The main group was the AUC - the United Self-Defence Forces of Colombia, which officially at least has demobilised.
Almost all of Tufin's employees in the country are, like Mr Kitov himself, veterans of the Israel Defence Forces (IDF).
Yet Japan's Self Defence Forces began participating in peacekeeping missions, such as to Cambodia and East Timor, in the 1990s.
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However, the Malawi defence forces, which provides security for the sitting president, shifted security members to Banda's residence amid news of the death.
Policemen and hospital staff milled around in the corridor outside his upstairs room in the well guarded and ultra modern military hospital run by the BDF, the Bahrain Defence Forces.
The Mai Mai militias began as self-defence forces, but are now simply roving bands of thieves and thugs, often under the control of warlords of no particular politics or loyalty.
He favours European co-operation over conventional defence forces.
Expressing utmost concern at the spiralling deadly violence and destruction in Lebanon, the Security Council today called for a full cessation of hostilities in the month-long war between Israel and Hizbollah, mapping out a formula for the phased withdrawal of the Israel Defence Forces from southern Lebanon, while up to 15, 000 United Nations peacekeepers help Lebanese troops take control of the area.
The exclusion of a breakaway Hutu opposition alliance called the National Council for the Defence of Democracy and the Forces for the Defence of Democracy (CNDD-FDD) has been considered a reason for the failure of talks so far.
The strategic defence review included plans to scrap Harrier jump jets, the Navy's flagship HMS Ark Royal and Nimrod spy planes, as well as 42, 000 Ministry of Defence and armed forces jobs.
The Ministry of Defence says 700 armed forces personnel will be involved in the funeral.
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EU's 15 (soon to be over 20) governments and interested others, with their defence ministries and armed forces, will take skill and lots of practice.
Present at the ceremonies to mark the anniversary were the head of Norway's armed forces and its defence minister.
Former Forces for the Defence of Democracy (FDD) rebels won more than half of the seats in local elections.
The defence ministry said the special forces soldier died in the far north of the West African nation after his vehicle hit a roadside bomb.
It was announced earlier that a career army officer, Gen Abdul Fattah al-Sisi, would replace Field Marshal Tantawi as both armed forces chief and defence minister.
But the Forces for the Defence of Democracy (FDD) agreed to participate in the talks in Tanzania and at the weekend, a leader, Pierre Nukurunziza, called for a ceasefire.
Once the size of the defence budget has been determined, choices are required about its allocation between each of the three armed forces and their contribution to the UK's defence output in the form of peace, protection and security for its citizens.
Already, in advance of the publication next month of the Quadrennial Defence Review, a government forecast of what America's armed forces will need from now to 2010, Bill Cohen, the secretary of defence, has hinted that more bases will close, there will be fewer men in uniform, and more aircraft will not be bought.
Defence Secretary Des Browne insisted that British forces in the country were "stretched, but not overstretched".
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Plainly, either defence spending must increase or the armed forces will have to do less.
Brazil's armed forces did not propose the defence council, nor do they see the American presence in Colombia as a threat.
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"We have reorganised our forces, collected them in defence, as we await the decision that will follow consultations going on between the African Union and participating countries, " Ugandan army spokesman Col Felix Kulaijye told the BBC.
After only five months on the job, and in a shaky coalition of Social Democrats and semi-pacifist Greens, he has uncomfortably emerged as the first defence minister since 1945 to send German forces abroad to fight.
Mr Finucane's killing was one of the most controversial of the 30 years of the Troubles in Northern Ireland, mainly because of the allegations of collusion between the Ulster Defence Association and members of the security forces.
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Advocates of the policy say that Europe needs its own forces to encourage investment in defence and to take part in missions, such as peacekeeping in Africa, in which the United States does not want to become involved.
He has used his calm skills to tread a careful line on such controversial issues as the EU Rapid Reaction Force and British participation in National Missile Defence, as well as overseeing British forces in military action in Afghanistan.
The official in the first charge cannot be identified for legal reasons, and the second - who has not been named - is understood to have been either a member of the armed forces or a Ministry of Defence employee.
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Egypt's defence minister has denied claims that the armed forces were involved in killing and torturing protesters during Egypt's revolution.
Defence Minister Henry Rangel Silva said the armed forces had identified some groups planning to cause public disturbances but said violence was "unlikely", the state news agency AVN reported.
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