In 2009, the American Anthropological Association's Commission on the Engagement of Anthropology with the US Security and Intelligence Communities released its final report concluding, in part, that, " When ethnographic investigation is determined by military missions, not subject to external review, where data collection occurs in the context of war, integrated into the goals of counterinsurgency, and in a potentially coercive environment – all characteristic factors of the HTS concept and its application – it can no longer be considered a legitimate professional exercise of anthropology.

* 2009 – The Burmese military junta and ethnic armies begin three days of violent clashes in the Kokang Special Region.

Nikolai Tsonev, defence minister under the 2005 – 2009 cabinet, undertook steps to provide the members of the military and their families with certain privileges in terms of healthcare and education, and to improve living conditions.

As of 2005, the budget was no more than $ 400 mln., while military spending for 2009 amounted to more than $ 1. 3 bln.

Furthermore, during the Xinjiang riots of July 2009, crossbows were used alongside modern military hardware to quell protestors.

__NOTOC__The current Political Constitution of the Republic of Chile, approved by Chilean voters in a controversial and tightly controlled plebiscite on September 11, 1980, under the military dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet, partially effective March 11, 1981, fully effective 11 March 1990 and amended considerably on August 17, 1989 ( via referendum ) and on September 22, 2005 ( legislatively ), and also in 1991, 1994, 1997, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2003, 2007, 2008, 2009 and 2010, replaced the earlier constitution of 1925.

In May 2009, when a committee of military law experts at the Palm Center, an anti-DADT research institute, concluded that the President could issue an Executive Order to suspend homosexual conduct discharges, Obama rejected that option and said he wanted Congress to change the law.

In October 2009, the Commission on Military Justice, known as the Cox Commission, repeated its 2001 recommendation that Article 125 of the Uniform Code of Military Justice, which bans sodomy, be repealed, noting that " most acts of consensual sodomy committed by consenting military personnel are not prosecuted, creating a perception that prosecution of this sexual behavior is arbitrary.

Israel, delivered in 2009 its unmanned aerial vehicles and Brazil, supplied additional military vehicles and Super Tucano combat-aircraft.

In 2009, the U. S. provided nominal $ 1. 3 billion to the Egyptian military ($ billion in ).

* Department of State, Academics see the military in decline, but retaining strong influence, 23 September 2009 ( US Embassy Cables, The Guardian, 2011 )

However, Eritrea condemned Israeli military action during the 2008 – 2009 Israel – Gaza conflict.

The arrangement expired in 2009 ; current president Rafael Correa vowed not to renew it, and since then the Ecuador has not had any foreign military facilities in the country.

" In August 2009, with Bainimarama still controlling the government as prime minister and the constitution abrogated, Epeli Nailatikau a former military commander was appointed acting president on the retirement of Iloilo.

* 2009 – Two Tamil Tigers aircraft packed with C4 explosives en-route to the national airforce headquarters are shot down by the Sri Lankan military before reaching their target, in a kamikaze style attack.

The World Fact Book also reports that the military service age and obligation is 18 – 25 years of age for selective compulsory military service ; 16 years of age or younger with parental consent, for voluntary service ( 2009 ).

On June 28, 2009, the military removed Zelaya from office and deported him to Costa Rica, a neutral country.

On 28 June 2009, in the context of a constitutional crisis, the military, acting on orders of the Supreme Court of Justice, arrested the president, Manuel Zelaya after which they forcibly removed elected President Zelaya from Honduras.

Following the 2009 ouster of the president, the Honduran military together with other government security forces were allegedly responsible for thousands of allegedly arbitrary detentions and for several forced disappearances and extrajudicial executions of opponents to the de facto government, including members of the Democratic Unification Party.

According to a statement in July 2009 by a legal counsel of the Honduras military, Colonel Herberth Bayardo Inestroza, the Honduran military was opposed to President Manuel Zelaya, whom the military had removed from Honduras a few days earlier, because of his left-wing politics.

