Word: combatative
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...combat veterans, for whom deployments are routine, know that what the Army requires its soldiers to bring with them is not the end of what is necessary. Weber still has grateful memories of the Army wife who told him to pack clothespins when he first deployed to the gulf, lest the wind toss his drying uniform in the sand. At the base PX and Wal-Mart, extra tent pegs and shower shoes are selling fast. So are watches with alarms that give the time in two time zones. Twizzlers. Extra thick boot insoles. Liquid laundry soap, because the water will...
...Zoya Chernet- sova, whose 23-year-old son, Daniel, died in the raid. "The only thing they should have done was to put a tube in my son's mouth to ventilate his lungs. He would have survived then. Why such negligence?" asked Chernetsova, 50, a nurse who has combat experience with the Soviet Army in Afghanistan. Trunov's clients crowded each day into the small courtroom to testify. Through tears and clenched teeth, they summoned up painful memories of the night of Oct. 23, when they or their family members enjoyed Act I of the musical romance Nord...
...Japan, would be intolerable from Japan's perspective," says Takashi Inoguchi, a professor of political science at the University of Tokyo. For now, the world is still not dangerous enough for Japan to crank up its military machine. But that could change?and a nation's allergy toward combat could be cured overnight...
...rhetoric. The Charity Commission says he must answer complaints this week about "extreme and political" statements. French impatience with Britain comes from the country's long experience of the brutal terrorism of Algerian organizations like the Armed Islamic Group (G.I.A.) and its offshoot, the Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat (G.S.P.C.). The G.S.P.C.'s gory combat videos, full of throat slitting, are on sale at radical mosques. Both groups were founded after 1992 elections were canceled by Algeria's military when it became obvious that a fundamentalist Islamic party would win. Osama bin Laden tapped into the Algerians' European cell...
...because they don’t think North Korea would ever kill other Koreans. Such an attitude reveals volumes about South Korea’s education system, which can’t seem to teach the lessons of the Korean War and its aftermath: millions of Koreans killed in combat, millions more dead in the North from unnecessary famine and inhuman conditions in concentration camps, not to mention the Cold War litany of bombings, assassinations, and infiltrations against South Korean targets. An attitude of solidarity with their fellow Koreans imprisoned in the North is understandable, even praiseworthy, but real sympathy...