Military force has played a role as well.

But these trade offs must be made if Europe s military is to meet the Continent s security needs.

The military must be taken off the streets.

Even the military faces these changes.

Japan's Peace Constitution supposedly bans possession of military forces.

Military forces of the Greek state now take active part in the conflict.

Military force is obviously a source of hard power, but the same resource can sometimes contribute to soft power behavior.

Russia s armed forces are able to project little in the way of usable military might.

He had become one more casualty of the impunity that the armed forces enjoy in Kashmir.

One comprises the US security establishment, including the military, the intelligence agencies, and their staunch supporters in Congress.

America's armed forces are an essential background to much of what the US accomplishes internationally.

The armed forces, however, claim a constitutional mandate to protect the Republic s secular traditions.

For defense, the US created the Department of Homeland Security and is transforming its military.

In Afghanistan, Pakistan s military and intelligence agencies sought strategic depth against India.

The armed forces and police of States therefore need small arms and light weapons.

(b) Call upon the Haitian Armed Forces to respect the Agreement signed on 3 July at Governors Island

And this is to say nothing of the structural faults that continue to impede political progress a defective constitution, censored media, and a partisan security and military establishment.

The military changes the identity of its recruits, inculcating in them values such as duty and service.

The Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia Latin America s oldest guerilla group formed alliances with narcotics cartels.

Moreover, America s military is closely coordinating with Japan, redeploying its troops and strengthening its command and combat capabilities near Taiwan.

We can all benefit from the soft power of an enlarged Europe.

America s overstretched military provides the irrefutable rationale for a deep restructuring of Asia Pacific security.

Alas, outnumbered and outgunned by Mladić s forces, the Dutch surrendered Srebrenica to its fate.

At the time, Gorbachev s policies of perestroika and glasnost were seen by Soviet hardliners as a sell out of communist Russia to the capitalist West.

MADRID The attack by a Western led alliance on Muammar Gaddafi s forces in Libya is driven largely by principled motives.

But it is now clear that the KGB and the military who launched the coup were not defending the idea of communism.

Indeed, more than half of all NATO nations have had forces in both Afghanistan and Iraq.

Meanwhile, the lion s share of the new budget, 63 , will go to the military, police, administration, and debt service.

The country s once powerful military, which collapsed with the demise of communism in 1991, was being rebuilt.

By heaping praise upon one s enemy, likening them to such a worthy opponent as Geronimo, the American military bestows prestige upon themselves.

Hundreds have been killed, and witnesses have reported Myanmar troops shooting civilians and burning homes.

China is modernizing its military and intends to become a significant sea power, prompting many China observers to call for greater transparency.

IV. Armed conflict

After all, the US spends almost as much on its armed forced as the rest of the world combined.

The North s leaders know that superior South Korean and US military forces would win a full scale military conflict.

A nuclear Iran might even threaten America s capacity to project conventional military force in the Gulf in times of crisis.

President Barack Obama has announced that US armed forces will be out of Iraq by the end of 2011.

In fact, Chinese leaders have spent remarkably little, relative to China s growing GDP, on the military.

Back in 1997, when the military pushed the then Islamist led government of Necmettin Erbakan out of power, the Islamist movement fractured.

Its armed forces are set to field new tactical nuclear weapons short range battlefield weapons.

Moreover, he threatened that Iran s armed forces would not remain quiet if economic and cultural pressures continued.

Meanwhile, across the border in Afghanistan, US forces are experiencing frequent ambushes and rocket attacks upon their bases.

No military force has yet perceived the need to station soldiers on its various reconnaissance, communication, or navigation satellites.

On top of all this, the US military, rather than being a burden, feeds the country s technological superiority by subsidizing basic research.

The Hapsburg Empire acted as a stabilizing force for its peoples and for Europe.