The Armed Forces of the Philippines has been a participant in various regional conflicts, including the Korean War and the Vietnam War.

The Royal Thai Armed Forces was involved in many conflicts throughout its history, including global, regional and internal conflicts.

Armed conflicts nevertheless continued, in particular with certain dissatisfied Marcher Lords, such as the earl of Gloucester, Roger Mortimer and Humphrey de Bohun, Earl of Hereford.

This would keep the Armed Forces out of internal conflicts but would invariably reduce their claim to the rapidly shrinking budget.

After the three year main conflicts, when the Zamboangueño guerrillas was retreating by the Japanese in the main province before the liberation of local Filipino troops of the Philippine Commonwealth Army and Philippine Constabulary units on 1944 and the American troops on the U. S. Armed Forces on 1945 before the Battle of Zamboanga.

Armed conflicts between Kaunas and Central Lithuania continued for a few weeks, but neither side could gain a significant advantage.

The conflicts and insurgencies on 1944 was aftermath, many guerrillas and Hukbalahap resistance was downfall retreating Japanese Imperial Armed Forces and starts the liberation on 1945 was battle of Filipino soldiers and guerrilla groups with the Japanese Imperial forces.

Armed conflicts currently continue in some forty countries around the world.

Today, the Haig Fund continues to support veterans from all conflicts and other military actions involving British Armed Forces up to today.

Armed conflicts, epidemics, famine, natural disasters and other major emergencies may all involve or lead to a humanitarian crisis.

Oxygen concentrators have also been used by the Armed Forces of the United States in the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan as part of the equipment used by medical and surgical units in the field.

Armed Forces Day is the annual report on this investment, a public presentation designed to give our own people, and the people of other lands who stand with us for peace with freedom and justice, the best possible opportunity to see and understand what we have and why we have it.

It is the purpose of Armed Forces Day to give Americans an opportunity to honor men of the Armed Forces, those who have made the supreme sacrifice, those who remain to preserve our security.

Overall, the Armed Forces have to defend 8. 5 million km < sup > 2 </ sup > ( around 3. 2 million sq.

Since 1648 the Brazilian Armed Forces have been relied upon to fight in defense of Brazilian sovereignty and to suppress civil rebellions.

During the years of 1995 / 96 the EMFA, responsible for the studies on the Ministry of Defense, evidenced that, amongst 179 countries, only 23 did not have integrated Armed Forces.

At the time of the Executive Order, for example, the U. S. was not a belligerent in Vietnam, so U. S. advisers serving with the Republic of Vietnam Armed Forces would not have been eligible for the award.

In recent years and after several major reequipment programs, the Chilean Armed Forces have become one of the most technologically advanced and professional armed forces of South America.

Since 1990, the ACR and the Czech Armed Forces have contributed to numerous peacekeeping and humanitarian operations, including IFOR, SFOR, and EUFOR Althea in Bosnia, Desert Shield / Desert Storm, Afghanistan, Kosovo, Albania, Turkey, Pakistan and with the Coalition forces in Iraq.

Malaysian Armed Forces have two identical oval tags with this information:

Armed with a shotgun, Ash finds Cheryl hiding outside and shoots her in the shoulder, but it doesn't seem to have any effect.

The Ecuadorian Armed Forces ( Fuerzas Armadas del Ecuador ) are part of the public forces and have the stated mission of the preservation of the integrity and national sovereignty of the national territory.

Schmitt is also the only geologist as well as the only person to have walked on the Moon who was never a member of the United States Armed Forces, although he is not the first civilian, since Neil Armstrong left military service prior to his landing in 1969.

Since the end of the war, the Lebanese have conducted several elections, most of the militias have been weakened or disbanded, and the Lebanese Armed Forces ( LAF ) have extended central government authority over about two-thirds of the country.

Nigerian officers have served as chiefs of defence in other countries, with Brigadier General Maxwell Khobe serving as Sierra Leone chief of staff in 1998 – 1999, and Nigerian officers acting as Command Officer-in-Charge of the Armed Forces of Liberia from at least 2007.

Pakistan Armed Forces have participated in several United Nations peacekeeping operations.

The Pakistan Armed Forces have also taken over the Pakistani government several times since independence mainly on the pretext of lack of good civilian leadership, whom most Pakistanis regard as corrupt and inefficient.

Since 1917, Puerto Ricans have been included in the compulsory draft whenever it has been in effect and more than 400, 000 Puerto Ricans have served in the United States Armed Forces.

Specific examples of services which warrant the Purple Heart include any action against an enemy of the United States ; any action with an opposing armed force of a foreign country in which the Armed Forces of the United States are or have been engaged ; while serving with friendly foreign forces engaged in an armed conflict against an opposing armed force in which the United States is not a belligerent party ; as a result of an act of any such enemy of opposing armed forces ; or as the result of an act of any hostile foreign force.

The Armed Forces have four main tasks:

São Tomé and Príncipe's army is a tiny force with almost no resources at its disposal and would be wholly ineffective operating unilaterally ; infantry equipment is considered simple to operate and maintain but may require refurbishment or replacement after 25 years in tropical climates ; poor pay, working conditions, and alleged nepotism in the promotion of officers have been problems in the past, as reflected in the 1995 and 2003 coups ; these issues are being addressed with foreign assistance aimed at improving the army and its focus on realistic security concerns ; command is exercised from the president, through the Minister of Defense, to the Chief of the Armed Forces staff ( 2005 )

The National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1998 ( Public Law 105-85 ) changed the criteria to delete authorization for award of the Purple Heart to any civilian national of the United States while serving under competent authority in any capacity with the Armed Forces.

Compulsory National Service was made more selective in 1957 with greater stress on skills rather than numbers with the system completely ending in 1959 ; however, it had effectively caused the demise of the old CMF due to the shifts in manpower that the scheme had caused and the changed administrative conditions under which the old CMF ( and some other branches of the Armed Forces ) had previously operated.

Throughout the history of the People's Republic of China, the position that effectively reigned as the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces changed from time to time.

The majority of the Armed Forces had already changed sides.

The RVSN was first formed in the Soviet Armed Forces, and when the USSR collapsed in 1990 – 1991, it effectively changed its name from the Soviet to the Russian Strategic Rocket Forces.

* 9 August-The security status of four districts of Jammu is changed, so that now all six districts of Jammu as well as all six districts of the Kashmir valley are designated " disturbed areas ", leaving Ladakh as the only part of Jammu and Kashmir not covered by the Armed Forces ( Special Powers ) Act of 1990.

The armed forces command structure was changed by Hitler in 1938, with an Armed Forces HQ ( the Oberkommando der Wehrmacht, usually contracted to OKW, placed over the army command Oberkommando des Heeres or OKH, and the other service commands and almost entirely displacing the Reich War Ministry.

Armed with knowledge of the future, he would then try to prevent tragedies described in " tomorrow's " Sun-Times from occurring, whereby story text and headlines in the newspaper changed to reflect the outcome of his actions.

After January 1990 the name of the armed forces was changed to ' Armed Forces of the Republic of Poland ,' to accord with the Polish State's new official name.

Over the course of his tenure as Defence Minister, he changed his mind over whether the Armed Forces should be restructured to Russia's new circumstances, or whether Russia should continue, in the Soviet style, to place the military above social and economic needs.

Two years after the 1968 unification of the Canadian Armed Forces, and the formation of Canadian Forces Communication Command, the name was changed to 746 ( Calgary ) Communication Squadron.

As the Cold War came to an end, the role of the United States Armed Forces changed.

After January 1990 the name of the armed forces was changed to ' Armed Forces of the Republic of Poland ,' to accord with the Polish State's new official name.