, 2000 9:26 PM To: Subject: Manufacturing.Net Newsletter Issue 183 Email Newsletter from Manufacturing.Net -- http://www.manufacturing.net Instrumentation and Control Into the ongoing fieldbus wars enters Ethernet, which is now being used to connect controllers with remote I/O modules as a fieldbus.
Yes, it'a a shame, our good friend ethernet will be corrupted, abused and have its good open nature perverted completely.
Even as we speak, the same bunch of greedy fools who have given us the fieldbus wars are racing to plop a hundred different incompatible proprietary protocols on top of the most successful open protocols on the planet, the internet suite of protocols.
www.control.com /959059342/index_html   (1390 words)

  
 Social Synergy: Globalization and Cultural Shifting
It is worth considering that these groups only appear to be willing to sacrifice their local goals to a greater goal so long as there is a common enemy to fight.
The Universal patterns underlying ongoing wars and terrorism paper I referenced above reflects a pattern that "suggest(s) that modern insurgent wars tend to be driven by the same underlying mechanism: the continual coalescence and fragmentation of attack units." This pattern is observed in diverse areas of geography, ethnicity, ideology, and religion.
When and if the common enemy is gone, these groups who choose warfare as a way to reshape their landscape may end up turning on each other in the end.
socialsynergy.typepad.com /social_synergy/2006/06/globalization_a.html   (1506 words)

  
 Star Wars Ongoing Story (Title to be inserted later) - www.ezboard.com
A hooded figure looked up from a corner table and watched as a pair of rather seedy looking humans made their way over to the speaker.
In another corner, another set of eyes, red eyes to be exact…red eyes belonging to a Zabrak, was watching this little incident.
The street was nearly deserted in the afternoon heat, which made it simple to trail Tsubass and his Rodian companion but not simple at all to do so without being noticed.
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 Amazon.com: Star Wars: Prelude to Rebellion: Books: Various   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Fun to read, and introducing various ideas and concepts to the Star Wars mythos, this is a good addition to your Star Wars library.
I'll start out by saying I was a huge fan of Stackpole's ongoing 'X-wing Rogue Squadron' comic series and I found the fact that it was cancelled due to low sales to be shameful.
The new ongoing series based on the Jedi are very different from the XWRS series in this aspect.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1569714487?v=glance   (2316 words)

  
 Waiting For Star Wars
Follow me, Jeff Tweiten, as I wait in line for 5 months in front of the Pacific Science Center IMAX theatre for the opening of Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith.
Today non star wars fans had to acted out scenes for star wars for us.
This is a paragraph of text that could go in the sidebar.
waitingforstarwars.blogspot.com   (1919 words)

  
 ::::: SOUL STRUT ::::: CRATE DIGGING DJ & HIP HOP CULTURE
The US is involved in two minor ongoing wars in which they face minor difficulties.
Its only prophetic in that it heralded the kind of spurious doom mongering that would characerise the left through out this courageous presidency.
Tell that to the dead people (suffering from ongoing "minor difficulties"...
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 Purchase Twilight (Star Wars: Ongoing, Volume 4) / SmartDownloads Software / Lowest Price, Review, Screenshot, Buy   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Comment: I think Star Wars Twilight is one of the best comics I have ever read.
He finds that he has no idea who he is and what he's doing there.
Comment: Definitely do read this volume if you are a fiend for Star Wars comics or can manage to come across a copy for cheap.
shop.gamesbud.com /Star_Wars:_Darkness-1569715580.html   (468 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Emissaries to Malastare (Star Wars: Ongoing, Volume 3): Books: Tim Truman,Tom Lyle,Robert Jones   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
West Virginia native Timothy Truman is a true renaissance man. A talented writer, artist, and musician, Truman is known in the world of comics for his sharp, evocative writing and dramatic, detailed artwork.
The art, though not on a par with the higher echelon of DC, Marvel, and independent illustrators, is certainly on the higher end of Dark Horse's contributions to the STAR WARS franchise.
After having read the excellent Crimson Empire books, I wanted another taste of Star Wars graphic novels, and when glancing at it in the store, I was impressed by the nice action and artwork.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1569715459?v=glance   (2819 words)

  
 Graphic Novel Reviews   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Before science fiction became legend in Movies and TV Shows, like the Star Wars Saga, Lost in Space and Star Trek, one man's name was once science fiction's name for a hero in the golden age of comics.
Several centuries ago in Japan, there were ongoing wars, between humans and demons alike.
The well is a linking point between the modern age and the age in the distant past, in which wars were raging constantly.
www.e-book-store.com /Graphic_Novel/Graphic_Novel_116.html   (5443 words)

  
 Star Wars Jedi Knight - Jedi Academy - Computer Games
In yet another chapter of the ongoing Star Wars gaming empire, you are a young trainee in the Jedi School of Lightsabers and Force Powers.
The combat gets better in later levels but at the beginning it's easy for it to turn into a button mashing contest.
Definitely a good game for any Star Wars fan to get, but I recommend the MMORPG Star Wars Galaxies for anyone looking for a real RPG experience.
www.bellaonline.com /articles/art13293.asp   (366 words)

  
 Worldwide Conflicts and Wars
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