This year, moreover, growing numbers of nuclear powered submarines will enter our active forces, some to be armed with Polaris missiles.

The armed forces of Taiwan are at a working strength of about 450,000, though a reserve potential twice that high is contemplated.

Petitioner, who claims to be a conscientious objector, was convicted of violating 12a of the Universal Military Training and Service Act by refusing to be inducted into the armed forces.

Winston Churchill's Olympian, optimistic and resolute sayings when Britain stood alone against the armed forces of tyranny less than twenty years ago ; ;

Since the magnitude of the plan made secrecy impossible, once the wheels had began to turn, persons controlling German industries, social institutions, and armed forces became, through their anti-Semitism or their tolerance of it, conscious accomplices of Hitler's crimes ; ;

About 16,000 military members of all branches of the armed forces will take part in the parade.

With the money all but in hand, however, the Administration indicated that, instead of the 225,000 more men in uniform that President Kennedy had requested, the armed forces would be increased by only 160,000.

Many served in the armed forces, while others worked in intelligence ( for example, Office of Strategic Services and the Office of War Information ).

An the other hand, the armed forces of the MPLA ( now the official armed forces of the Angolan state ) and of UNITA fought each other until the leader of UNITA, Jonas Savimbi, was killed in action, in 2002.

The Azeri armed forces took a series of devastating defeats by Armenian forces during the 1992 – 1994 Nagorno-Karabakh War, which resulted in the loss of control of Nagorno-Karabakh proper and seven surrounding rayons, comprising roughly 16 % of the territory of Azerbaijan.

During the war, the Azeri armed forces were also aided by Turkish military advisers, and Russian, Ukrainian, Chechen and Afghan mercenaries.

When Helen, the wife of Menelaus, was abducted by Paris of Troy, Agamemnon commanded the united Greek armed forces in the ensuing Trojan War.

* 2002 – Israeli forces surround the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem into which armed Palestinians had retreated.

The members were given a choice of either offering armed forces or paying a tax to the joint treasury ; most states chose the tax.

If the hijackers ' demands are deemed too great and the perpetrators show no inclination to surrender, authorities sometimes employ armed special forces to attempt a rescue of the hostages ( notably Operation Entebbe ).

While Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, an Islamist extremist enjoying the backing of neighboring Pakistan, pushed for continued violent struggle against the Afghan government, Massoud and Rabbani advocated for a peaceful political campaign lobbying officials working for the government and armed forces.

* Active duty, a status of full duty or service, usually referencing full service in the armed forces

* 1894 – Norway formally adopts the Krag-Jørgensen rifle as the main arm of its armed forces, a weapon that would remain in service for almost 50 years.

He developed a reputation as a military commander during wars with Russia and the Ottoman Empire, as an early modernizer of Persia's armed forces and institutions, and for his death before his father, Fath Ali Shah.

In 1944, the American armed forces constructed a small and short-lived air base on the island of Santa Maria.

Ansbach hosts several units of the U. S. armed forces, associated with German units under NATO.

When Tennessee seceded, though the vote did not win a majority in East Tennessee, Johnson was forced to flee from the state with armed security ; he was in fact the only Senator from the seceded states to continue participation in Congress.

As response to this operation, the Awami League announced the declaration of independence of East Pakistan on March 26, 1971 and began an armed struggle against the Pakistan, with India staunchly supporting Awami League by the means of providing arm ammunition to its guerrilla forces.

During the time of conflict, Soviet Union sympathized with the East Pakistan and entered in the conflict when the Soviet Armed Forces ordered the Soviet Navy dispatched two groups of cruisers and destroyers and a nuclear submarine armed with nuclear missiles from Vladivostok.

However, despite these laws, East Timor has many problems with illegally armed militias, including widespread violence in 2006 which resulted in over 100, 000 people being forced from their homes, as well as two separate assassination attempts on the Prime Minister and President in early 2008.

Early in this war, armed forces under the French East India Company captured the British base of Calcutta in north-eastern India.

Over a period of months the wall was rebuilt using concrete, and buildings were demolished to create a " death zone " in view of East German guards armed with machine guns.

The Libyan Air Force was created after the US and UK pressured then-ruling King Idris to modernise his armed forces so that they could better stand off against revolutionary regimes in the Middle East.

The Polish armed forces in the East consisted mostly of lightly armed border guard units of the Korpus Ochrony Pogranicza ( KOP ), the ' border protection corps '.

The articles identified by Arafat as nullified call for Palestinian unity in armed struggle, deny the legitimacy of the establishment of Israel, deny the existence of a Jewish people with a historical or religious connection to Palestine, and label Zionism a racist, imperialist, fanatic, fascist, aggressive, colonialist political movement that must be eliminated from the Middle East for the sake of world peace.

In 1988, however, the PLO officially endorsed a two-state solution, contingent on terms such as making East Jerusalem capital of the Palestinian state and giving Palestinians the right of return to land occupied by Palestinians prior to 1948, as well as the right to continue armed struggle until the end of " The Zionist Entity.

Finding that the cape was not the ideal harbour they originally envisaged, the Dutch East India Company launched an armed invasion of St Helena from the Cape colony over Christmas 1672.

Resolution 242, which became the basis for the peace process negotiations begun in Madrid, calls for a just and lasting Middle East peace to include withdrawal of Israeli armed forces from territories occupied in 1967 ; termination of the state of belligerency ; and acknowledgment of the sovereignty, territorial integrity, and political independence of all regional states and of their right to live in peace within secure and recognized boundaries.

Korean steel and iron production were considered one of the best in East Asia, with Korean warriors often being armed with the highest quality armor and weapons.

Additional armed conflict occurred in the Middle East, including between Israel and Hezbollah, then with Israel and the Hamas.

* August 4 – The Armed Occupation Act is signed, providing for the armed occupation and settlement of the unsettled part of the Peninsula of East Florida.

* Septimius Severus forms new naval units, manning all the triremes in Italy with heavily armed troops for war in the East.

With the fall of the Iron Curtain, the demise of the notion of a Pax Sovietica, and the end of the Cold War, the U. S. maintained significant contingents of armed forces in Europe and East Asia.

In 1619, an armed expedition composed of three ships ( 275 crew, 106 cannon ) and called the " Fleet of Montmorency " under General Augustin de Beaulieu was sent from Honfleur, with the objective of fighting the Dutch in the Far East.

On January 25, 200 armed Square Dealers took over the courthouse of East Baton Rouge Parish.

* Enterprise, was a British East India Company's armed paddle steamer that served alongside the Fleet in the First China War from 1839 to 1840 and the Second Burmese War in 1852.

After two changes of Prime Minister, the establishment of a rival Communist-led government in occupied Greece and a pro-EAM mutiny among the armed forces in the Middle East, it was agreed in the May 1944 Lebanon conference that the fate of the monarchy would be decided in a national referendum.

The Catholic Church in Australia urged the Australian Government to send an armed peacekeeping force to East Timor to end the violence.

East Indiamen of various European countries were heavily armed for their long journeys to the Far East.