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As the war progressed, Allied armies began using combined arms formations and deep penetration strategies that Germany had used in the opening years of the war.
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, 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 wire
Carnegie later joked that he was " the first casualty of the war " when he gained a scar on his cheek from freeing a trapped telegraph wire.
During the First World War, on the Western front, the two sides had been locked in a trench war, where kill zones by overlapping fire of machine guns and barbed wire prevented either side from breaking through.
The British Army in Egypt recognised this before the war and had the Eighth Army begin construction of several " boxes " ( localities with dug-outs and surrounded by minefields and barbed wire ), the most developed being around the railway station at Alamein.
* Charles Tyner as General Victor Ball, Harold ’ s uncle who lost an arm in the war and now pulls a hidden cord to make his wire prosthetic " salute.
After the war most of his paintings were religious allegories or depictions of post-war suffering, including his 1948 Ecce homo with self-likeness behind barbed wire.
After the war, Boosey and Hawkes also produced a " Reporter " tape recorder in the early 1950s using magnetic tape, rather than wire, which was based on German wartime technology.
Barbed wire and containment: Japanese prisoner of war 1945
Barbed wire began to be widely used as an implement of war during World War I.
Artillery bombardments on the Western Front became increasingly aimed at cutting the barbed wire that was a major component of trench warfare, particularly once new " wire-cutting " fuzes were introduced midway through the war.
Other inventions were also a result of the war, such as the screw picket, which enabled construction of wire obstacles to be done at night in No Man's Land without the necessity of hammering stakes into the ground and drawing attention from the enemy.
Thinking that Marvin's intelligence will be an asset, they wire his brain into the interfaces of their intelligent war computer.
The German development teams then turned to wire guidance once they realized what was going on, but these systems were not ready for deployment until the war had already moved to France.
Silvio initially told Tony that they should go after one of Phil's men but Tony was trying to avoid a war and instead decided to blow up Phil's wire room in Sheepshead Bay.
Soviet prisoners of war, 300, 000 after the battle of Minsk alone, were either killed in concentration camps, or literally starved to death in prison camps, mostly nothing more than fields surrounded with barbed wire in the open.
While the Royal Hawaiian's lush tropical garden was ( and still is ) tranquil and poetic, on the beaches fronting the Pink Palace ( sometimes referred to as the Pink Lady ) one saw reminders of the war with rolls and rolls of barbed wire planted in the sand.
Those prisoners were to be held behind the barbed wire of a former World War I prisoner of war camp for trial by a military tribunal.
During the war, it was a major producer of prefabricated buildings, wire netting and wooden sub-assemblies of aircraft the site was bombed.
Following this action the war was defined by fixed defences of trenches, bunkers and wire, constant patrolling, and numerous clashes.
After nightfall those that were pinned down near the German wire were rounded up and made prisoners of war.
Ieng Sary, reportedly living in " an opulent Phnom Penh villa surrounded by security guards and barbed wire " was arrested on November 12, 2007 in Phnom Penh on an arrest warrant from the Cambodia Tribunal for war crimes and crimes against humanity.
After a stint as a journalist on the New York Post and then on the Community News Service ( a short-lived wire service providing news of the black, Latino, and other minority racial communuities ), he resigned to manage the successful 1970 anti-Vietnam war campaign for Congress by Bella Abzug, making her the first left radical to be elected to the U. S. House of Representatives since Vito Marcantonio.
With his military training, and some leftovers of the war found beneath the hall, Blott begins a covert campaign including blackmail and wire tapping to scrutinize Sir Giles's activities on Maud's behalf and to undermine the construction of the motorway.
When he toured war factories around the country for two weeks in September 1942, for example, only three wire service reporters accompanied him on the private railroad car Ferdinand Magellan.

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