The flu was devastating to both sides, killing more men than their own weapons could.
On both sides, killing as many enemy as possible was central.
Both sides killed civilians and burned estates and towns, with the rebels concentrating on destroying Cuba's sugarcane crop.
The Predator analysts, in particular, often found themselves watching live firefights or bomb strikes, with soldiers on both sides killed before their eyes.
In a report this month, it said explosives laid by both sides killed 5,695 people last year in Chechnya, compared with 1,286 in Afghanistan.
Iran has a tradition of seeking revenge for any attack since the overthrow of the Shah in 1979 started decades of confrontation with the US in which planes have been shot down, ships sunk, officials and militants kidnapped, and partisans of both sides killed.
Efforts were underway Wednesday between the leadership of the rebel Free Syrian Army and Kurdish representatives in Turkey to negotiate an end to the clashes, in which scores of hostages have been seized and more than 40 fighters on both sides killed.
For example, the SS-1 Scud, a ballistic missile with ranges of up to 185 miles (300 kilometres), was fielded with nuclear warheads by Soviet troops in eastern Europe from the 1950s through the 1980s; but in the "war of the cities" during the Iran Iraq conflict of the 1980s, many SS-1s armed with conventional warheads were launched by both sides, killing thousands of civilians.
Both sides killed villagers, claiming they had been working for the enemy.
A tit-for-tat response ensued that saw six soldiers on both sides killed over a two-month period.
