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The ICC indicted Kony and four other LRA commanders in 2005 on charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity.
In the same way, EUFOR military commanders regularly and frequently exchange information with the heads of such EU civil missions as the EUPOL police mission, the EUSEC security reform mission, the EUJUST justice mission, and so on, including, if present, the European Commission’s own representatives.
It would be wrong to put the entire blame for Russia's inability to crush the rebellion on our military commanders, although their planning could be better.
This transfer of executive authority to local Chechen self-governments will continue to fail unless local Chechen rebel commanders are induced to join the talks.
These commanders are often clan leaders who have never stood for election, and won't ever consider putting their authority up for a vote.
A single command accountable directly to President Putin would rule out uncoordinated actions, improve discipline, strengthen the responsibility of those who are dealing with Chechnya, and diminish the carelessness with Chechen civilian lives of some Russian commanders.
Strengthened by promises of support from the US and China, Pakistan’s military commanders ordered pre-emptive air strikes against India on December 3, 1971.
The winner was Ramzan Kadyrov, one of the field commanders in the fighting.
Seventh, establish different programs for higher-level commanders, providing more orientation, training, credit, and technical assistance.
This limited regional scenario (accounting for 0.04% of the total explosive power of today’s arsenals) recognizes the fallibility of nuclear deterrence, as well as the possible recurrence of the risk factors that led to the Cuban missile crisis, including miscalculation, miscommunication, military escalation, and, potentially, rogue commanders.
With its top leadership ensconced in Pakistan and its field commanders in Afghanistan becoming increasingly autonomous, the Taliban no longer has a centralized command.
It is difficult to see how NATO can succeed in stabilizing Afghanistan unless it is willing to commit more troops and give commanders more flexibility.
Some less careful commanders of the KLA even talk about the 100,000 Albanians in Greece as an ultimate target for their irredentist goals.
So solicitous of the terrorists' desires are some countries that America's representative to the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) conducted negotiations with Macedonian politicians and terrorist commanders not in Skopje or Tetovo but in Prizren, a Kosovar city where they are influential.
Trump’s cancellation of two major US-South Korean joint military exercises already has commanders from both countries worried about their military readiness.
Of Yemen’s four regional commanders, only Southern Command Chief General Mahdi Maqwala still backs him.
Though it would take time for an ad hoc Arab tribunal to be formed and to reach the point at which it could issue indictments, Syrian military commanders would immediately be put on notice that they could face prosecution for their actions against protesters.
Last May, 82 Chibok girls were released, in exchange for five Boko Haram commanders.
Consider the transformation of American military behavior from the Vietnam era, when commanders spoke of destroying villages "in order to save them," to its operations in Kosovo and Afghanistan, where military lawyers and even ICRC officials were consulted on what targets could be bombed.
If anything, the erosion of IHL now stems as much from decisions made in Washington as from the cruelties of militia commanders in West African jungles.
As US military commanders well know, strikes that failed to eliminate all of North Korea’s nuclear weapons at once could trigger a regional – or even a nuclear – war costing millions of lives.
US policymakers in particular wanted to take advantage of the ongoing surge in NATO combat forces in Afghanistan – which reached 150,000 in August, of which some two-thirds were American – to shake Taliban commanders’ conviction that they were winning the war.
By appointing a special tribunal to try Musharraf, the Sharif government is sending a strong signal to the military – particularly its senior commanders – that they are not above the law.
Worryingly, this might also happen if the FARC splits, with one part deciding to negotiate while hard-line military commanders fight on.
In the event of sustained protests and potential violence, top military commanders may decide to send Musharraf home – a decision that would not be unprecedented in Pakistan’s chronically turbulent history.
Line commanders could take advantage of the equivocality of civilian policy, particularly given the military’s growing political clout and the CCP’s dependence on popular nationalist sentiment.
The commanders responsible were fired, and the assassins are being brought to trial before civilian courts.
And he welcomed the creation of the International Criminal Court as the legal instrument to end impunity and prosecute and punish military commanders and political leaders for the most heinous crimes.
Reacting to mounting fear of Western military action against Iran’s nuclear facilities, Revolutionary Guard commanders recently sharpened their rhetoric against the US and Israel.
Indeed, Khamenei and Revolutionary Guard commanders believe that covert war will inevitably become overt if Israel and the West truly believe that Iran is approaching a dangerous point in its nuclear program.
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