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military and strength
At the scene he has just as clearly shown his military strength in unprovocative but ready position.
President Kennedy's latest warning to the Communist world that the United States will build up its military strength to meet any challenge in Berlin or elsewhere was, somewhat surprisingly, reported in full text or fairly accurate excerpts behind the Iron Curtain.
Forces and military personnel strength.
The task of providing a reasonable level of military strength, without endangering other vital aspects of our security, is greatly complicated by the swift pace of scientific progress.
You may have misgivings about certain aspects of our military establishment -- I certainly do -- but you know any comparison of over-all American strength with over-all Soviet strength finds the United States not only superior, but so superior both in present weapons and in the development of new ones that our advantage promises to be a permanent feature of U.S.-Soviet relations for the foreseeable future.
Taking precedence over all other legislation on Capitol Hill last week was the military strength of the nation.
One item in this unhappy scheme was to have Germany policed exclusively by its continental neighbors, among whom only the Soviet Union possessed real military strength.
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 ).
Alp Arslan's strength lay in the military realm.
In Sparta, Ares was viewed as a masculine soldier in which his resilience, physical strength and military intelligence was unrivaled.
Though Kropp initially plans to commit suicide if he requires an amputation, the book suggests he postponed suicide because of the strength of military camaraderie.
In 1962 the total strength of the armed forces was about 6, 500, about 4, 000 being conscripts doing their military service.
Given the military strength of the Great Powers, these interventions were nearly always decisive and quickly ended the civil wars.
Factors such as population size, historical events, military strength, diplomatic expertise and a strategic geographical position give Egypt extensive political influence in the Middle East, Africa, and within the Non-Aligned Movement as a whole.
The U. S. reserves the right to limit the signal strength or precision of GPS, or to shut down public GPS access completely, so that only the U. S. military and its allies would be able to use it in time of conflict.
The military now is far below its authorized strength, and further reductions are expected.
Although his coins showed military images almost as often as peaceful ones, Hadrian's policy was peace through strength, even threat.
However, he underestimated the political and military strength of the capetanei ( καπεταναίοι – commanders ) who had led the revolt against Ottoman Empire in 1821, and who had expected a leadership role in the post-revolution Government.
Following the end of the Israeli occupation of Lebanon in 2000, its military strength grew significantly.
Since then both Israel and Hezbollah have asserted that the organization has gained in military strength.
" Any weakening of the spiritual and military defensive strength of our continent in its struggle with eastern Bolshevism brings with it the danger of a rapidly nearing decline in its will to resist ... Our soldiers in the East will do their part.
The reverse depicts an armed Roman soldier bearing a military standard in one hand and subduing a captive with the other, a reference to the military strength of the Roman Empire, and spells out VIRTVS EXERCITVS ROMANORVM, " the bravery / virtue of the Roman army ".
The movement gained strength and support in the northeastern jungles and established firm footing when Cambodia's leader Prince Sihanouk was removed from office during a military coup in 1970.

military and communists
The Soviet military commander in Sofia assumed supreme authority, and the communists whom he instructed, including Kimon Georgiev ( who was not a communist himself, but a member of the elitarian political organization " Zveno ", working together with the communists ), took full control of domestic politics in the People's Republic of Bulgaria.
The British military mission urged the remnants of the nationalists not to oppose the communists ' advance, and the Allies evacuated Kupi to Italy.
The NLF's strong links with Yugoslavia's communists, who also enjoyed British military and diplomatic support, guaranteed that Belgrade would play a key role in Albania's postwar order.
The Soviet military commander in Sofia assumed supreme authority, and the communists whom he instructed, including Kimon Georgiev, took full control of domestic politics.
After the second attempt, the military in power exterminated in reprisals several thousand communists and agrarians including representatives of the intelligentsia. Boris III of Bulgaria and Prime-minister Kimon Georgiev during the opening session of the IV International Congress of Byzantine Studies ( Sofia, 09.
Although the communists were severely depleted by the heavy fighting at Khe Sanh when their conventional assaults were battered by American firepower, as well as tens of thousands of deaths in the Tet Offensive, American political opinion and the panic engendered by the communist surprise sapped US support for the war, even though the events of early 1968 put the US and South Vietnam into a much stronger military position.
The Soviet military commander in Sofia assumed supreme authority, and the communists and their allies in the Fatherland Front whom he instructed, including Kimon Georgiev, took full control of domestic politics .. An armed resistance guerilla movement, known as the Goryani Movement, began immediately after Soviet occupation in 1944 and lasted until the late 1950s.
Following the assassination of Philippine opposition leader Benigno Aquino, Jr. in 1983 many within the Reagan administration including the President himself began to fear that the Philippines could fall to the communists and the U. S. military would lose its strongholds at Clark Air Force Base and Subic Bay Naval Station.
They were deployed during the political and economical changes in Russia in the 1990s ; In August 1991 communists and allied military commanders tried to overthrow Mikhail Gorbachev and regain control over the unstable Soviet Union.
Despite these appearances of unchallenged control, Sukarno's guided democracy stood on fragile grounds due to the inherent conflict between its two underlying support pillars, the military and the communists.
Elements of the military disagreed with Sukarno's policy of confrontation with Malaysia, which in their view only benefited communists, and sent several officers ( including future Armed Forces Chief Leonardus Benjamin Moerdani ) to spread secret peace-feelers to the Malaysian government.
Tensions between the military and communists increased on April 1965, when PKI chairman Aidit called for the formation of a " fifth armed force " consisting of armed peasants and labor.
Sukarno's fragile balance of power between the military, political Islam, communists, and nationalists that underlay his " Guided Democracy " was now collapsing.
Sukarno's fragile balance of power between the military, political Islam, communists, and nationalists that underlay his " Guided Democracy " was collapsing.
Although the offensive was a military defeat for the communists, it had a profound effect on the US government and shocked the US public, which had been led to believe by its political and military leaders that the communists were, due to previous defeats, incapable of launching such a massive effort.
Although Westmoreland's appraisal of the military situation was correct, he made himself look foolish by continuously maintaining his belief that Khe Sanh was the real objective of the communists and that 155 attacks by 84, 000 troops was a diversion ( a position he maintained until at least 12 February ).
Qasim ’ s growing ties with the communists served to provoke rebellion in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul by Arab nationalists in charge of military units.
On that day, they had an open ceremony for the new country, and Mao Zedong and other communists attended the military parade.
However, after the third counter encirclement campaign, Mao was removed from the leadership and replaced by the Chinese communists returning from the Soviet Union such as Wang Ming, and the command of the Chinese Red Army was handled by a three man committee that included Wang Ming's associates Otto Braun ( Li De ), the Comintern military advisor, Bo Gu, and Zhou Enlai.

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