Spain's American colonies took advantage of the postwar chaos to proclaim their independence, and most established republican governments.

During the postwar chaos, they not only failed to stop looting, but also saw many of their own stations ransacked and stripped of weapons and patrol cars.

His studies were disrupted by the war and postwar chaos, and he left Hungary in 1948, following the communist takeover.

Then Szczecin, which the Germans called Stettin, shunted back and forth between Germans and Poles at least three times in the postwar chaos.

The station was gutted in the postwar chaos.

Policy makers searching for their bearings in the postwar chaos made "containment" America's grand strategy for the next half-century.

But the figures for postwar civilian deaths, if accurate, suggest that a precision American bombing campaign in the north quickly devolved into postwar chaos.

"I'm in my fifties, and even considering the postwar chaos, I'm a decade behind my field."

American officials say that the postwar chaos left them with no choice but to work with militia leaders involved in drug dealing.

Others saw his statements as a reflection of his pessimism about the postwar chaos in Iraq.