In wartime, economic intelligence is a prime indicator of an enemy's ability to sustain a war.
There are no sanctions, however, on stones from Congo, where the scramble for diamonds helps sustain a war among rebels, the government and armies from six African countries.
"The American people will not sustain a war in Afghanistan for 5 years or 10 years, in my judgment," Mr. Lugar, a former chairman of the committee, told CNN's "State of the Union".
"However, we all are working toward finding a way to succeed in Iraq". At stake is the ability to sustain a war that so far has claimed the lives of nearly 1,750 U.S. troops and that Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld has predicted could last years.
Even if one grants the pending $100 billion windfall from sanctions relief, Iran does not possess the economic strength to sustain a war with any first-rate military power.
The two were perhaps best suited for such a fight because each had other revenue streams to sustain a war against Microsoft Applee with Mac hardware sales and the iPod, Google with search and more importantly, search advertising).
We cannot sustain a war with one party for it and one party against, but if we leave Iraq precipitously, we'll leave a terrorists' haven in our wake.
Egypt's armed forces are totally dependent on the US for arms, spare parts, and munitions, the latter two kept in very tight supply so that Egypt could not sustain a war for more than a few days.
Even if the military can fight and the weapons do not fail, we no longer have the financial and industrial base to sustain a war.
Oil revenues have sustained a war effort against the armed separatist rebellion, which claims sovereignty over the Cabinda enclave, a territory including 60percentt of Angola's oil assets [ 40].
