Sentences with phrase «stalemated war»

WASHINGTON (AP)-- In an abrupt reversal, the US military on Tuesday said it made a mistake when it ordered an independent federal auditor to stop providing the public with information about US war efforts in Afghanistan that help to measure how the 16 - year - old stalemated war is going.

WASHINGTON (AP)-- The Pentagon has ordered an independent federal auditor to stop providing the public with key information about US war efforts in Afghanistan, accelerating a clampdown on data, such as the size of the Afghan military and police forces, that indicate how the 16 - year - old stalemated war is going.

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Army Gen. Joseph Votel, the chief of US Central Command, has said the war in Afghanistan has settled into a stalemate and that he thought «it will involve additional forces to ensure that we can make the advise - and - assist mission more effective.»

Remember, the U.S. went through World War 2 (and won) and then again with the Cold War (stalemate), and each time propaganda came into the picture to try and change our views.

In the wake of World War I, intractable social conflict and political stalemate enfeebled the Weimar Republic's parliamentary democracy, which ended in a headlong fall into a totalitarian nightmare.

During the Cold War, geopolitics was difficult (the UN was largely in P5 stalemate), but the model for trade was clear.

The civil war stalemate was broken and rebel forces poured into Damascus, with Assad and his closest allies barely escaping by a diplomatic jet provided by Russia.

The civil war continued, and became into a stalemate until August, as Gaddafi weakened and the rebels began to take city after city, capturing the capital Tripoli on the 28th.

The lack of answers to these most basic of research questions has led to, at best, a stalemate in the war on cancer, which kills more than a half million U.S. patients annually.

When his films weren't moneymakers they were huge prestige successes, and most of them courted «dangerous» subject matter — war crimes, the nuclear stalemate, a novel deemed un-filmable.

Freed from the ersatz catharsis of the single player stories, «Battlefield 1's» multiplayer modes get incrementally closer to depicting the hopeless repetitions of the war's long and grueling stalemates.

Then followed the Iran - Iraq war (1980 - 1988) which ended in stalemate largely due to American and Western support for Iraq.

Although World War I is best remembered for the Western Front, which ended in a trench warfare fought stalemate, the Eastern Front quickly turned into a German rout.

The US is able to stem the invasion thanks to the strength of its military, and in particular the mysterious Ghosts, and the war has settled into a stalemate.

After years of uneasy stalemate, diplomatic relations are strained, and it will take only the slightest nudge to lead to full - scale war.

Stalemates are intrinsic of tug - of - war style gameplay, but in Nidhogg 2 it started detracting my interest in some of the matches I played.

Pressure and gravity come to a stalemate (except in a black hole) and the treaty that ends the war is called the adiabatic lapse rate.

The bidding war between Simon Property Group and Brookfield Asset Management over the fate of General Growth Properties appears to have reached a stalemate, as the two firms are now offering similarly priced and structured reorganization plans for...