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This was evident in cases where the International Atomic Energy Agency was granted access to suspected facilities during the negotiations, only to have local
commanders
turn away its inspectors when they arrived.
The consequences of that decision, which the US has largely chosen to ignore, will come to a head in April, when PMF
commanders
plan to run in Iraq’s parliamentary election.
So, too, the main
commanders
of the Kosovo Liberation Army (UCK).
Tung Tsu in the Art of War instructs commanders: "When encircled in deep ground, break out!"Good advice for China's leadership today.
Many rebel
commanders
take issue with the Kurds’ attempt to exploit the Syrian uprising, whose initial goal was to end nearly five decades of oppression, to advance their own interests.
Long before the civil war in former Yugoslavia, I concluded that the world needed an international court to try governments and army
commanders
for war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide.
It may turn that the depleted uranium bullets used during the Kosovo war cause lethal radiation and that some
commanders
and politicians knew about this.
But experts also note that the former
commanders
were close to Ahmedinejad and had made a great effort over the last two years to help him implement his agenda.
Rather than identifying an urgent national-security threat and weighing the options for countering it, US military
commanders
seem to have perused America’s unused arsenal, happened upon the MOAB, and sought a place where its power could be put on display.
Musharraf backed the military’s opposition to this reform, gaining some gratitude from military
commanders.
AU
commanders
on the ground would retain tactical control, a joint AU-UN command would exercise operational supervision, and the UN would establish the force’s overall strategic objectives.
The revision establishes the future direction of Japan’s military posture by delegating greater authority to the
commanders
of the Self-Defense Forces to initiate defensive actions against immediate threats.
Retired military officers and
commanders
told the court that affirmative action was essential to maintaining an integrated officer corps.
The American military has a global reach, with bases around the world, and its regional
commanders
sometimes act like proconsuls.
Even so, the 20th anniversary of the establishment of the ICTY is worth celebrating, because the movement it has led has forced military commanders, guerrilla leaders, and heads of state around the world to take into account the possibility that they will face justice if crimes against humanity are committed on their watch.
The first time was in July 2012, when fighters stormed Damascus and attacked the National Security headquarters, killing Assad’s top commanders, including the defense minister, the deputy defense minister, and the head of the National Security Bureau.
A regional reconciliation program targeting mid- and lower-tier Taliban and al-Qaeda
commanders
should be developed and implemented by Pakistan and Afghanistan.
A Supreme Court dominated by conservative factions has selected judges and prosecutors, and Afghans have little legal redress in a system that allows local commanders, who hold sway over the judiciary, to act with impunity.
The other two younger men, Muhammad Dahlan and Jibril Rajoub, built political bases of their own as
commanders
of security forces in the Gaza Strip and on the West Bank, respectively.
The Kurds are such a nation: a people of volunteers who know why they fight, a people who, from the humblest to the greatest, from the Peshmerga regular to the loftiest of Kurdish commanders, does not hesitate to take up arms to discourage or to dismantle despotism – and not only on their behalf.
But this requires containing tribal and regional polarization, as well as the rivalries between the Interim National Council (INC) and the Military Council (MC), and between senior military
commanders.
A move by army officers in Tripoli against Qaddafi and his sons might end the conflict, with military
commanders
getting the credit – and the political capital.
Imagine the following: what would have happened if the Dutch commander, instead of meeting with the Serb
commanders
over beer (yes, this happened!),
Indeed, this year's annual session of the Academy of Military Sciences saw army
commanders
and military theorists try to prove that a future source of conflict will be America's desire to control the world's oil-rich regions.
Drone attacks have eliminated many of Al Qaeda’s most experienced commanders, including, most recently, Atiyah Abd al-Rahman.
It also formed a National Defense Council (NDC), dominated by the military (11 army
commanders
versus six civilians – assuming that the interior minister is a civilian).
Police at the local station, scarcely 100 meters away, fled into the bush – despite the fact that senior intelligence officials in Nairobi had warned regional
commanders
three days before that a terrorist attack might be imminent.
The top 2,000 AUC
commanders
who gave themselves up in exchange for reduced sentences face possible criminal trials.
But, beyond the biography of a state – the stories of wars, cannonades, military commanders, statesmen, administrative hierarchy, and empire building that comprise Russia’s official history – there is another history.
Indeed, though LRA Leader Joseph Kony and his three top
commanders
have been wanted by the International Criminal Court (ICC) for war crimes and crimes against humanity since 2005, it was only after the “Kony 2012” Internet campaign made him the world’s most-wanted fugitive that the United States sent some 200 troops to help an African Union force hunt him down.
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