The small teams are designed to carry out this broad range of security and stabilization tasks with small numbers, which Pentagon officials say is important in a nation with a historic animosity to foreign troops.

And its soccer officials are quick to distance themselves from talk of historic animosities.

But these days it owes its notoriety as much to the historic animosity between tenants and owners as to its flamboyant Beaux-Arts design and the fame of its residents.

One guiding principle of the American mission in Afghanistan has been to minimize the military's profile in public, given that nation's historic animosities to foreign intervention.

This incident marked the beginning of the historic Türk-Tiele animosity that plagued both Göktürk Khanates.

For all the historic animosity between Rome and Persia, every Roman officer in Belisarius' army had long since fallen under the sway of Khusrau's magnetic personality.

But there is no talk of curses, no historic animosity between these teams.

Their use of classical "war hypotheses" based on geopolitical thinking and historic animosities with neighbors is an enduring feature which has shaped military roles and missions.

But the businessman explained: "There's a historic animosity that goes back between the Arabs and the Persians.

It also resulted in a security vacuum in the region where tensions owing to deep-seated historic animosities and geopolitical disputes persisted.