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Indeed, it is now clear that one of the main regional challenges is to preserve civilian control of the military, which will require that Latin American elites avoid the temptation to strengthen disproportionately the armed forces’ place in their countries’ domestic and international politics.
They have committed no crime, and are building productive lives in the United States – whether by going to school, working, starting families, establishing businesses, or serving in the armed forces.
After all, neither donor countries nor their partners are exempt from such problems as corruption, political crises, armed conflicts, human rights abuses, vested interests, or international power politics.
While there are no armed opposition groups, the government has sponsored the creation of armed paramilitary groups, known locally as colectivos, charged with defending the “revolution.”
One reason why a ruling party or political movement might create armed support groups is to deter the regular armed forces from attempting a coup.
Soon, the US was providing weapons and training to the PYD’s armed wing.
Most media coverage focuses on refugees fleeing armed conflict (think Syria) or migrants seeking better economic opportunities than they have at home (think Nigeria or Pakistan).
In fact, many armed conflicts, and the mass displacement they cause, can be traced back to food insecurity.
Furthermore, with US support, Colombia’s armed forces have become stronger, owing to modernization of military equipment and doctrine, an increase in the number of soldiers, and improved training.
As a result, armed conflict is becoming increasingly costly for the rebels.
And two retired generals will participate, making the Colombian armed forces more likely to support any agreement.
On the other hand, economic interdependence between Taiwan and mainland China has grown to such an extent that an armed conflict is increasingly unlikely.
And, over time, armed soldiers – some of whom have been targets of new attacks – have become a familiar presence on French streets.
And while Russia is beefing up its armed forces and introducing new battle tanks from an old rusting base, it does not have the economic and industrial might to sustain any long-term war effort – and its leaders know this.
These resources feed armed insurgents, criminal bands and, increasingly, provide the lifeblood for many small peasants, who cultivate some 130 thousand hectares of coca plants.
The armed groups supported by the US and allies since 2011 were assembled under the banner of the Free Syrian Army.
In fact, there was no single army, but rather competing armed groups with distinct backers, ideologies, and goals.
AIDS, hunger, armed conflict, and global warming compete for attention alongside government failure, malaria, and the latest natural disaster.
The Hidden Purposes of High FinanceBERKELEY – No one questions the usefulness of “low” finance: the ability to use checks, banknotes, and credit cards rather than having to cart around chests of silver, scales, and reagents to assay purity, and needing armed guards to protect the silver – and more guards to watch the first set of guards – has obvious efficiencies.
This year in Yemen (a predominantly Sunni country), a Saudi-led coalition is fighting the Zaydi Shia Houthi rebels, whom Iran armed in order to take over the country and gain a foothold on the Arabian Peninsula.
Long before Russia's armed annexation of Crimea and its invasion of eastern Ukraine, the Kremlin played similar games when it engineered the secession of Georgia's South Ossetia and Abkhazia regions and propped up the bandit territory of Transnistria in Moldova.
Indeed, the prominent feminist lawyer Asma Jahangir has 24-hour armed guards.
The most critical barrier for Hamas and others should be a clear commitment to forego armed violence in the pursuit of political ends.
Empowered by their success in ousting former President Hosni Mubarak, and then sending the country’s armed forces back to the barracks, many are readily returning to the streets to hold leaders accountable.
In doing so, it is likely to be armed with a full brief of evidence of war crimes and crimes against humanity now being compiled from eyewitness accounts by the Australian-based International Crimes Evidence Project.
The risk in Iran is an ever more hostile regime armed with nuclear weapons.
The United States military, for instance, hides rape accusers’ identities, and the prevalence of rape in the US armed forces today is off the charts.
Immigration into the Welfare StateMUNICH – The armed conflict destabilizing some Arab countries has unleashed a huge wave of refugees headed for Europe.
A good starting point would be to act on longstanding calls for closer integration of EU members’ armed forces.
Convoys of heavily armed four-wheel-drive vehicles travel at high speed across the Sahel region of Western Africa, bringing hasish from Morocco via Mauritania, Mali, and Niger to Chad and beyond.
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