When Wiranto took over the military in March 1998, Suparman was plucked from the remote Natuna archipelago to become East Java's regional military commander.
The day ended with a rendition of military musical march The Beating of Retreat.
The central government in Bamako, which had been democratically elected, was overthrown in a military coup on March 22nd in the vain hope of preventing a northern takeover.
They agreed in Helsinki to convene interim political and military committees in March 2000, and to try to assemble the resources needed for a joint force of up to 60, 000 troops.
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In Bamako, a group of young artists got together after the military coup in March and formed the movement, Sofas de la Republique (Warriors of the Republic), in a tribute to the great warriors of the Mandingo Empire.
Another hearing for their case is expected at Ofer military court on 6 March but their lawyer says they have been told their detention will not be extended further.
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He said the final phase of military intervention would continue throughout March and be scaled down in April.
Mali plunged into chaos in March after a military ruler overthrew the president, shaking one of West Africa's most stable democracies.
The Muslim Brotherhood, Egypt's best organised opposition group, had already pulled out of the protest camp and denounced the march on the military HQ for, "causing chaos".
Iraq's prime minister, Nuri al-Maliki, a Shia, has repeatedly stressed that the military campaign he launched in March, backed by American and British forces, was not directed against any one faction, certainly not just the Mahdi militia.
Most lawmakers are horrified that the automatic spending cuts now scheduled for March would cut military spending by 9.4 percent and domestic spending by about 8 percent. (And note this so-called sequester would exempt Social Security and Medicaid as well as Medicare benefits from any cuts).
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Mali's crisis accelerated in March, when junior military officers staged a coup, ending 20 years of democracy.
In March 2012, junior Malian military officers mutinied, overthrowing the civilian government in Bamako.
The State Department confirmed U.S. military plans in Poland as early as March.
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Ecuador broke diplomatic relations with Colombia in March 2008 after a Colombian military attack against a FARC camp inside Ecuador.
Truman agreed to integrate the military, so Randolph called off the march.
Interim security and military committees will be set up in March.
While doves are aflutter with the notion that the military-industrial complex is on the march, nobody expects Japan to become a major weapons exporter anytime soon.
Spain has the Royal Spanish March, but when this military tune became the national melody in the late 18th Century, despite several attempts, it has never had officially accepted lyrics to sing with it.
Military officers led by Sanogo seized power on March 22, overthrowing President Amadou Toumani Toure.
In March 2005 the US's military credibility in the region was at a high point.
At least 3, 605 members of the U.S. military have died since the war began in March 2003.
His blueprint would replace automatic, across-the-board cuts - known as sequestration - to both military and domestic programmes that began on 1 March.
"In February 2003, General Shinseki honestly and correctly assessed our nation's military needs before the invasion of Iraq in March 2003, " the statement said.
"Gaddafi made a television statement late on 19 March 2011 in which he criticised military action and asked the security council and international community for an immediate stop to hostilities, " said Lord Strathclyde.
Chaos have rocked Mali since a military ruler overthrew the democratically-elected president in March.
Chaos have rocked Mali since a military ruler overthrew the democratically-elected president in March, shaking one of West Africa's most stable democracies.
The U.S. is not providing direct aid to the Malian military because the democratically elected government was overthrown last March in a coup.
While this might appear to mark a setback for Syria, it has made some important compensatory gains in its relations with the US, Europe and Saudi Arabia, and it is debatable whether Syria's security interests would necessarily have been served by a result enhancing the position of Hizbullah, the Iranian-backed Shia political and military movement that was the driving force of the March 8th opposition bloc.
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