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The original Goldstone Report could have limited its conclusory judgment to an assertion that Israel did not meet its obligation under the international laws of armed conflict to take all feasible measures to minimize harm to civilians.
After all, the US spends almost as much on its armed forced as the rest of the world combined.
Europeans may have to embrace new modes of cooperation among their national armed forces in order to put them to effective use.
Unless Tillerson has in mind a hidden policy to remove Assad by assassination or coup, insisting on his departure as a condition of a political settlement in Syria amounts to prolonging the civil war: more armed support for the opposition will mean more Russian backing for the regime.
Armed with this observation, let's look at the impact of the changes in data processing and communications.
Bush's war in Iraq has done untold damage to America as well, impairing its military power and undermining the morale of the armed forces.
At the same time, the US must modernize its armed forces in response to new challenges – particularly China’s rise.
Libya is already partitioned among rival warlords, with a “national” government that operates only at the indulgence of the armed groups that support it.
But it is Uribe’s resolve not to negotiate with the FARC over kidnappings, and instead to pursue relentlessly the armed insurgency that murdered his father that has defined Uribe’s presidency.
The professionalism of Colombia’s armed forces, coupled with Uribe’s popularity and a growing economy, has delivered, for the first time in three decades, normality to Colombia’s cities and, increasingly, peace and the rule of law to much of its vast jungle regions.
China’s naval build-up is also a function of its growing overseas interests, which Chinese President Hu Jintao has publicly described as a priority for the armed forces.
President Kim himself demanded an apology, but the North only accused South Korea of initiating an armed provocation against it.
China’s new armaments, together with the North Korean crisis, will probably force half a dozen countries in the region to renew their armed forces.
For Russia, this could mean (in the best case) tens of thousands of refugees or (in the worst case) the arrival of armed militias on its territory.
The raid – by heavily armed and masked men! – was allegedly carried out to investigate unlawful actions by the company's personnel.
Yet it treated him as an official guest, granting him meetings with the Defense Minister and chief of staff of the armed forces.
Every year, drug-resistant microbes kill about 700,000 people worldwide – more than three times the annual death toll from armed conflicts.
Russia violated the most basic norm of international relations when it used armed force to change borders in Europe, and it violated US sovereignty through its efforts to influence the 2016 election.
Likewise, following the 1979 Iranian Revolution, the US armed Saddam Hussein’s Iraq to go to war with Iran, resulting in hundreds of thousands of Iranian deaths in the 1980s.
Incarcerated following his arrest last month, he reportedly stands accused of belonging to an armed terrorist organization seeking to overthrow the government.
The problem is that the Libyan army has not been able to act cohesively since the protests began, in contrast to the Egyptian and Tunisian armed forces.
Second, the agreement establishes a transitional-justice regime to address past human-rights violations and possible war crimes committed by FARC guerillas and Colombian armed forces.
Nevertheless, given the large size of China’s armed forces, which currently stands at 2.3 million, a rough calculation would indicate that monthly spending per soldier is at most 2,500 yuan on average – too low to recruit and retain competitive staff.
But this in no way suggests, as Huntington claims, that lack of cultural affinity between the West and China renders armed conflict more likely.
Global rivalry between superpowers armed to the teeth is the stuff of computer games but, except in rare circumstances, such clarity is not the pattern of world politics.
While Fidel wrote doctrinaire articles in the official press, the armed forces took over politics and production.
Nevertheless, the results of the Sixth Fatah Congress reflect a clear bias in favor of becoming a party rather than an armed resistance movement.
As Syria’s crisis goes from bad to worse, those urging armed force are invoking both the tragedy of inaction in Rwanda and Bosnia in the 1990’s, and the triumph of decisive international action in Libya last year.
Today’s refugee camps are often breeding grounds for terrorism, revenge fantasies, and armed insurgency.
Machiavelli argues that a prince ought to be well armed to take action against external powers.
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