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Stories of Israel’s War of Independence focus on the struggle against the invading Arab armies, rather than Israel’s own violence against the dispossessed and displaced Palestinians.
In 1969, the Chinese and Soviet armies exchanged fire across their disputed border.
The final source of risk, cyberspace, may soon overshadow all the rest, because borders and armies cannot limit it.
The UN has encouraged and facilitated the process – through quiet good offices during the last years of the conflict, human rights monitoring, assistance to the Constituent Assembly election, and monitoring arms and armies during the transition.
The last thing the Portuguese or Greek armies want to do is assume responsibility for governing.
In Germany and Italy, fascist parties came out on top, while elsewhere, dictators were backed by armies or kings.
And ideas tend to advance and retreat slowly, like glaciers, not precipitously, like armies.
Hunger drove the armies to take hostages for ransom.
Other peoples have since fallen under the boots of invading armies, been dispossessed of their lands, or terrorized into fleeing their homes.
If they are, it is essential that they stop financing Russia’s armies – in or out of uniform.
What accounts for the armies of protesters – distinguished, gang-like, by the color of their shirts – whose mutual antipathy often borders on nihilistic rage?
Asia’s Hierarchies of HumiliationPHILADELPHIA – Indian and Chinese troops have been locked in a standoff in Doka La – where the borders of Bhutan, China and India meet – for almost a month now, the longest such impasse between the two armies since 1962.
Indeed, Europe should take a lesson from the wars of the twentieth century and do away with national armies altogether.
All countries have armies, but in Pakistan the army has a country.
Turkey is a true regional superpower, with one of the largest armies in the world.
Except for some odd and hapless individuals, there have been no underground armies, separatist terrorists, campaigns of civil disobedience aimed at unseating governments, or even any mass demonstrations.
The problem is that Iran has consistently squandered its leadership potential, choosing instead to act as a spoiler, especially through the use of proxy armies.
Medieval European cavalries later put political power into the hands of the wealthy, who could afford to support horses and their groomsmen, but the return of mass armies in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries often turned the tables.
Napoleon’s armies, unleashed by the French Revolution’s mass political awakening, set off paroxysms of counter-mobilization that fueled the European revolutions of 1830 and 1848.
For better or worse, it stood in the tradition of German armies since the Kaiserreich.
That is just one reason why an invasion of the caliphate, with local armies supported by Western airstrikes, could have devastating unintended consequences – think of George W. Bush’s invasion of Iraq.
At the same time, non-state actors, such as Hezbollah, Hamas, and al-Qaeda, have taken the place of traditional armies, and suicide bombers equipped with road-side and car bombs or explosive belts have replaced guerrilla fighters with their Kalashnikovs.
But, beyond that, air strikes require targets – elusive when no armies are on the move – and all too often they produce innocent civilian casualties.
We will not let up until Colombia is free of guerilla armies.
For three decades, marauding armies murdered, plundered, and tortured their way through villages and towns.
According to new research by Theresa Schroeder of Radford University and Jonathan Powell of the University of Central Florida, female heads of state may be more likely to provoke military coups in countries where armies are powerful enough to stage them.
It is more often an act of war, albeit war by the weak rather than by organized states and their armies.
Sixty years after the invasion of our country by Hitler's Wehrmacht, and thirty-one years after armies of the Warsaw Pact crushed the Prague Spring, our security is becoming an integral component of the security of the entire Euro-Atlantic world.
The Crusades from the eleventh to the thirteenth century, for example, brought forth what MacKay described as “epidemic frenzy” among would-be crusaders in Europe, accompanied by delusions that God would send armies of saints to fight alongside them.
During the Korean War, however, it fell under the control of the North Korean and Chinese armies; after the armistice, it became North Korea’s southernmost city.
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