The police enjoy the benefit of being the most powerful armed force on the streets.
The Bush administration, as well as European governments, is accused of offering insufficient support to the ISAF. (No Americans serve in the lightly armed force, because America feared that its men would be sitting ducks.) Moreover, America's own forces collaborate with some local warlords, much as they relied on the rather vicious Northern Alliance to help defeat the Taliban.
The success of the all-volunteer force in replacing the draft with a superb fighting force has transformed the armed services into a cohort of highly skilled warriors about whom the general population knows little, and to whom it is not as tied as has historically been the case.
Mark Welsh, the Air Force's chief of staff, told the Senate Armed Services Committee that he and Air Force Secretary Michael Donley were "appalled" by the charges against Krusinski.
In Global Times, Zhang Liangui, a North Korea expert at the Communist Party's Central Party School, foresees a "70- 80% likelihood of war breaking out on the Korean Peninsula", and believes that North Korea's aim is reunification with the South by armed force.
The MoD's armed police force guard all defence locations in the UK and abroad.
These American patriots -- all the services that are represented up here today, all of you who are out there today -- you're the reason why America and our Armed Forces remain the greatest force for peace and security that the world has ever known.
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The lightly-armed cruiser sank after taking the full force of a surprise German attack on 5 November, 1940.
The issue in Yugoslavia is the illegitimate use of armed force for political ends.
When, as part of the implementation of the Oslo peace process with the PLO, the government of Israel allowed for an Arab armed force to be deployed on the outskirts of the city, fear returned to Jerusalem.
And for that to happen, Washington will have to take the lead....Washington, which has not yet addressed the harsh new reality, needs to take a stand....The issue in Yugoslavia is the illegitimate use of armed force for political ends.
While the proposed use of drones is for surveillance purposes only, the Security Council resolution authorizing UN operations in the DRC could allow for the drones to be armed and would authorize the use of force if necessary to protect individuals from an imminent threat of violence.
He observed that, while the idea of deploying an armed U.S. force on the Golan Heights as part of an overall peace settlement between Syria and Israel is under active consideration in Washington, Jerusalem and Damascus, there has been little public analysis or discussion of the merits or purposes of such a deployment.
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The city is powerless, suggests Mr Atrianfar, to force the conservative-run armed forces and the state broadcaster to pay the millions of dollars of back taxes they owe.
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Given Obama's weakness, it is hard to see how he can convince the Israeli public that he will be capable of protecting the country from a nuclear-armed Iran or that he can force the Palestinians and the Syrians to end their support of terror in the event of an Israeli withdrawal from Judea and Samaria or the Golan Heights.
The government commands a combined armed force estimated to be nearly 400, 000-strong.
Houses of suspected troublemakers are broken into, valuables often pocketed by the Baluchi mercenaries who make up the bulk of this lightly armed force.
Ta Kung Pao says "friendship with North Korea cannot become a burden for China", but urges China to make clear its opposition to armed force against the country.
In light of the Obama administration's refusal to use US military force for even the most minor missions - like evacuating US citizens from Libya - without UN approval, it is apparent that the US will not use armed force against Iran for as long as Obama is in power.
Shahadeh, the pro-government lawmaker, told CNN Arabic that the information available to lawmakers, based on intelligence reports, indicates "that the Syrian military air force only strike the locations of the terrorist armed groups, " the term the government uses for rebel forces.
In Britain ethnic minorities make up 6% of the population but only 2% of the police force and a little over 1% of the armed forces.
Under it, any political or military leader would be guilty of the crime of aggression if he exercises control or direction over any use of armed force that represents a manifest violation of the United Nations Charter.
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The presence of a 400, 000-strong occupational force has turned the state into an armed camp.
And as NPR's Tom Bowman reports, they're the driving force behind a new armed group.
Hoover insists that the country needs an armed national police force and modern forensic methods a fingerprint bank, up-to-date labs, and the like.
It does, however, require an armed force to assess the proportionality of its actions, by measuring their anticipated military advantage against the likelihood of civilian harm.
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Meanwhile, the Oviedists who now run the armed forces have begun a court martial of the former air-force chief who foiled their hero's attempted coup in 1996.
Sweden, Greece, Switzerland, Spain, Italy and France are working on a joint project through state-owned aeronautical companies and are in the final stages of developing an advanced armed drone prototype called the Dassault nEURon, from which the France plans to derive armed drones for its air force.
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