Nevertheless, its use was less widespread than in the previous war.

"We had both cases in the previous war," he added, "but this time it is all coming from above."

Some of the men would have seen action in the previous war.

In many ways, of course, this war is different from previous wars.

Don't they say that generals are always fighting the the previous war?

There's a saying that the generals always fight the previous war.

The study looks at the history of such weapons and how they have been used in previous wars.

It was very probably the memory of what had happened after the previous war.

The city endured the previous war, of 1994-96, and somehow life went on.

As for the war in Iraq, it is tiny compared with previous wars.