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Adam Smith argued in the Wealth of Nations that, as societies progressed from hunter gatherers to industrial societies, the spoils of war would rise but that the costs of war would rise further, making war difficult and costly for industrialised nations.
Other problems with Japan's fighter aircraft also became apparent as the war progressed, such as their lack of armor and light armament, which made them inadequate as bomber interceptors or ground-attack planes — roles Allied fighters excelled at.
After Heydrich's death in June 1942, and as the war progressed, Müller's power and the independence grew substantially.
As the war progressed, two factors arose that led to a revolution in Hergé's style.
As the war progressed more air fleets were created as the areas under German rule expanded.
As the war progressed, Gandhi intensified his demand for independence, calling for the British to Quit India in a speech at Gowalia Tank Maidan.
Though many nations ' armored formations included an organic mechanized infantry component at the start of World War II, the proportion of mechanized infantry in such combined arms formations was increased by most armies as the war progressed.
As the war progressed, military authorities placed greater stress on the development of air-cooled engines, which they felt had more immunity to damage from weather, shellfire and misuse.
As the war progressed, Germany's leather stockpiles dwindled.
As the war with Ming Dynasty progressed and the Han Chinese population under Manchu rule increased, Hong Taiji created a separate branch of Han Banners to draw on this new source of manpower.
As the uprising progressed into civil war, a growing number of soldiers began to defect from the Syrian Armed Forces and came together under the banner of the Free Syrian Army.
As the war progressed, most nations developed self-propelled artillery.
The war in the west progressed better in 1145, with the king recapturing Faringdon Castle in Oxfordshire.
As the war slowly progressed, Grant continued to extend Robert E. Lee's entrenchment defenses southwest of Petersburg, in an effort to capture vital railroad links.
As the war progressed the wire was used in shorter lengths that were easier to transport and more difficult to cut with artillery.
As the war progressed, with no hope of joining the rebellion due to power of the Royal Navy ( in the letter he had addressed to Bermudians soliciting the theft of the gunpowder, George Washington had written We would not wish to in volve you in an Opposition, in which from your Situation, we should be unable to support you: -- We knew not therefore to what Extent to sollicit your Assistance in availing ourselves of this Supply ), with increasing numbers of Amercan loyalists in Bermuda ( such as the privateer Bridger Goodrich ), and with their economic opportunities dwindling, Bermudians overcame their sympathies for their erstwhile countrymen and unleashed their privateers ( which, by the middle of the 18th Century already outnumbered those of any of the mainland colonies ) upon American shipping.
With enrollment in the armies growing as the war progressed and numbers of resistance falling after Operation Tempest, the size of Polish armed contribution can be estimated, at its peak, as one million men.
The confusion often stems from the fact that as war progressed, some resistance movements grew larger-and other diminished.
As the war progressed, he moved his attack to its conduct by the generals, who, he said ( basing his words on reports by William Burdett-Coutts in The Times ), were not providing for the sick or wounded soldiers and were starving Boer women and children in concentration camps.
The war started as an insurgency and progressed to a large scale conflict with the mixture of guerrilla and conventional warfare.
As the war progressed, many of the young Nisei, Japanese immigrants ' children who were born with American citizenship, volunteered to serve in the United States military.

war and Allied
A crack corps of 50 pilots was formed from the ranks of volunteers, but the project was halted before the end of the war, and the missiles later fell into Allied hands.
`` Had a world war not been in progress, there would never, under any conceivable stretch of the imagination, have been an Allied intervention in North Russia ''.
* 1916 – Romania declares war against Austria-Hungary, entering World War I as one of the Allied nations.
Research results obtained during that period were not shared between the Axis and the Allied powers during the war.
The Bulgarian government declared a token war on the United Kingdom and the United States near the end of 1941, an act which resulted in the bombing of Sofia and other Bulgarian cities by Allied aircraft.
The high-level intelligence produced at Bletchley Park, codenamed Ultra, provided crucial assistance to the Allied war effort.
Shortly after Marlborough landed in the Dutch Republic on 14 April, news arrived of major Allied setbacks in the wider war.
Allied air superiority became a significant hindrance to German operations during the later years of the war.
The Australian War Crimes Section of the Tokyo tribunal, led by prosecutor William Webb ( the future Judge-in-Chief ), collected numerous written reports and testimonies that documented Japanese soldiers ' acts of cannibalism among their own troops, on enemy dead, and on Allied prisoners of war in many parts of the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere.
Chiang was even named the Supreme Commander of Allied forces in the China war zone.
From then until the end of the war in Europe on May 8, 1945, Eisenhower through SHAEF had command of all Allied forces, and through his command of ETOUSA, administrative command of all U. S. forces, on the Western Front north of the Alps.
The statue is located in front of the current US Embassy, London and across from the former command center for the Allied Expeditionary Force during World War II, offices Eisenhower occupied during the war.
On the Western Front, no Allied army had penetrated the western German frontier, and on the Eastern Front, Germany had already won the war against Russia, concluded with the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk.
US Navy destroyers were among the first American units to be dispatched upon the American entry to the war, and a squadron of Japanese destroyers even joined Allied patrols in the Mediterranean.
By mid-1944, Allied fighters had gained air superiority throughout the theater, which would not be contested again during the war.
The extent of Allied quantitative and qualitative superiority by this point in the war was demonstrated during Battle of the Philippine Sea, a lopsided Allied victory where Japanese fliers were downed in such numbers and with such ease that American fighter pilots likened it to a great turkey shoot.
Late in the war, Japan did begin to produce new fighters such as the Nakajima Ki-84 and the Kawanishi N1K to replace the venerable Zero, but these were produced only in small numbers, and in any case by that time Japan lacked trained pilots or sufficient fuel to mount a sustained challenge to Allied fighters.
He supervised the mobilization of the U. S. economy to support the Allied war effort.
The Rock was a key part of the Allied supply lines to Malta and North Africa and base of the British Navy Force H, and prior to the war the racecourse on the isthmus was converted into an airbase and a concrete runway constructed ( 1938 ).
With American entry into the war in 1917 on the Allied side, and the failure of Germany's spring offensive, Germany was out of manpower.
This usage, emphasising the idea that the Germans were barbarians, was reinforced by Allied propaganda throughout the war.

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