Commander
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As one senior
commander
told me, “the Taliban are better equipped and have more fire power.”
This was recommended by a senior US military commander, who said that “60% of insurgent activity could be curbed by reconciliation.”
If guerillas loyal to Aslan Maskhadov (the man elected president of Chechnya some years ago) or Shamil Basaev (another guerrilla commander) had committed a terrorist act at merely one voting station, the huge turnout of Chechens voluntarily expressing "pro-Russian" sentiments would not have been possible.
King Abdullah has made significant personnel changes within the defense, interior, foreign, and intelligence ministries, granting broad powers to two experienced princes – Bandar bin Sultan, who was Ambassador to the US for more than two decades, and Miteb bin Abdullah, the king’s son and long-time
commander
of the National Guard.
The narrative that Russia is under attack has long dominated Kremlin propaganda, with Putin positioning himself as the
commander
of a fortress besieged – militarily, economically, and even in the domain of international sports – by a hostile West.
Imagine the following: what would have happened if the Dutch commander, instead of meeting with the Serb commanders over beer (yes, this happened!),
Most people remember the televised images of General Mladic humiliating the Dutch
commander
of the "safe" Srebrenica enclave, Colonel Ton Karremans, offering him drinks and gifts for his family.
Abu Abdullaj al-Sadiq) currently is the
commander
of the Military Council of Tripoli, and spearheaded the attack on Qaddafi’s Bab al-Aziziya compound.
The departing
commander
of British forces in Afghanistan, Brigadier Mark Carleton-Smith, has claimed that defeating the Taliban was “neither feasible nor supportable.”
When General Waldemar Skrzypczak – the former
commander
of Poland’s Land Forces and of Multinational Division Central-South in Iraq – refused to comply, he was immediately fired from the Military Institute of Armament Technology.
Consider the South African and Tanzanian troops using military force, under a Brazilian commander, to fight armed groups in the Congo, and the many African statesmen whose efforts have been central in mediation attempts across the continent.
If, however, it is to orchestrate a regime change – which it might attempt to do – it will not likely disregard these groups and their powerbases by imposing their former
commander
on the political system.
As a
commander
in the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), which includes the YPG, let me be unequivocal: there is no truth to Turkey’s claims that we are waging war across the border.
Emperor Tewodros committed suicide, the British withdrew, and their commander, Lieutenant-General Sir Robert Napier, was made Baron Napier of Magdala.
Their
commander
in the film, Colonel Mathieu (based on General Jacques Massu), explained the logic of the situation from the French point of view.
As Admiral Dennis C. Blair, a former
commander
of the US Pacific Fleet, stated at a recent conference, “The history of Asia from the 1930s to about 1955 or so was not pretty in any way….I don’t think any country can have a monopoly on righteousness, or on guilt and shame” for that time.
The position of the
commander
of the Palestinian forces supposedly puts the various Palestinian military, security, and intelligence units under one leader, who is expected to ensure the rule of law.
Waiting for spring to come is ex-mujahideen
commander
Gulbuddin Hekmatyar - a former favorite of the CIA and Pakistan's ISI during the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan.
Ratko Mladic, the Serb
commander
and war criminal, deported the women and children under the eyes of the UN, while capturing and murdering the men and adolescent boys.
One of these officials, Fatmir Limaj, a former KLA commander, is now Kosovo’s Minister of Transportation and Telecommunication, a portfolio fat with contract money.
If, as in Bosnia, a
commander'
s goal is to replace the Muslim population of a given area with Serbs, then war has, by definition, been made indistinguishable from a war crime.
Were such a Serb
commander
to fight by the rules outlined in IHL--that is, afford civilians a basic measure of protection--there would be no purpose in initiating hostilities in the first place.
For his part, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson spent all of his time on the ground in South Korea last month with the US military
commander
there, rather than visiting with his own employees: the diplomats posted at the US embassy.
In one workshop, the local military
commander
came for a couple of hours, as a courtesy, and ended up staying for the whole week.
As Iraqi Colonel Omar Ali, the Iraqi battalion
commander
in Mosul, the main focus of the insurgency today, recently put it, “Without the Americans, it would be impossible for us to control Iraq.”
As General Curtis Scaparrotti, the top US military
commander
in South Korea, recently warned, North Korea may already have access, through Iran and Pakistan, to the expertise needed to miniaturize a nuclear device and mount it on a missile.
America’s military
commander
in Afghanistan, General David Petraeus, and others have drawn attention to the damaging impact of America’s pro-Israel bias on its interests in some of the world’s most geopolitically sensitive regions.
Abbas remains the Palestinian president, and the Basic Law makes him
commander
of all Palestinian security forces.
The latter group is coalescing under the leadership of former chief nuclear negotiator Ali Larijani, Tehran mayor Mohammmed Bagher Ghalibaf, and former Revolutionary Guard
commander
Mohsen Rezaii.
But the polity lacked a constitutional mechanism for civilian control of the military, while the emperor was the designated supreme
commander.
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