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  • The Bronze Star Medal is a United States Armed Forces individual military decoration which may be awarded for bravery, acts of merit, or meritorious ...
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  • vehicle that is protected by armor and armed with weapons. Most AFVs are ... designed primarily to engage enemy forces by the use of direct fire ...
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  • The Silver Star is the third highest military decoration that can be awarded to a member of any branch of the United States Armed Forces. The ...
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  • Condition of the Wounded and Sick in Armed Forces in the Field" (first ... Sick and Shipwrecked Members of Armed Forces at Sea" (first adopted ...
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  • to bring harmony and cooperation within the armed forces. ... the British Military and the Canadian armed forces. For members of the United ...
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  • On July 26, 1953, a group of approximately one hundred poorly armed ... "Che" Guevara, who joined their forces. They were trained by Alberto ...
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  • The Korean forces, known as "Tiger Hunters," were led by ... ==The armed conflict== On June 10, 1871, the Americans attacked Choji ...
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  • at Hyphasis. Alexander divided his forces, leading one group campaigning ... Alexander left behind a contingent of Greek forces which established ...
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  • in the world, the Republic of Korea Armed Forces, or ROK Armed Forces ... Although the National Armed Forces Organization Act stipulates that ...
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  • was that the local government and police forces were made up mostly of those ... camps on Mt. Hallasan and the government forces held the coastal towns. Farming ...
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  • had made the journey to the new territory, armed and ready to fight. Kansas, and in November 1854, thousands of armed Southerners known as "border ...
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  • Whites were combined into the so called Armed Forces of South Russia (Вооружённые ... by General Denikin and named the "Armed Forces of the South of Russia ...
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  • catch, not worth the trouble of an armed conflict. Ganghwa Island, ... Goryeo took refuge on the island as Mongol forces invaded in 1232. ...
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  • degree and constitute the main bulk of armed forces available for defense ... referred to the land component of the armed forces, both regular (full time ...
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  • the Indian Military, Pakistan's armed forces had a qualitative edge ... * Iqbal, Pervaiz. The Armed Forces of Pakistan. Allen & Unwin ...
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  • and the Unified Command of Pact Armed Forces, which had authority over ... Warsaw Pact forces were utilized at times, such as during the 1968 ...
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  • sacking of Lawrence, Kansas by pro-slavery forces, John Brown and a band of ... Sovereign proclaiming that proslavery forces "are determined to repel ...
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  • “generally refer to conflicts with armed forces on either side which are ... additional requirement for identifiable armed forces. The December 1990 version ...
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  • naval arm of the Weimar Republic’s Armed Forces. He commanded torpedo ... to ensuring the loyalty of the German armed forces and trying to ensure German ...
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  • The Korean Peninsula had been divided between occupation forces of ... North Korea to withdraw forthwith their armed forces to the 38th parallel; ...
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  • the sacrifices of members of the armed forces and of civilians in times ... to the observance of members of the armed forces who were killed during war. ...
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  • The armed forces disposed of a vast arsenal of grenades and bombs ... were quite vocal in blessing the armed forces of their Italian “fatherland ...
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  • in the Roman civil war between the forces supporting Octavian and those ... of a severe malaria that had struck his forces while he was waiting for ...
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  • officer-commissioning program for the armed forces. Its founder, Captain ... officers in all branches of the U.S. Armed Forces except the U.S. Coast ...
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  • struggle through the dual process of armed conflict and negotiation ... ZAPU forces committed many acts of violence during their war to overthrow ...
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  • dissatisfaction among Royal Indian Armed Forces during and after the war ... dissatisfaction among Royal Indian Armed Forces during and after the war ...
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  • Mexican War of Independence (1810-1821), was an armed conflict between ... However, the rebel army failed to defeat the large and heavily-armed ...
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  • that is awarded to members of the U.S. armed forces who are wounded by the ... the United States to any member of the Armed Forces of the United States who ...
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  • Military historians classify suicide bombing as a form of armed violence ... installations, armored vehicles, or armed and wary soldiers. The consistent ...
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  • refers to the combination of the U.S. armed forces, its arms industry, and ... proportion of people serving in the armed forces—was 12.2 percent, which ...
