On June 18 , 1812 , President James Madison signed Sign_agreement into law the American declaration of war , after heavy pressure Convincing from the War Hawks in Congress .

american prosecution Legality of the war effort suffered Bodily_harm from its unpopularity , especially in new england , where it was referred to as `` mr. madison 's war '' .

american prosecution Legality of the war effort suffered Bodily_harm from its unpopularity , especially in new england , where it was referred to as `` mr. madison 's war '' .

In 1813 , the Americans won the Battle of Lake Erie , gaining Getting control of the lake , and they defeated Conquering Tecumseh 's Confederacy at the Battle of the Thames , securing a primary war goal .

With the abdication Change_of_leadership of Napoleon , Britain 's war ended Process_end with France and Britain ceased impressment , rendering Causation the issue Creating irrelevant of the impressment of American sailors .

The treaty was unanimously ratified Ratification by the US Senate on February 17 , 1815 , ending Process_end the war with no boundary changes .

the kargil war , also known as the kargil conflict , was an armed conflict between india and pakistan that took place Process_start between may and july 1999 in the kargil district of kashmir and elsewhere along the line of control ( loc ) .

the indian air force 's role in acting jointly with ground troops during the war that was aimed Aiming at flushing Emptying out regular and irregular troops of the pakistani army from vacated indian positions in the kargil sector along the line of control .

`` Operation White Sea '' ) The cause of the war was the infiltration Attack of Pakistani soldiers disguised Wearing as Kashmiri militants into positions on the Indian side of the LOC , which serves as the `` de facto '' border between the two states .

during the initial stages of the war , pakistan blamed Judgment_communication the fighting entirely on independent kashmiri insurgents , but documents left behind by casualties and later statements by pakistan 's prime minister and chief of army staff showed involvement of pakistani paramilitary forces , led by general ashraf rashid .

The war is one of the most recent examples of high-altitude warfare in mountainous terrain , which posed significant logistical problems for the combating sides .

In anticipation of the Spanish entering Arriving the war Hostile_encounter on the French side , the British attacked Attack Spanish colonies .

For most of the Seven Years ' War Spain remained neutral , turning down both the French and British , but during the war 's latter stages , the Spanish became Becoming alarmed Warning at the threat posed Causation by the British to their colonies as French losses Earnings_and_losses mounted .

The legislation admitted Statement that government actions were based on `` race Competition prejudice , war Hostile_encounter hysteria , and a failure of political leadership . ''

Spain , allied Collaboration with France , had joined Participation the war Military_operation against Great Britain in 1779 , and had rapidly gained Getting control Control over British positions along the Mississippi in that year .

During the crisis Hostile_encounter , the British cabinet issued Statement a communiqué threatening to declare Expressing_publicly war against Turkey on behalf of the UK and the Dominions .

British Prime Minister David Lloyd George had not consulted the Dominions and Canada disavowed Agree_or_refuse_to_act the British ultimatum : when Canadian Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King referred Adducing the issue to the Canadian parliament , it declared Expressing_publicly that it alone had the authority to declare Expressing_publicly war on behalf of Canada .

serbia and montenegro ) , which controlled Control kosovo before the war Hostile_encounter , and the kosovo albanian rebel group known as the kosovo liberation army ( kla ) , with air support Supporting from the north atlantic treaty organisation ( nato ) from 24 march 1999 , and ground support Supporting from the albanian army .

the war Hostile_encounter ended Process_end with the kumanovo treaty , with yugoslav and serb forces agreeing Agree_or_refuse_to_act to withdraw Escaping from kosovo to make way for an international presence .

After the war Hostile_encounter , a list was compiled Writing which documented Recording that over 13,500 people were killed Killing or went missing during the two year conflict .

After the war Hostile_encounter , around 200,000 Serbs , Romani and other non-Albanians fled Escaping Kosovo and many of the remaining civilians were victims of abuse Violence .

After attempts at a diplomatic solution failed , NATO intervened , justifying Justifying the campaign in Kosovo as a `` humanitarian war '' .

The genocidal policies of the German government 's colonization plan Arranging , `` Generalplan Ost '' , were the blueprint for German war Hostile_encounter crimes Committing_crime and crimes Committing_crime against humanity committed Commitment against the Polish nation from 1939 to 1945 .

From the start Process_start of the war Hostile_encounter against Poland , Germany intended to realize Know Adolf Hitler 's plan Arranging , set out Creating in his book `` Mein Kampf '' , to acquire Getting `` living space '' ( `` Lebensraum '' ) in the east for massive settlement of German colonists .

After Germany lost Earnings_and_losses the war Hostile_encounter , the International Military Tribunal at the Nuremberg Trials and Poland 's Supreme National Tribunal concluded Process_end that the aim Aiming of German policies in Poland – the extermination Killing of Poles and Jews – had `` all the characteristics of genocide in the biological meaning of this term . ''

The men of both armies are well experienced in the art of war , men who will fight with the greatest courage .

