In 1990-91, the Army had ten military regions and an estimated 73 + ' brigades ', each with a mean strength of 1, 000 and comprising infantry, tanks, APC, artillery, and AA units as required ( IISS Military Balance 1990 or 1991 ).

In July 1975, according to the IISS Military Balance, the FAZ was made up of 14 infantry battalions, seven " Guard " battalions, and seven other infantry battalions variously designated as " parachute " ( or possibly " commando "; probably the units of the new parachute brigade originally formed in 1968 ).

Equipment reportedly includes 30 T-34 tanks, 8 T-54 tanks ( IISS 2012 ), and PT-76 light tanks ( 15 reported in service by IISS Military Balance 2012 ).

Other reported wheeled vehicles in service include 100 EE-11 Urutu and Czechoslovak OT-64 SKOT .< ref > Middle East Military Balance, ( 2005 ), Military "< u >, Libya, Accessed April 24, 2007 </ ref >

According to the Military Balance published by the International Institute for Strategic Studies, the force was organized into one armored, one infantry, and one paratroop / commando brigade.

The IISS Military Balance 2009 listed an Army of 7, 350, Air Force of 400, and Navy of 50.

The military forces of Mauritania are listed by the IISS Military Balance 2007 as comprising 15, 870 personnel with an additional 5, 000 paramilitaries.

The SMF is organized as a ground infantry unit, with six rifle companies, two mobilisable paramilitary companies, and one engineer company, according to the IISS Military Balance 2007.

These equipment estimates are from the IISS Military Balance 2007.

In 2007 the IISS Military Balance said that the MOD planned to build new military bases around the country, including at Luiperdsvallei outside Windhoek, Osana near Okahandja, and Karibib.

The IISS Military Balance 2012 does not list any helicopters in army service.

The IISS Military Balance listed four zones in 2007.

The IISS Military Balance 2009 lists 31 mortars, Carl Gustav recoilless rifles, and seven air defence guns in service.

The Military Balance also said that El Geneina, Nyala and El Fasher have been used for Darfur operations, and that aircrew training had been reported at Dezful-Ardestani air base ( Dezful Airport?

That figure was unchanged in the 2011 edition of the Military Balance.

* Center for Strategic and International Studies, Middle East Military Balance

According to the International Institute of Strategic Studies ' Military Balance 2010, the latter includes an Army of 12, 500, a Navy of 500 and a 500-strong Air Force, while the CIA Factbook describes the People's Armed Forces as consisting of the Intervention Force, Aeronaval Force ( navy and air ) and the Development Force.

The IISS Military Balance 2007 estimates that the land forces include five divisions ( each with up to five brigades ), one armoured and one artillery brigade.

The IISS publishes The Military Balance, an annual assessment of nations ' military capabilities ; the Armed Conflict Database ; Survival, a journal on global politics and strategy ; Strategic Survey, the annual review of world affairs ; the Adelphi Papers series of monographs ; and Strategic Comments, online analysis of topical issues in international affairs.

Source: IISS Military Balance 1981-82, p. 25

The Jaffee Center's Middle East Military Balance 99-00 also lists the four Corps HQs the IISS also attributes.

The IISS reported in the Military Balance 2008 that there 12 Corps level regional headquarters, five armoured divisions with some independent brigades, seven infantry divisions with some independent brigades, one special forces brigade, two commando divisions with some independent brigades, plus an airborne brigade.

*: IISS Military Balance 2007 estimates Nigeria has 72 VBLs ( reported ).

* Conclave of Light of the Masonic & Military Order of the Red Cross of Constantine No. 498 was consecrated on the 23 April 2009, it currently meets on the second Tuesday in January, July & November

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.

* Stoker, Donald, " There Was No Offensive-Defensive Confederate Strategy ," Journal of Military History, 73 ( April 2009 ), 571 – 90.

* On October 15, 2009, the U. S. Military Academy at West Point awarded him with the distinguished Sylvanus Thayer Award.

Cox, T. Pankratz, Winning the Asymmetric War: Political, Social and Military Responses, Peter Lang, 2009, ISBN 978-3-631-57249-8

In 2009, Lieutenant James Adamson, aged 24, of the Royal Regiment of Scotland was awarded the Military Cross for a bayonet charge whilst on a tour of duty in Afghanistan: after shooting one Taliban fighter dead Adamson had run out of ammunition when another enemy appeared.

On March 10, 2009, active duty U. S. Army Military Police troops from Fort Rucker were deployed to Samson, Alabama in response to a murder spree.

Uckfield, UK: Naval & Military Press Ltd., 2009.

No NATO ( US Military Allies ) nor OECD Country ( US Industrialized Allies ) until 2009, disenfranchises Citizens of their respective National Capitals for national legislature elections.

It became the Spanish branch of EADS in 1999, and was absorbed by Airbus Military in 2009.

* US Military Doctrine since the Cold War accessed June 24, 2009

* Jacques Littlefield ( 1949 – 2009 ), President and Founder of the Military Vehicle Technology Foundation, one of the largest collections of historical military vehicles in the world.

The city is home to the Geronimo Springs Museum and the Hamilton Military Museum ( opened November 2009 ), which is part of Veterans Memorial Park.

* Military Technical Agreement, treaty ending the Kosovo War in June 2009

General Military History I, Palhoça: UnisulVirtual, 2009.

* UN Military Observer Group in India and Pakistan ( UNMOGIP ), 2009 – present

* Douglas Biggs, “’ A Voyage or Rather and Expedition to Portugal :’ Edmund of Langley in Iberia 1381 / 82 ,” Journal of Medieval Military History 7 ( 2009 ), pp. 57-74.

The Military budget of the United States for the 2009 fiscal year was $ 515. 4 billion.

* Mauritanian Military Junta ( 2008 – 2009 )

On December 1, 2009, preceding Obama's speech announcing a troop increase in Afghanistan, Matthews criticized the president for choosing the United States Military Academy as his venue, referring to it as " the enemy camp.

The Malaysian Kor Polis Tentera DiRaja | Royal Military Police Corps assisted the Malaysian policemen to providing security coverage at the Malaysian Houses of Parliament | Parliament Square in Kuala Lumpur during a Hari Merdeka | 52nd Independence Day parade in 2009.