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It would endanger the single most important – if slightly ironic – legacy of the FMLN’s armed struggle: the creation of a liberal democracy in El Salvador.
Rather than sending an army clad in khaki and camouflage, the US has deployed an army of suits armed with talking points to make the case for stronger enforcement.
Unfazed by reality, the opposition continues to demand that the guerillas be prosecuted for their crimes, while members of the Colombian armed forces who committed war crimes should be offered “judicial relief.”
If nothing else, this would mean that politicians could no longer use the excuse of armed conflict to justify their failure to address the country’s colossal social and economic problems.
The problem is that unless there is a viable opposition, the only check on the AKP will be its own conscience and a crackdown by the still secular-oriented armed forces.
The president names the head of the armed forces, a power that could potentially turn the military into a servant of the government.
Japan, whose armed forces were entirely blamed for driving the country into the catastrophic Pacific War, was not even supposed to have an army or navy after the war.
Similarly, civil servants must forego promised pay increases, and the government is looking for annual savings in the federal armed forces of up to €3 billion through structural reforms.
The commission concluded that states have a responsibility to protect their citizens, and should be helped to do so by peaceful means, but that if a state disregarded that responsibility by attacking its own citizens, the international community could consider armed intervention.
But in 2011, as Colonel Muammar el-Qaddafi prepared to exterminate his opponents in Benghazi, the Security Council invoked R2P as the basis for a resolution authorizing NATO to use armed force in Libya.
The IRA commitment to decommission weapons by May 2000 is contingent on the overall implementation of the Belfast Agreement, including demilitarisation by the British army; radical reform of the Royal Ulster Constabulary (the province’s armed police force); effectively functioning devolved administration and cross-border bodies; prisoner releases, equality and cultural reforms.
Armed with that insight, the disease of the business cycle should be addressed in one or more of three ways.
Those who dreamt of a single federal nation, capable of asserting a strong foreign policy backed by potent armed forces, are perhaps disappointed by the shape of today’s EU.
Fearful of challenging the armed terrorists, the international bodies that govern Kosovo prefer to appease them.
The Chinese armed forces are now well equipped, but lack comparable battlefield experience.
The Bush administration allowed all the various players to be set against each other: Pakistan against India and Afghanistan; the military against the civilian government within Pakistan;Nawaz Sharif against Asif Ali Zardari, within the civilian government—not to mention the various tribes that have been armed by the military in order to fight the Pakistani Taliban fighting each other.
The terror of the Red Guards, the armed fights between the rebellious sects, the teams established to “cleanse” the social classes, and all the bloody massacres are simply left to rot in China’s memory.
The attack on an Egyptian army outpost in the Sinai last summer, in which armed militants killed 16 soldiers, demonstrated that terrorism threatens Egypt just as it does Israel.
South Asia’s False SpringNEW DELHI – From the armed coup that recently ousted the Maldives’ first democratically elected president, Mohamed Nasheed, to the Pakistani Supreme Court’s current effort to undermine a toothless but elected government by indicting Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani on contempt charges, South Asia’s democratic advances appear to be shifting into reverse.
In July, amidst the turmoil surrounding the judicial flip-flopping on his candidacy, busloads of his followers--including paramilitaries armed with machetes and guns--entered the capital and attacked groups of people critical of the general.
There is a risk of armed clashes in the East and South China Seas, and North Korea continues to develop nuclear weapons and ballistic missiles, despite tougher sanctions pushed by the United States and the United Nations.
In the aftermath of the invasion, Shia Iraqi militias, which Iran had financed and armed with sophisticated explosive devices, regularly attacked US troops.
Recent armed clashes between Hezbollah and the Lebanese government are, it is said, just another sign of Iran’s hegemonic reach.
The Syrian armed forces have so much blood on their hands that those who have suffered losses or sympathize with the victims of repression are sure to demand that the killers be held accountable.
The bottom line is that Libya is now run by myriad mafia-style criminal groups and armed militias.
Armed with Trade Promotion Authority (TPA), the Bush administration is keen to push ahead with the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA).
stake in society to groups that may otherwise receive more respect and recognition from engaging in armed violence…”This was precisely what the arms-for-land agreement aimed to achieve – and could have achieved better with World Bank support had it come when the UN requested it.
Hard Truths About Europe’s Soft PowerLONDON – In the run-up to last December’s European Union defense summit, British General Nick Houghton warned that the United Kingdom’s armed forces risked being “hollowed out.”
Worse, the prevailing attitude toward defense overlooks the vital deterrent purpose of armed forces.
Europe’s leaders do not need to resort to gunboat diplomacy to resolve every political dispute, but they do need to understand how armed forces work as instruments of statecraft.
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