Experts in the art of war consider this battle more important than that fought Hostile_encounter at Grunwald ; and if you consider the danger , ardour and endurance of the combatants , it certainly should rank higher . ''

This early stage of the war Military_operation formally ended Process_end on 1 May 2003 when U.S. President George W. Bush declared Expressing_publicly the `` End Process_end of major combat operations Military_operation '' , after which the Coalition Provisional Authority ( CPA ) was established Creating as the first of several successive transitional governments leading up to the first Iraqi parliamentary election Change_of_leadership in January 2005 .

In a January 2003 CBS poll Research , 64 % of Americans had approved Agree_or_refuse_to_act of military action against Iraq ; however , 63 % wanted Request Bush to find Creating a diplomatic solution rather than go to war Military_operation , and 62 % believed Know the threat Terrorism of terrorism Terrorism directed Aiming against the U.S. would increase Cause_change_of_position_on_a_scale due to war .

In a January 2003 CBS poll Research , 64 % of Americans had approved Agree_or_refuse_to_act of military action against Iraq ; however , 63 % wanted Request Bush to find Creating a diplomatic solution rather than go to war Military_operation , and 62 % believed Know the threat Terrorism of terrorism Terrorism directed Aiming against the U.S. would increase Cause_change_of_position_on_a_scale due to war .

According to the French academic Dominique Reynié , between 3 January and 12 April 2003 , 36 million people across the globe took part Dispersal in almost 3,000 protests Judgment_communication against the Iraq war .

The Argentine president of the time , Raúl Alfonsín declared Expressing_publicly that the attack Attack , which carried Bringing the ultimate goal of sparking Causation a massive popular uprising Change_of_leadership , could have led to Causation a civil war Hostile_encounter .

Insurgent groups known collectively as the mujahideen , as well as smaller Maoist groups , fought Hostile_encounter a guerrilla war against the Soviet Army and the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan government , mostly in the rural countryside .

The mujahideen groups were backed primarily by the United States , Saudi Arabia , and Pakistan , making it Causation a Cold War proxy war .

The war derives from a 1978 coup when Afghanistan 's communist party took Getting power , initiating Process_start a series of radical modernization reforms Reforming_a_system throughout the country .

Soviet troops occupied Control the cities and main arteries of communication , while the mujahideen waged guerrilla war in small groups operating Being_in_operation in the almost 80 percent of the country that was outside government and Soviet control , almost exclusively being the rural countryside .

But they were met with fierce resistance from the guerillas , and were stuck in a bloody war that lasted nine years .

By the mid-1980s , the Soviet contingent was increased Cause_change_of_position_on_a_scale to 108,800 and fighting increased Cause_change_of_position_on_a_scale , but the military and diplomatic cost Cost of the war to the USSR was high .

The Soviets ' failure in the war is thought Coming_to_believe to be a contributing factor to the fall of the Soviet Union .

Combined with the capture of `` Berchtesgaden '' , any hope of Nazi leadership continuing to wage war from a so-called National Redoubt or escape through the Alps was crushed Destroying , shortly followed by unconditional German surrender on 8 May 1945 .

During Operation Lumberjack , Operation Plunder and Operation Undertone in March 1945 , German casualties during February–March 1945 are estimated at 400,000 men , including 280,000 men captured as prisoners of war .

German industrial cities were now subjected to intensive bombardment which inflicted Causation enormous damage on the German war effort .

Along with the battlefield reverses was the inability of the `` Luftwaffe '' to produce Creating enough experienced night fighter crews which was exacerbated Cause_change_of_position_on_a_scale by the crippling shortage of fuel at this stage in the war which contributed Causation to the collapse of training programs and grounded combat units .

For the Australians , a significant advantage was gained Getting through the technological edge that Allied industry had achieved Achieve over the Japanese by this phase of the war , while the Japanese were hampered Hindering by a lack of supplies and reinforcements due to Allied interdiction efforts at sea and in the air .

The operation stemmed Creating from Nazi Germany 's ideological aim of conquering Conquering the western Soviet Union so that it could be repopulated by Germans ( ) , and to also use Using some Slavs as a slave labour force for the Axis war effort and to annihilate Killing the rest according to Generalplan Ost , and to acquire Getting the oil reserves of the Caucasus and the agricultural resources of Soviet territories .

The operation opened Openness up the Eastern Front , in which more forces were committed Commitment than in any other theater of war in world history .

The German armies captured Conquering some 5,000,000 Red Army troops during the war , a majority of whom never returned Arriving alive .

The Nazis deliberately starved Killing to death , or otherwise killed Killing , 3.3 million Soviet prisoners of war , as well as a vast number of civilians .

The Red Army absorbed Ingestion the Wehrmacht 's strongest blows and forced Causation the Germans into a war of attrition for which they were unprepared Response .

Burgevine was no Ward , however he took over Change_of_leadership leadership , but his personal behavior and temperament was in conflict Quarreling with the good order Request and discipline necessary to lead Communication a mixed group of mercenary forces Military_operation in this ever-changing war Military_operation .