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  • as the Anti-Sandinista Guerrilla Special Forces, the 15th of September Legion ... with the Nicaraguan Revolutionary Armed Forces (FARN) as its armed wing. ...
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  • warriors joined Attila the Hun's forces in the Battle of Chalons ... the Alani drawing up a battle-line of heavy-armed and the Heruli of light-armed ...
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  • workers, and by October most of these armed workers had gone over to ... When Adolf Hitler's forces invaded the Soviet Union in 1941, ...
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  • of all Conakry and the country's armed forces. According to Guinée ... === Armed forces === Guinea's armed forces numbered about 9,700 ...
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  • ===Armed Forces Retirement Home=== * President Lincoln and Soldiers' Home National Monument--District of Columbia (managed by the non-profit ...
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  • study of the Confucian classics rather than armed rebellion. In April 1860 ... 1854-1895) defeated the government forces at the Battle of Gobu, after ...
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  • military skills, taught the Cuban forces what would be their most ... invasion of that country), as Chief of the Armed Forces. ...
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  • on a colonial project. However, Allied forces eventually captured Italian ... Verlaci was established. The Albanian armed forces were subsumed into Italian ...
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  • requires the mobilization not only of armed forces but also of whole populations ... Not only were men and women conscripted into the armed forces from ...
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  • to international borders, since all air forces clearly demarcate training ... the Kargil Conflict, where both nuclear armed countries fought high altitude ...
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  • his supporters and the new imperial forces, Kaishu negotiated the peaceful ... States Navy led a squadron of heavily armed warships into the bay off ...
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  • in a guerrilla war between government forces and the National Resistance ... then deputy commander of the Ugandan armed forces. When the Parliament demanded ...
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  • with Western superior firepower and armed forces. Either adopt Western ... * Grimmett, Richard F. Instances of use of United States Armed Forces ...
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  • Qi of Qin (state) once defeated the allied forces of Han (state) and Wei (state ... reveal two new figures: A four-headed, four-armed Brahma and a one headed, ...
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  • the DIA and intelligence groups within the armed services, but other agencies ... the separate intelligence staffs of the armed forces as well as civilian intelligence ...
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  • the Edo period. It was the last major armed conflict in Japan until the ... from the region opposed the Tokugawa forces in the Battle of Sekigahara ...
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  • the east. Reports claim that the Ethiopian armed presence in the region, which ... then a lull as both sides mobilized huge forces along their common border ...
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  • The military law of England in early times existed, like the forces ... obligation of every member of the U.S. armed forces, a principle established ...
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  • and was regarded as the beginning of the armed struggle in which some Irish ... In such a case he believed that an armed rebellion would have mass ...
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  • was subject to constant harassment by Ottoman forces. Upon the sudden ... the Turks with four times the Hungarian forces. Nevertheless, victory was ...
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  • an aircraft, by a person or group, usually armed. The first recorded incident ... forest between Paris and Lyon, France. The armed chauffeur and young secretary ...
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  • Rwanda's armed forces consist of mostly infantry and an air force ... war of 1994 weakened the government armed forces, which could not stop ...
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  • 1964. In April 1966, the Rhodesian armed forces engaged militants in Sinoia ... Zambia. An operation by the Rhodesian armed forces to destroy a ZIPRA base ...
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  • large French cities or towns. These police forces were later assisted by inspecteurs ... to the Civil Power is a role of many armed forces). A high-profile example ...
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  • a unified militia over several disparate forces and the ability of a federal ... of the states. He uses the British Armed Forces and British militias as ...
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  • ) was an armed Polish insurrection by the city's populace early ... Although the Russian forces were more numerous and better equipped ...
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  • tactics to whittle away at the Kuomintang forces, increasing the size of his ... considered founders of China's armed forces, at the Chinese Military ...
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  • his commission and took command of the armed forces of the state of Virginia ... who have served in the United States Armed Forces. Planning for the memorial ...
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  • or leather shields; horsemen in cuirasses, armed with iron lances, swords ... winds, though, and was unable to send any forces until spring. Narvaez’s ...
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  • enemy power during or immediately after an armed conflict or war. International ... and New Zealand held by the Japanese armed forces were subject to brutal ...
