Although Massoud tried and did win against the Soviet Union, he didn't win the ultimate war between the tribes of Afghanistan.
By Hendrik Hertzberg December 10 , 2009Courtesy of People for the American Way's Right Wing Watch blog, we learn of "this season's ultimate 'War on Christmas' accessory," the CHRIST-mas tree.
It is more than 500 years since the House of Lancaster won the ultimate battle of the Wars of the Roses, but the Yorkies have finally wrought their revenge.
Ever since the collapse of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War, the ultimate fate of the transatlantic alliance has been up in the air.
To realists in the Japanese high command, the loss of the Marianas spelled the ultimate loss of the war, but no one dared say so.
One of the ways we did this was to call our campaign a 'humanitarian mission.' " Gotabaya didn't address the allegations that festered in international circles, many of which focussed on him as the ultimate overseer of the war.
In February, for example, in The Guardian of London, the historian Eric Hobsbawm celebrated the ultimate triumph of the war's losers and suggested that the virtues of their cause transcended Stalin's machinations.
Recent weeks have provided fine evidence of such violent under- and over-shooting, especially if Donald Rumsfeld is right to aver that, owing to America's overwhelming force, the ultimate outcome of the war against Iraq is not in doubt.In this section Basel brush Gun-shy Generali finale?
The BBC's Huw Edwards was joined by military historians James Holland and Roderick Bailey to discuss the importance of the iconic aeroplane to the invasion, and the ultimate outcome of the war.
It's easy to forget that the ultimate aim of the war on drugs is not, or at least should not be, to destroy drug users but to release them from the prison of addiction (to mix metaphors dangerously).