King Juan Carlos I of Spain inspecting the troops in a military parade, 2009

On June 26, 2009, Jeff Immelt, the CEO of General Electric, called for the U. S. to increase its manufacturing base employment to 20 % of the workforce, commenting that the U. S. has outsourced too much in some areas and can no longer rely on the financial sector and consumer spending to drive demand.

Fat Albert performed its final JATO demonstration at the 2009 Pensacola Homecoming show, spending their 8 remaining JATO bottles.

After spending almost the entire 2009 / 2010 season in the top six of League One, Charlton were defeated in the Football League One play-offs semi-final second leg on penalties to Swindon Town, condemning Charlton to another season in the third tier of English Football.

Between 2006 and 2009, the government increased social spending, on social welfare, and education from 2. 6 % to 5. 2 % of its GDP.

In 2009, the spending budget was increased by 25 % and totaled $ 920 millions.

Led by Finance Minister Otto Graf Lambsdorff ( 1926 – 2009 ) the FDP adopted the market-oriented " Kiel Theses " in 1977 ; it rejected the Keynesian emphasis on consumer demand, and proposed to reduce social welfare spending, and try to introduce policies to stimulate production and facilitate jobs.

While the company performed strongly last year, registering a 17 % growth in client base ( to 7. 4m ) over the first three quarters of 2008, it began to falter as consumer spending slowed, resulting in a 1 % annual increase in turnover for Q2 2009.

* The Toledo Lucas County Public Library was 4-star rated for 2009 by the Library Journal, sixth among the biggest spending libraries in the United States.

A $ 2. 5 billion spending provision allowing NASA to fly the space shuttle beyond its then-scheduled retirement in 2010 passed the Congress in April 2009, although neither NASA nor the White House requested the one-year extension.

On June 26, 2009, Jeff Immelt, the CEO of General Electric, called for the United States to increase its manufacturing base employment to 20 % of the workforce, commenting that the U. S. has outsourced too much in some areas and can no longer rely on the financial sector and consumer spending to drive demand.

In October 2008, as Daley proposed cutting more than 1, 000 workers to plug a $ 469 million deficit in the 2009 budget, he was spending millions to promote the city's image and manage the message coming from City Hall.

On the first day of City Council hearings on Daley's 2009 budget proposal, several aldermen questioned why the administration was spending millions of dollars on public relations.

In September 2009, Tennessee's State Building Commission authorized spending of $ 40 million for purchase of the land.

In 2009, the National Retail Federation anticipated that American households would decrease Halloween spending by as much as 15 % to $ 56. 31.

Preliminary funds for this project were approved as part of a 2009 Federal spending bill signed into law by President Barack Obama.

In September 2009, Tennessee's State Building Commission authorized spending of $ 40 million for purchase of the land.

Cato scholars were critical of George W. Bush's Republican administration ( 2001 – 2009 ) on several issues, including the Iraq War, civil liberties, education, agriculture, energy policy, and excessive government spending.

The wealth of the new owners meant that in the summer of 2009, the club was able to finance the purchase of several experienced international players prior to the new season, spending more than any other club in the Premier League.

After the 2009 budget, the Sunday Times editorialised that Lamont's budget had been so badly received that he was out of his job within two months, " but it fixed the public finances and set up the prosperity of the 1990s and beyond " and Derek Scott, Tony Blair's economic adviser from 1997 to 2003, wrote that Lamont was " rightly praised " for putting in place the post-ERM framework, that stage of Lamont's career being " due for rerating since, in addition to designing a proper framework for monetary policy ( later consolidated by Bank of England independence in 1997 ), he also took most of the tough decisions on spending and tax to put the public finances on the road to recovery.

United for Peace and Justice held a march on Wall Street on April 4, 2009 against military spending in Iraq.

According to SIPRI, total world spending on military expenses in 2009 was $ 1. 531 trillion US dollars.

* Educational spending and imprisonment risk: The role of schools as prison gatekeepers with Richard Arum ( 2009 )

On June 26, 2009, Jeff Immelt, the CEO of General Electric, called for the United States to increase its manufacturing base employment to 20 % of the workforce commenting that the U. S. has outsourced too much and can no longer rely on consumer spending to drive demand.