COD: a state of competition, conflict, or hostilityHe wants to be friends with America because he thinks only American intervention will secure his aims ( he offered in the Gulf war to send 200,000 Sikhs to fight on the American side ) . Essentially , the talks were hostile : Morgan used the threat of price war to force firms to sell out and merge . And it was a little later that same night that his lordship said with some gravity , shaking his head : ` I fought that war to preserve justice in this world . Afforestation began between the two World Wars to provide Britain with home-grown wood , particularly for pit props ; used in the trenches . For instance , when Paris designated the wanton APHRODITE as the most beautiful of the goddesses , Hera 's morals were affronted and she arranged for the Trojan Wars to occur as just recrimination for the slight . There is no question that fighting a war to eject him from Kuwait is going to make all the problems of the Middle East more difficult to solve . It was not that both sides were preparing for some future war to deter the other side . ` The threat from a nuclear war forced us in the post-war period to think in terms of war destroying the whole planet . This state of affairs has resulted in long periods of civil war beginning soon after independence . She backed me up when there was the great family war about my future . THE GOVERNMENT is facing the most serious leak of secret information in its 20-year war against the IRA . Profit for its commercial insurance division fell 30 % to $ 59 million , reflecting higher catastrophe losses and the price war in the property / casualty market for nearly three years .Early progress was not steady , and the nuclear program was stalled by the Islamic revolution in 1979 , then the eight - year war with Iraq through most of the 1980s .Eight years of war with Iraq , multiple bombings of the Bushehr reactor site , chemical attacks on its forces , missile strikes on its cities , and an overall drain on its resources would certainly have had a devastating effect on Iran .Iranian troops suffered tens of thousands of casualties from Iraqi chemical weapons during the 1980 - 88 Iran - Iraq War .From approximately 1983 - 1988 during the war with Iraq , Iran suffered extensive CW attacks , including blister ( mustard ) and nerve agents .There are some reports that between 1984 and 1988 Iran employed chemical agents on a limited scale during the war with Iraq ; however , an intensive review of the open literature ( including UN reports from that era ) have failed to verify such claims .The development of ballistic missiles and long - range artillery rockets within Iran can be divided into three broad chronological stages : Pre - revolution ( 1977 - 1979 ) ; Post - revolution and the war with Iraq ( 1980 - 1988 ) ; and Post War ( 1989 - Present ) .This race would last throughout the eight - year - long war .It would bring about the development of an indigenous Iranian missile industry , two `` wars of the cities , '' and the evolution of a strategic concept concerning the military and political importance of ballistic missiles .North Korea 's chemical weapon ( CW ) production capability is estimated to be about 4,500 tons per year , though this could increase to 12,000 tons per year in case of war . Chemical Employed chemical agents on limited scale during Iran - Iraq war .Iran has had a chemical weapons production program since early in the Iran - Iraq war .It used chemical agents to respond to Iraqi chemical attacks on several occasions during that war .Iran 's biological warfare program began during the Iran - Iraq war .Iran 's entanglement with CW stems from the legacy of the Iran - Iraq War .After the 1979 hostage crisis at the US embassy in Tehran , the United States withdrew its support from Iran , cut all nuclear cooperation agreements , and , in fact , supported Iraq during the war .Its economy was depleted , its civilian industry near collapse , and its population was simply exhausted from the war .These include , but are not limited to : Necessities of war and the short distance to Iraqi strategic targets .Iran , however , lost both the ballistic missile race and arguably the war , which only served to reinforce its desire to possess and produce ballistic missiles .In 1982 , as the war dragged on into its second year , Iraqi operations entered a new phase in which it expanded the use of FROG-7As strikes and the first employment ( three attacks in 1982 ) of the Scud-B short - range ballistic missile ( SRBM ) to strike at the Iranian strategic rear .In the early morning hours of 29 February 1988 , Iran -- in its largest missile attack of the war to date -- launched three Shehab-1s against Baghdad .On 8 August 1988 , after eight years of bitter fighting and tens of thousands of casualties , the Iran - Iraq war came to a formal end .Kim Il Sung appreciated Soviet and Chinese support during the Korean War , but he had expected more , particularly from the Soviets , and he was dissatisfied that the war had ended in a stalemate .Iran first acquired SCUD-B