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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 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 group
* Another group is the School of the Military that studied strategy and the philosophy of war ; Sunzi and Sun Bin were influential leaders.
He says, " It is of the vilest baseness to use horses in the war ," when the group hears several wounded horses writhe and scream for a long time before dying during a bombardment.
Originally applied to any group of infantry primarily armed with projectile weapons, artillery has over time become limited in meaning to refer only to those engines of war that operate by projection of munitions far beyond the effective range of personal weapons.
In 1997, a group led by Vladimiro Roca, a decorated veteran of the Angolan war and the son of the founder of the Cuban Communist Party, sent a petition, entitled La Patria es de Todos (" the homeland belongs to all ") to the Cuban general assembly requesting democratic and human rights reforms.
The anti-war affinity group " Collateral Damage " Activism | protesting the Iraq war
What one group considers a crime may cause or ignite war or conflict.
The term took on its present meaning from a group of ministers of King Charles II of England ( Sir Thomas Clifford, Lord Arlington, the Duke of Buckingham, Lord Ashley, and Lord Lauderdale ), whose initial letters coincidentally spelled CABAL, and who were the signatories of the public Treaty of Dover that allied England to France in a prospective war against the Netherlands.
Only ethnic dominance, the case where the largest ethnic group comprises a majority of the population, increased the risk of civil war.
A civil war broke out in 1991, between the government and a predominantly Afar rebel group, the Front for the Restoration of Unity and Democracy ( FRUD ).
In early November 1991, civil war erupted in Djibouti between the government and a predominantly Afar rebel group, the Front for the Restoration of Unity and Democracy ( FRUD ).
Human sacrifices were not only made in time of war, pestilence, calamity, and on the death of kings and chiefs, they were also made regularly in the Annual Customs, believed to supply deceased kings with a fresh group of servants.
The term is usually used within the greater context of war, to denote an opposing group as a threat.
The first two editions place a first nuclear war near the end of the 21st century, with the final war in the years AD 2309-2322, and ascribe the final annihilation to a terrorist group called " The Apocalypse and the ensuing retaliation by surviving factions.
The only group with significant knowledge of the Ancients are isolated robots and other artificial intelligences that survived the war — though these machines tend to be damaged, in ill-repair, or hostile to organic beings.
The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam in the Sri Lankan Civil War, the Afghan Mujahideen in the Soviet war in Afghanistan, George Grivas and Nikos Sampson's Greek guerrilla group EOKA in Cyprus, Aris Velouchiotis and Stefanos Sarafis and the EAM against the Axis occupation of Greece during World War II, Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck and the German Schutztruppe in World War I, Josip Broz Tito and the Yugoslav Partisans in World War II, and the antifrancoist guerrilla in Spain during the Franco dictatorship, the Kosovo Liberation Army in the Kosovo War, and the Irish Republican Army led by Michael Collins during the Irish War of Independence.
*" Red Dawn ", a 1984 American war film about a group of high school students become engaged in guerrilla warfare after their country is invaded by Cubans and Russians.
Gardner's dissatisfaction with the group grew, particularly when in 1939, one of the group's leaders sent a letter out to all members in which she stated that war would not come.
A small group ( with about 200 activists ), dedicated to Jewish resistance to the British administration in Palestine, broke away from the Etzel ( which advocated support for Britain during the war ) and formed the " Lehi " ( Stern Gang ), led by Avraham Stern.
The largest resistance group, the National Liberation Front ( EAM ), was controlled by the Communists, as was ( Elas ) led by Aris Velouchiotis and a civil war soon broke out between it and non-Communist groups such as the National Republican Greek League ( EDES ) in those areas liberated from the Germans.
After the war a large group of Orthodox Jewish Survivors of the nearby Bergen-Belsen concentration camp settled in Hanover.
Having lost the civil war, this group remained in existence, with the intention of overthrowing both the Irish Free State and Northern Ireland and achieving the Irish Republic proclaimed in 1916.
* 1918 – Finnish Civil War: A group of Red Guards hangs a red lantern atop the tower of Helsinki Workers ' Hall to symbolically mark the start of the war.
* 2010 – Yemen declares an open war against the terrorist group al-Qaeda.
In 1943, after the group disbanded, Sartre joined a writers ' Resistance group, in which he remained an active participant until the end of the war.

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