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  • and independence of the Philippines through armed force. He quickly rose to ... and independence of the Philippines through armed force. He joined as a lieutenant ...
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  • in February 1967, and more conservative forces attempted to curb Red Guard ... with Red Guard leaders, criticized their armed struggle, and abolished the ...
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  • a "people's war" of armed struggle involving guerrilla ... Democracy, and the Theory of Productive Forces as applied to village-level ...
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  • As ordered by the Stavka (the Soviet Armed Forces Command), the Dukhovshchina ... *Istomin, V.P. Operations of Soviet Armed Forces During the Great ...
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  • she was kidnapped by the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) on ... to avoid direct confrontation with government armed forces. ...
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  • proposed a plan to separate the opposing forces by placing United Nations ... Six Day War. During the war, Israeli armed forces captured the east bank ...
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  • regime later renamed it 'Tatmadaw (Armed Forces) Day'. ... Army was renamed the Patriotic Burmese Forces (PBF), and then gradually ...
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  • of China, geographically belonged to China. Armed with that confidence and ... provisions. Constant attacks by Goguryeo forces and illness inflicted heavy ...
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  • Pegu would augment Toungoo's military forces, strengthening Toungoo to ... region around Bassein and augmenting his forces with military manpower and ...
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  • surrounded by much larger American militia forces, took place after his retreat ... When, on August 1, 1777, Burgoyne's forces finally reached the Hudson ...
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  • tanks, naval vessels, and planes of modern German forces. ... Since German armed forces began seeing active service again, first ...
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  • leadership also knew the state of their armed forces and did all they could ... to mobilize the British Empire's armed forces on a war footing. France ...
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  • then fighting against Nicaraguan government forces. Shapiro was motivated ... fighting against Nicaraguan government forces. It features interviews with ...
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  • arrangement." Schools and armed forces camps regularly perform ... Schools and armed forces camps regularly perform the national anthem ...
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  • and larger, impersonal historical forces that are the real cause of ... or is the product of inevitable historical forces. He also introduced the concept ...
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  • by his Queen Taytu Betul, had led large forces into Tigray, and besieged ... 1, 1896. Almost half of all the Italian forces in East Africa were concentrated ...
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  • the objection is to any role within armed forces and results in complete ... problem, because the legions and other armed forces were largely composed ...
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  • D9 Bulldozer used by Israel's armed forces.]] Bulldozers can be ... D9, used by the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) for detonating explosive ...
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  • 40 anarchists were killed by Cheka forces, and 500 arrested and jailed ... The Cheka was also used against the armed anarchist Black Army of ...
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  • The Iran-Iraq War, also called the First Persian Gulf War, or the Imposed War (جنگتحمیلی) in Iran, was a war between the armed forces ...
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  • Zone (DMZ) where South and North Korean forces stand face-to-face. The two ... administrative facilities for both guard forces are located within the JSA ...
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  • a more prominent role in contemporary armed forces. Many countries have historically ... In the American armed forces, the 1994 rules forbidding female involvement ...
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  • the facility was renamed the "Armed Forces Medical Library." legislation which transformed the “Armed Forces Medical Library” into ...
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  • ally in Africa, and became one of the best-armed nations of the region as ... onslaughts by the northern guerilla forces. ==1990s== The Mengistu ...
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  • of all, or large parts of the armed forces of one geopolitical entity ... entity may be termed an invasion if armed forces enter into a well-defined ...
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  • On August 8, Queen Elizabeth went to Tilbury to encourage her forces ... or by execution at the hands of English forces in Ireland. The reports from ...
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  • but because elements of the Portuguese Armed Forces staged a coup in Lisbon ... In the late 1950s, the Portuguese Armed Forces saw themselves confronted ...
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  • Japan was unable to reconstitute its naval forces while the American shipbuilding ... of America's remaining carrier forces. This concern was acutely ...
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  • near Mohács, Hungary. In the battle, forces of the Kingdom of Hungary ... The Hungarian forces chose the battlefield, an open but uneven plain ...
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  • Upon hearing the news of the landing of the Duke's forces, the ... of the recent Stamford Bridge battle, were armed principally with swords, ...
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  • the three movements eventually led to armed conflict, with FNLA and UNITA ... cities previously held by Savimbi's forces. Savimbi returned to guerrilla ...
