Word: wars
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...lying about the extent of casualties--both military and civilian--and this tendency to exaggerate military accomplishments has been readily adopted by the new regime. After the 1996 campaign in Chechnya was over, Russian President Boris Yeltsin admitted to a death toll significantly higher than that reported during the war and it is widely assumed that the Russian government is again intentionally underestimating casualties in order to bolster civilian support. Indeed, independent sources estimate that military casualties are nearly as high as they were during the failed Soviet campaign in Afghanistan...
...event honored Sanes, but had a larger political message--students spoke of the need to expel U.S. forces from Vieques, which has long served as a site for Navy war games and weapons tests...
...readiness of each of the service's 10 divisions. Troops, weapons, logistics and training are all measured, then reviewed by commanders and tweaked if the results might give a misleading impression of a division's fitness to fight. The grades range from C-1--fully ready to wage war--to C-4, unprepared for battle. The marks warn the Army of impending problems and help the generals know when to turn up the spigots for troops or materiel if a unit is lagging. The results are secret, complicated and, even inside the Army that lives by them, highly controversial...
...were going to have events like the PfoHo-Adams War, but it kind of fell through," said council president Noah Z. Seton...
...just because it was getting down to the wire, we sponsored a bill" to declare war on Yale, said council representative Todd Plants...