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Hamas and other
armed
groups, I know, have launched rocket attacks from the Gaza Strip that have killed civilians in Israeli towns and villages.
But I also have witnessed how Israel has retaliated with air strikes and
armed
incursions into the Gaza Strip, including Jabalia.
But after the humiliation of the financial crises of the late 1990s, Putin had seen to it that Russia was
armed
with substantial dollar reserves – the third largest after China and Japan.
No one can watch the ongoing violence in Syria without a sense of horror at the
armed
attacks on largely unarmed civilians, overwhelmingly by groups that support President Bashar al-Assad’s regime.
Throughout the 1990’s and into the first years of the new millennium, it battled youth-led
armed
militias in the Niger Delta to assert the central government’s control of the region’s substantial oil receipts.
While the ceasefire remains popular--albeit increasingly tenuous in light of recent events--few Palestinians wish to see the Palestinian Authority permanently break the back of the
armed
resistance forces.
Eight years later, the Korean War also ended without a formal peace treaty, leaving behind a divided and heavily
armed
peninsula.
Last but certainly not least, America’s strong military presence in Asia – which underpins its robust regional alliance system – has reduced the need for Asian countries to develop large military programs of their own, and has reinforced a status quo that discourages
armed
adventurism.
While it retains a heavily armed, salaried, and uniformed guerilla/terrorist force of some 5,000, its leader, Hassan Nasrallah, has been striving for years to build Hezbollah into a legitimate political party and the main representative of Lebanon’s Shia.
Colombia’s Gift to the WorldMADRID – After four long years of talks in Havana, Cuba, Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos has negotiated an end to successive governments’
armed
conflict with the Revolutionary
Armed
Forces of Colombia (FARC), the most resilient insurgent group in Latin America.
Three significant factors led to the peace accord: the Colombian
armed
forces’ increased effectiveness, which enabled them to decimate the FARC’s ranks;Santos’s previous diplomatic groundwork, wherein he repaired Colombia’s previously fraught relations with neighboring Venezuela, Ecuador, and Bolivia, an axis that had long contributed to sustaining the FARC by providing logistical and political support; and, finally, Cuba’s new policy of rapprochement with the United States, which Santos was wise to exploit in his own efforts to make peace.
It would be a fatal error to believe that since we spend money on
armed
forces to this end, national defense is solely a military affair to which the rest of the population need not pay attention.
A new pacifist constitution, written by the Americans, banned the use of
armed
force.
As a result, Hezbollah is no longer the widely popular movement that it once was across the Arab and Muslim worlds, but it remains a highly effective and heavily
armed
force.
But, in just the last few weeks, parts of the Sunni north have erupted in
armed
defiance of Hezbollah and the government that it dominates, and are openly supporting the Syrian rebels.
In a sense, these Sunni groups are creating an
armed
enclave in northern Lebanon to counterbalance the
armed
Shia enclaves in Beirut, the south, and the Bekaa region.
In October, tens of thousands of villagers protesting inadequate resettlement compensation held a local official captive for several hours before ten thousand People’s
Armed
Police officers rescued him.
Even though the SDF still cannot participate in combat, the Anti-Terrorism law is the first that allows Japan to dispatch
armed
forces to join in military operations outside Japanese territory and territorial waters while the shooting war is on.
Moreover, the Ukrainian crisis is far from resolved: the Minsk ceasefire agreements are not respected, and
armed
conflict may escalate at any moment.
It will be harder in countries where they did not, or where the economy remains largely in the hands of the
armed
forces.
Armed
Anglo-American intervention, especially if it is not sanctioned by the United Nations, would do much to undermine liberals and democrats, who need all the credibility they can get.
Unlike hard-power assets (such as
armed
forces), many soft-power resources are separate from the government and are only partly responsive to its purposes.
The current reintegration plan, like two previous attempts at disarmament, falls short of credibly demobilizing
armed
groups and regulating the arms trade.
Moreover, most analysts agree that at least part of the rationale behind Russia’s invasion of Georgia, reigniting fears of a new Cold War, was its confidence that, with America’s
armed
forces pre-occupied with two failing wars (and badly depleted because of a policy of not replacing military resources as fast as they are used up), there was little America could do in response.
After all, even stopping the fighting between regime forces and some
armed
groups – that is, those that associate themselves with the Syrian National Coalition, or are at least willing to coordinate with the Free Syrian Army (FSA) and the partly Saudi-sponsored Islamic Front – would be a major achievement.
Even such limited cooperation would advance the “Geneva process” – especially negotiations aimed at establishing a transitional authority that would command the
armed
forces.
The opposition is fragmented, comprising more than a thousand
armed
groups.
An
armed
attack by the United States, Israel, or both on Iran’s nuclear facilities is another possibility.
But, despite these potential drawbacks, an
armed
attack on Iran’s nuclear facilities will and should remain a distinct possibility given the enormous strategic costs of a nuclear-armed Iran.
And this past October, talks were held in Astana, the capital, on the Syrian crisis, with representatives of the Syrian government and some
armed
opposition groups in attendance – despite Kazakhstan’s distance from the tragic developments in that country.
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