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  • politics, with the support of the armed forces whom he, in classical ... the most important interest group, the armed forces led by Defense Minister ...
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  • The strategic nuclear forces niche of the Soviet Union and the United ... which assumed real reductions in strategic forces to 2250 of all categories ...
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  • appointed inspector-general of auxiliary forces, but had not held the post ... Lord Chelmsford in command of the forces in the Zulu War, and as governor ...
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  • fought on British soil. It was between the forces of the Jacobites, who supported ... Pretender," successfully raised forces, mainly of Scottish Highland ...
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  • defeated by General Kim Yu-shin's forces. Tang forces withdrew their ... equal to the defeat of the Islamic forces by Charlemagne in France ...
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  • latter had a background in the U.S. Army Air Forces). John Ray Skates ... MacArthur was to have total command of all forces, should circumstances made ...
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  • first two Ugandans to become Officer (armed forces)|Commissioned Officers ... 1970, Obote himself took control of the armed forces, reducing General Amin ...
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  • The Warsaw Uprising (Powstanie Warszawskie) was an armed struggle ... Tempest, which would link up with British forces, changed in 1943 when it ...
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  • control-tower operator. His experiences in the armed forces would provide him with the material to write his next major book Little Friend, Little Friend ...
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  • duty to Afghanistan to train the Afghan armed forces. In May 1978, the governments ... On December 22, the Soviet advisers to the Afghan Armed Forces advised ...
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  • skirmishes between the countries' armed forces, first on March 20 and ... not invincibility—of its armed forces. Dr Ahmad Faruqui, Remember ...
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  • who are resisting attempted subjugation by armed minorities or by outside ... The United States supplied French forces with equipment and military ...
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  • The Somali Civil War is an armed conflict in Somalia that started ... in 1964. This second dispute led to armed conflict. Somali irredentism ...
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  • bonds began to grow between NATO's armed forces, such as the NATO Tiger ... from NATO command. In 1966, all French armed forces were removed from NATO ...
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  • Kornilov his commander-in-chief of the armed forces. In September 1917 General ... and the fighting efficiency of the armed forces. Believing that only the ...
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  • gallantry by members of the U.S. armed forces had been established. ... for each branch of the United States armed forces: the Army, Navy and Air ...
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  • Herzegovina, and Bosnian Civil War) was an armed conflict that took place ... (Hrvatsko Vijeće Obrane, HVO) as the armed forces of the Herzeg-Bosnia, ...
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  • of Toba Fushimi, in which an army led by forces from Choshu and Satsuma defeated ... mandating that every male serve in the armed forces for three years upon turning ...
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  • (EPLF), having defeated the Ethiopian forces in Eritrea, took control ... 1970s, the EPLF had become the dominant armed Eritrean group fighting against ...
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  • garrison in Malakand. Although the British forces had been divided among a ... Hope Meiklejohn, commander of the British forces at Malakand South. Second ...
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  • tried. It is, however, usual that the armed forces of a civilized country ... If a member of the armed forces breaks their own military code then ...
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  • line military unit in the San Marino armed forces (a state border patrol ... the responsibility of Italy's armed forces. ===Foreign relations=== ...
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  • thwarted Richard finally resorted to armed hostilities in 1455, at the ... Although armed clashes had occurred previously between supporters ...
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  • goal and operate as a branch of the armed forces. Richard Taber, The War ... The conflict between the Soviet armed forces and the "Forest Brothers ...
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  • within the KSČ and "foreign" forces as well. It called on the ... assistance, including assistance with armed forces."H. Gordon Skilling ...
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  • opposed to his rule with his special forces, the "Red Berets" ... in 1964. This second dispute led to armed conflict. Somali irredentism ...
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  • and the former Nazi Germany) have their armed forces fly specially designed ... Other countries' armed forces (such as those of the United States ...
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  • own tribe of Manasseh in order to meet an armed force of Midianites and the ... for their lives. The previously dismissed forces of Naphtali and Manasseh ...
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  • is still going strong even after 150 years. The Armed Forces of India is another institution which is subordinate to the government but is a very old ...
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  • An armed conflict between Liu and Sun quickly developed, because in ... not last long, however. After Sun's forces, under the command of Lu ...
