WASHINGTON, June 3 (UPI) -- The two conventional land wars that were fought in the Northern Hemisphere over the past year were both small ones, almost tiny in geographical range and short in duration.

WASHINGTON, May 28 (UPI) -- No one in the Obama administration denies the reality of war and conflict in the 21st century, but there is widespread aspiration and hope, led by President Barack Obama himself, that, as Winston Churchill said: "Jaw, jaw is better than war, war."

UPI Almanac for Sunday, April 12, 2008.

LOS ANGELES, Dec. 20 (UPI) -- The literary character Jack Ryan will soon be back on U.S. movie screens as screenwriter Hossein Amini has been hired for a new Ryan film, industry sources say.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 31 (UPI) -- Former U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld entered office at a time of apparently infinite possibilities. He pursued many of them but achieved almost none of them.

WASHINGTON, Sept. 12 (UPI) -- The Russian five-day blitzkrieg that conquered one-third of Georgia for negligible losses carried a grim warning for the next president of the United States, whether he is John McCain or Barack Obama: Major land wars that could involve U.S. armed forces against formidable opponents are no longer inconceivable.

LONDON, June 5 (UPI) -- "Devil May Care," the latest installment in the book series about British secret agent James Bond, has sold 44,093 copies in its first four days in release.

UPI Almanac for Saturday, April 12, 2008.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 13 (UPI) -- Since the collapse of communism it has been widely assumed by U.S. policymakers that gigantic, full-scale land wars on major continents involving hundreds of thousands or even millions of troops have become inconceivable.