ballistic missiles from Libya and North Korea and used them during the Iran - Iraq war .If truth is the first casualty in war , then dignity was the first principle to keel over in the dirty little war in Washington .QN : Is truth the first casualty in war ?During the Cold War , for example , the United States and the Soviet Union each supported sub - national groups engaged in proxy wars .Nowhere is the threat of nuclear war or nuclear terrorism , or the need to safeguard nuclear weapons more important than in South Asia , the home to Al Qaida , who seeks nuclear weapons , Dorgan said describing it as an area where relations among regional nuclear powers - China , India , Pakistan - have historically been tense. ( DailyIndia.com ; 25Jun06 ; Arun Kumar , Indo - Asian News Service ) ( Link )The city struggled to rebuild from Crusader wars and invasions .The SRI has allegedly taken in Iraqi scientists prior to the recent Gulf War .In 431 b.c. , Athens began a war with its neighbor and league member Sparta .Although the islands saw little action , as the war went on they could see that Athens was slowly losing its power .Before the end of the war in 401 b.c. , many islands had already transferred their allegiance to the victors , who were led by Philip II of Macedon .In 1770 , Russia came to aid the Greeks ( defined by their Orthodox religion rather than by historical geographical boundaries ) , declaring war on the Ottoman Empire and occupying several Aegean islands until 1774 .The Turks lost a short war with Italy , and were forced to relinquish the Dodecanese islands to the Italians .Following this debacle , the Ottomans then allied themselves to Germany in the World War I , losing more territory with the defeat of the Germans in that war .Greece attempted to stay out of World War II , but Mussolini saw Greece as an ideal addition to his Italian empire .But the country was politically fragmented , with arguments between monarchists and republicans , right and left , and tension escalated into civil war .After the war , in 1949 , the Dodecanese islands finally became part of the Greek nation .Iraq has been under economic sanctions since the war ended , which some say have thwarted the country 's ability to recover from the devastation of the bombing campaign .The Persian Gulf War destroyed much of the country 's medical infrastructure , according to a report by the World Health Organization .Hall will be only the second member of Congress to travel in Iraq since the war , according to Hall 's office .Hall , an Ohio Democrat and one of very few U.S. congressmen to visit Iraq since the 1991 Gulf War over Kuwait , is scheduled to embark Sunday the 12-hour overland trip to the Iraqi capital , Baghdad .U.S. Congressman Tony Hall arrived here Sunday evening , becoming the first U.S. lawmaker to visit Iraq since the 1991 Gulf War .He also said that his visit will mainly focus on the humanitarian situation of Iraq , which has been under crippling U.N. sanctions since its 1990 invasion of Kuwait , the primacord of the 1991 Gulf War .Paula_Zahn : Questions about the facts or what were presented as facts that led the United States into the war in Iraq spilled into open warfare today on the Senate floor .Ed_Henry : Democratic leader Harry Reed accused Republicans of failing to probe allegations the White House manipulated intelligence to justify the war in Iraq .Yesterday 's incident involved phosgene , a toxic industrial chemical used as a choking agent in World War I and to make plastics and pesticides. '' ( Baltimore Sun , 21Apr06 , Justin Fenton ) ( Link )Upon arrival , Hall said that his visit , the first of its kind by an American congressman since the 1991 Gulf War , was not political but humanitarian .The Iraqi government has agreed to let U.S. Rep . Tony Hall visit the country next week to assess a humanitarian crisis that has festered since the Gulf War of 1990 , Hall 's office said Monday .We do n't know who is winning the drug war in Latin America , but we know who 's losing it -- the press .So they announced their war on the Mujahidin .You Sheik announced war on those , with the opposings of many sectors and scholars of decision making .Additional catalysts for the valley 's growth came from World War II .Both the Las Vegas Aerial Gunnery School ( which became Nellis Air Force Base and the Nevada Test Site ) in the north , and Basic Magnesium in the nearby town of Henderson , arrived in the early 1940s as a result of America 's war effort .During World War II , the church was turned into a club for Japanese officers ; it was restored after the war .The statues in the main shrine represent Man , the god of literature , and Mo , the god of war , a curious juxtaposition .Servicemen relaxing from the rigors of the Vietnam War poured millions of dollars into the Wan Chai boom of the 1960s .Then the task was to help children who lost parents in the Civil War .Just up a lane from the market is the Man Mo Temple , with long-burning incense coils hanging from its ceiling , a popular spot dedicated to the Taoist gods of war and literature .