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  • demanded a total ban on the use of the armed forces in quelling domestic conflicts. ... According to the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces, 3,826 ...
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  • M. Callaghan and Franz Kernic (eds.), Armed Forces and International Security: ... of new junior conscripts in the armed forces, involves a spectrum of ...
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  • was ousted in a military coup led by armed forces commander Idi Amin Dada ... the economy. In October 1978, Tanzanian armed forces repulsed an incursion ...
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  • Surinamese armed forces consist of the national army under the control ... logistical material to the Surinamese armed forces. The Netherlands, France ...
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  • succeeded in capturing control of the armed forces in Petrograd and later ... They extracted the means for the creation of material productive forces ...
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  • pack are on display at the Central Museum of Armed Forces in Moscow. A small piece of the plane was returned to the United States and is on display ...
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  • chief of state, prime minister and chief of the armed forces. ... Sudan (GOS) has deployed its regular armed forces and militia notoriously ...
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  • to supervise the surrender of Japanese forces in their sectors, divided ... the re-occupation of Korea by foreign forces. Two days following the atomic ...
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  • The Balkan countries themselves (except Serbia) sent armed bands inside ... impossible. The Turks raised their normal forces and in order to make up for ...
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  • a poorly planned and ill-supported armed uprising to overthrow Yuan ... join him or support his efforts in inciting armed uprising against Yuan Shikai ...
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  • === United States Armed Forces === The United States Armed Forces' "Don't Ask, Don't ...
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  • the Convention. It ended after thousands of armed citizens surrounded the Convention ... delegated to the départements and armed forces. The Gironde saw its influence ...
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  • 1964-1966, when the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) and ... particularly the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) and ...
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  • of those who died as active-duty members of the Armed forces, veterans retired from active military service, Presidents or former President of the United ...
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  • Afghanistan, fought between the British forces under command of General ... five mile retreat to the city of Kandahar. Armed local irregulars, exhaustion ...
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  • # Tasks of combat forces in crises management, including peacemaking ... rescue, peacekeeping and tasks of combat forces in crisis management, including ...
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  • (1941), Zahedi was arrested by British forces in 1942 allegedly for his ... Zahedi became Inspector of military forces in southern Iran. He became ...
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  • regain control of its former colony, Dutch forces did not attempt to invade ... separation. Out of these emerged the armed secessionists of the Free ...
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  • to support the medical services of the armed forces of the European countries ... Sick and Shipwrecked Members of Armed Forces at Sea," now called ...
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  • Lebanon, Yemen, and Saudi Arabia joined forces against the newly created ... During the following eight months, Israel forces defended the Jewish ...
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  • being integrated into native Afghan Taliban forces. Bergen (2001), 74–88. urged him not to cooperate with coalition forces opposed to Saddam Hussein ...
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  • he not been a slave) of the CSS Planter, an armed Confederate military transport ... 5,000 African-Americans to join the Union forces at Port Royal. This force ...
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  • through a series of military expeditions. Armed clashes continued for many ... of the French-supported rebel group FAN (Forces Armées du Nord), Hissène ...
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  • Hall—was destroyed by the Pakistani armed forces, and an estimated 600 ... On Thursday night West Pakistani armed forces suddenly attacked the ...
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  • designed to counter long range, nuclear-armed Intercontinental ballistic ... strategic parity with the US in ICBM forces. A nuclear war would no longer ...
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  • agreeing on the full withdrawal of Israeli forces from the Sinai Peninsula ... Declaration of Revolt was publicized, and armed attacks against British forces ...
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  • of the navy, police stations and armed forces. The students developed ... Despite being outnumbered, Castro's forces scored a series of victories ...
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  • in 1933. Germany's political police forces came under his authority ... Germany's non-political detective forces (Kripo). With the outbreak ...
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  • # The abolition of all political sections in the armed forces. No ... On March 17, the Bolshevik forces finally entered the city of Kronstadt ...
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  • By that time hundreds of thousands of Parisians were armed members ... of the German army into the city led to an armed clash. Before the Germans ...
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  • The sans-culottes also populated the ranks of paramilitary forces ... intensive campaign, the principle of an armed bourgeois militia was enacted ...
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