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This confluence of political need has created an opportunity for all three countries to cooperate more closely in the management of civilian nuclear power, and this opportunity should not be missed.
A large civilian European Union mission has been deployed.
At the time, the war in Bosnia was already more than a year old; the city of Sarajevo was under siege; tens of thousands of civilian noncombatants had already died; and hundreds of thousands had been forcibly displaced.
With his Civilian Conservation Corps, for example, young men were enlisted to clean up the wilderness and plant trees.
The decision has never been properly explained to civilian authorities in Latin America and is widely perceived as an aggressive act.
This is consistent with the EU’s key characteristic as the world’s first great "Civilian Power".
So, can a comprehensive agreement that respects Iran’s right to civilian nuclear energy, while allaying the international community’s fears of weaponization, be achieved?
The West and Israel do not believe that Iran’s nuclear program is meant to serve merely civilian aims.
Any workable agreement will require Iran to renounce uranium enrichment above the 5% level needed for a civilian nuclear-power program; accept limits on enrichment volumes, the number of centrifuges, and technology; agree to forgo reprocessing; and address operations at the heavy-water reactor in Arak.
And the West – the US, Europe, and, more than any other country, Israel – will have to get used to the idea of living with an Iranian civilian nuclear-power program, while limiting Iran’s capacity to become an emerging military nuclear power.
The military eventually became so strong that it could dictate terms to the civilian government.
On land, like at sea, China uses civilian resources – herders, farmers, and grazers – as the tip of the spear.
Today, China pursues a “cabbage” approach to borders, cutting off access to an adversary’s previously controlled territory and gradually surrounding it with multiple civilian and security layers.
Only close civilian cooperation in intelligence sharing, police work across borders, tracing financial flows, and working to pre-clear cargo manifests and passenger lists can cope with such a threat.
Sanctions on those involved in electronic warfare against the opposition's social media are not the answer to the shelling of civilian neighborhoods in Homs and Deraa.
Of these 23 missions, six have been military and the other 17 civilian.
And we need to strengthen our civilian and military capabilities and boost their funding in order to back up our political decisions.
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.
In Myanmar, which also depends heavily on Chinese aid and trade, the fear of becoming a Chinese satellite was a key reason why the military junta ceded power to a civilian government in the early 2010s.
Demilitarizing Muslim PoliticsISLAMABAD – Can Muslim governments free themselves from their countries’ powerful militaries and establish civilian control comparable to that found in liberal democracies?
The need for an effective UN Security Council reflects the central strategic certainty of the post-Cold War period: security threats are no longer likely to take the form of war between states, but will instead consist in acts of terror, civil wars, and massacres of civilian populations.
Restrictions on civilian use are often not applied to the military.
Given the logistics involved in large-scale wars, there are also significant indirect or second-order effects, such as when a civilian oil tanker on route to Vietnam with fuel for America's forces there ran aground on the coral island of Kiltan in the Laccadives.
As a result, the regime is finding it increasingly difficult to claim, as it has for the last 15 years, that Bouteflika’s leadership represents civilian control over the military.
I had never seen a combat machine gun in a civilian hospital until the day I went to Harare’s Avenues Clinic to visit two women, pro-democracy leaders who had just survived a brutal, methodical beating at the hands of the police.
Russian planes have been bombing the civilian population in southern Syria forcing them to flee to Jordan and Lebanon.
Myanmar’s generals deserve to be condemned for their brutal crackdown on civilian protestors and Buddhist monks.
And far more troubling is the warning by the Nuclear Threat Initiative, a nonprofit devoted to strengthening global security, that many civilian and military nuclear facilities are inadequately protected against cyber-attacks.
But the US would be wise to consider expanding the fight by recruiting civilian volunteers.
Given its long history of contributing to global security through civilian and military missions, the EU has much to offer NATO.
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