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United States Army: Civil War
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At the same time, the end of the Cold War lifted the lid on many long simmering conflicts held in check by the former 'superpowers', the Soviet Union and the United States. Plus, as new conflicts emerged, the United States and Russia no longer felt the urgency to intervene as they had during the Cold War standoff. Since markets, like nature, abhor a vacuum, PMCs emerged to fill the void, when conflicts emerged or wore on and no one from the West or the United Nations came riding to the rescue.
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The U.S. Army Accessions Command (USAAC) was established by general order on 15 February 2002. It is a subordinate command of TRADOC charged with providing integrated command and control of the recruiting and initial military training for the Army's officer, warrant officer, and enlisted forces. Designed to meet the human resource needs of the Army from first handshake to first unit of assignment, the command transforms volunteers into soldiers and leaders for the Army.
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[Reuters] Cluster bombs, which nearly 100 countries are seeking to ban, should not be considered bad as long as states involved in conflicts use them responsibly, a senior United States official said on Wednesday. The official, who declined to be identified... told a background briefing that Washington was planning to create a "quick reaction force", or QRF, to handle threats to civilians from remnants of war, like cluster bombs.
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