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The American University of Beirut, founded in 1866, has arguably done more to transform the Middle East in positive ways than any other comparable institution, yet it receives only $3 million in annual aid from the United States, which spends billions on armies and weaponry in the region.
But it would be a mistake to limit our concern solely to Islamic terrorists, for that would ignore the way that technology is putting into the hands of deviant groups and individuals' destructive capabilities that were once limited primarily to governments and armies.
As the occupying armies were replaced by civilian officials as administrators, and Germans were recruited to help them, the silver lining of Western democracy became more and more noticeable.
While there was concern in Europe about the growing strength of armies, the view that the war was precipitated directly by the arms race is facile.
Other countries, such as Iran, China, and North Korea, already boast large cyber armies, with tens of thousands of recruits who can monitor, track, counter, and mitigate threats to the country.
No Islamist armies are about to march into Europe – indeed, most victims of Revolutionary Islamism live in the Middle East, not in Europe – and Ahmadinejad, his nasty rhetoric notwithstanding, does not have a fraction of Hitler’s power.
That said, Macron’s vision of a European army under a central EU-level command will remain aspirational for the foreseeable future, for the simple reason that countries seldom give up their armies voluntarily.
Selling AmericaA year ago, then United States National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice announced that, “We are engaged primarily in a war of ideas, not of armies.”
At a time when six of the world’s ten largest armies are located in the Pacific theater of operations, and 22 of the region’s 27 countries have army officers as their defense chiefs, the need to invest in the US Army’s mission in the region is clear.
Hemmed in by the Americans and the Russians in the final days of World War II, Hitler convinced himself that he had two armies in reserve to mount a counter-attack and win the war.
And so the Germans fought on, until the combined force of the invading Allied armies overwhelmed them in 1945.
Yet all of the talk at the United Nations is about sanctions and armies, with no path to peace in sight.
In the past, English fans – but they were not the only ones – took the war metaphor too far and acted more like invading armies on the continent of Europe, terrorizing towns unlucky enough to stage an England game.
The Polish freedom movement of 1968 lost its confrontation with police violence; the Prague Spring was crushed by the armies of five Warsaw Pact members.
War implies armies and command structures that can be recognized, if not clearly known; in any case, war entails a military confrontation with an identifiable adversary .
This was a remarkable confession: these officials evidently believed that their policies had wrecked nearly half of Russia's economic capacity in the space of just a few years--a level of destruction not even Hitler's Nazi armies had achieved.
Putin also stopped near the common gravestone of generals and officers of the “White” armies.
Regular armies are no longer the exclusive threat to countries’ security.
In addition to formal public diplomacy mouthpieces like Russia Today and Sputnik, Russia employs armies of paid trolls and botnets to generate false information that can later be circulated and legitimated as if it were true.
Unlike the other ICC suspects, Kenyatta and Ruto committed their alleged crimes not while commanding armies, but during the spontaneous violence that erupted after the elections.
With France becoming less Catholic and the US becoming more diverse, their “zombie” armies’ political power will decay; but, as Trump’s election and Fillon’s political ascendance have shown, they cannot be written off just yet.
The big picture then was that, with the transportation revolution and the deployment of mass armies, war could no longer be seen as the continuation of politics through other means.
Traffic accidents, though rarer, would still be a possibility; in fact, they might be one of the main impediments to implementation of autonomous systems, demanding a restructuring of insurance and liability that could sustain armies of lawyers for years to come.
Not to help us, of course – at least not to help the city that contains armies of feral dogs, making it appear at times like a ghost town in a Sergio Leone cowboy movie.
The latter had cheered the Greek armies when they invaded western Anatolia in 1919.
But de-Ba’athification ended up targeting anyone who ever had ties to Ba’athism, something far beyond what the occupying armies attempted in Germany.
But Al Qaeda is no longer a serious factor in the Afghan war, where the principal combatants are now the American military and the Taliban, with its associated militias and private armies.
But it wouldn’t be easy, owing in part to the Taliban’s fragmentation, with the tail (private armies and militias) wagging the dog.
But technological progress is putting into the hands of deviant groups and individuals destructive capabilities that were once limited primarily to governments and armies.
Instead, armies, tribes, sectarian groups, and religious parties quickly came to the fore.
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