He also has a " shooting license ," certifying him as sporadically not responsible for his actions due to a head wound, though he is clearly quite sane and exploiting his license so he can stay in the hospital and away from the war as long as possible.

He later sometimes misrepresented himself as a war veteran and his disability as a war wound.

As the war wound down in 1945, Heinlein began re-evaluating his career.

Subsequently hospitalised for a mortar wound to the right leg and shell shock, he was demoted by an unsympathetic commanding officer ( identified in his war diaries as Major Evan ' Jumbo ' Jenkins ) back to Gunner.

* Skull from Battle of Towton ( 1461 ) showing war hammer wound

( which went quadruple platinum in America ), the media quipped that " wound up winning the battle but losing the war.

In 1171 Afonso concluded a seven years truce with the Moors ; weakened by his wound and by old age, he could no longer take the field, and when the war broke out afresh he delegated the chief command to his son Sancho.

After the war and his recovery from the Chapultepec wound, Longstreet and his new wife served on frontier duty in Texas, primarily at Fort Martin Scott near Fredericksburg and Fort Bliss in El Paso.

Euclides is prompted to share his book when Terpsion wonders where he'd been: Euclides, who apparently can usually be found in the marketplace of Megara, was walking outside of the city and had happened upon Theaetetus being carried from Corinth to Athens with a case of dysentery and a minor war wound ; Euclides remarks that Socrates had made some uncanny predictions about Theaetetus needing to rise to fame.

Also in 1989, in relation to Afghanistan, Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev labeled the war against the U. S .- supported mujahideen a " bleeding wound " and ended the Soviet occupation of the country.

Their drive to insist on " friendly governments " as the war drew to a close did not happen in an ideological vacuum: the Soviets did indeed impose these pro-Soviet regimes in Central Europe by what effectively wound up being unilateral decree – but the role of the partisans on all fronts of the war, as well as the estimated 20, 000, 000 Soviet soldiers who died to defeat fascism, cannot be dismissed, as it lent a certain amount of the appearance of ' licence ' on the part of the Soviet administration to control Central Europe that they would not otherwise have had.

Following the worldwide success of Oasis ' ( What's the Story ) Morning Glory ?, the media quipped that " wound up winning the battle but losing the war.

The militarisation of the workforce and the diversion of resources to the war greatly reduced the role of the DAF, and the KdF was largely wound up.

After Rome's great victory at Sentinum, the war slowly wound down, coming to an end in 282.

In 1990, the U. S. Army Adjutant General's Office issued a legal opinion holding that the Sierra MatchKing bullet, despite being an open-tip design, is not designed specifically to cause greater damage or suffering in a human target, and in fact normally does not create a wound readily distinguishable from wounds caused by conventional full metal jacket bullets, and is therefore in their opinion legal under the Hague Convention for use in war.

But it was too late-the French and Dutch quickly wound up their negotiations ( without England ), and went on to sign the Treaties of Nijmegen ending the war.

Sensing that the wound was fatal, and fearing a repeat of the Battle of Chilchonryang, the admiral uttered, " The war is at its height -- wear my armor and beat my war drums.

What did you do in the Great war, Daddy ( 1919 ) criticised profiteers and slackers ; Vesta Tilley's I've got a bit of a blighty one ( 1916 ) showed a soldier delighted to have a wound just serious enough to be sent home.

Bronstein moved to Moscow as the war wound up.

Macleod joined the Royal Fusiliers as a private in 1939 but was commissioned into the Duke of Wellington's Regiment and fought briefly in France in 1940, suffering a serious war wound to the thigh which, particularly when combined with a later spinal condition ( ankylosing spondylitis ), was to leave him with pain and a limp for the rest of his life.

His later problems have been attributed to his war wound to the head, but this is incorrect.

He took a leading role in the war of 1805, commanding the famous division of " grenadiers Oudinot ," made up of hand-picked troops and organized by him, with which he seized the Vienna bridges, received a wound at the Battle of Schöngrabern in Lower Austria against the Russians and delivered the decisive blow in the Battle of Austerlitz.

Keith Sterling had looked down on the Brahmaputra more times than he could remember, during the war days when he flew over the Hump of the world, thinking it high adventure in those times before man was guiding himself through outer space.

The excesses of nationalism had brought down upon Europe a generation of tyranny and war, and a return to the old order of things seemed unthinkable.

He had put it down in a war novel, The Day Of The Lion.

When he was in the war, he was in Law or Supplies or something like that, and an old buddy of his told me he would come down on Sundays to the Pentagon and read the citations for medals -- just like the one we sent in for Trig -- and go away with a real glow.

If we fail to develop the means to hunt down and destroy the enemy's military force with extreme care and precision, and if war comes in spite of our most ardent desires for peace, our choice of alternatives will be truly frightening.

The system tended to break down during the war, but was reactivated ; ;

When the Korean war began, on June 25, 1950, the anniversary of the day Custer had gone down fighting at the Little Big Horn and the day the regiment had assaulted the beachhead of Leyte during World War 2,, the 7th Cavalry was not in the best fighting condition.

Despite efforts by Washington last week to play down the significance of the meeting, it clearly was going to be one of the crucial encounters of the cold war.

He believes that greatness is a marriage between the man and the times as was aptly represented by Churchill, who would very possibly have gone down in history as a political failure if it had not been for Hitler's war.

Under Lincoln's leadership, the Union set up a naval blockade that shut down the South's normal trade, took control of the border slave states at the start of the war, gained control of communications with gunboats on the southern river systems, and tried repeatedly to capture the Confederate capital at Richmond, Virginia.

After the fall of Fort Sumter, Lincoln realized the importance of taking immediate executive control of the war and making an overall strategy to put down the rebellion.

Hence it would follow that the war lasted from shortly after 507 BC down to the congress at the Isthmus of Corinth in 481 BC

On the Eastern Front of World War I, where combat did not bog down into trench warfare, German and Russian armies fought a war of maneuver over thousands of miles, giving the German leadership unique experience which the trench-bound Western Allies did not have.

Pasternak later said, " If, in a bad dream, we had seen all of the horrors in store for us after the war, we should have been sorry not to see Stalin go down together with Hitler: an end to the war in favour of our allies, civilized countries with democratic traditions, would have meant a hundred times less suffering for our people than that which Stalin again inflicted on it after his victory.

With the war in Europe, many European jewelry firms were forced shut down.

As the war began to wind down with Germany's surrender in May 1945, the team parlayed Brown's ties to college football and the military to build its roster.

Wally goes off to war and his plane is shot down over Burma.

While the six African governments involved in the war signed a ceasefire accord in Lusaka in July 1999, the Congolese rebels did not and the ceasefire broke down within months.

In the third century AD, Flavius Philostratus wrote this: " For there is an ancient law in regard to the Red Sea, which the king Erythras laid down, when he held sway over that sea, to the effect that the Egyptians should not enter it with a vessel of war, and indeed should employ only a single merchant ship.

" I have warned you that you are dealing with an enterprising young prince ," wrote Louis XIV to his commander, " he does not tie himself down to the rules of war.

The philosophy of Epictetus is well known in the American military through the writings and example of James Stockdale, an American fighter pilot who was shot down over North Vietnam, became a prisoner of war during the Vietnam War, and later a vice presidential candidate.

In France, film production and exhibition closed down as its personnel became part of the general military mobilization of the country at the beginning of the war.

The Philippines ' armed forces may use their standard national flag, but during times of war the flag is turned upside down.

Bulgaria's flag is also turned upside down during times of war.