Suvorov saw in these scimitar-wielding skirmishers not demographic units but military men of a high potential.

Parts of `` Defeat Into Victory '' are a tangle of Burmese place names and military units, but a little application makes everything clear enough.

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 ).

Johnston had various remaining military units scattered throughout his territory and retreating to the south to avoid being cut off.

Thus, by the end of 1992, Azerbaijan received arms and military hardware sufficient for approximately four motor rifle divisions with prescribed army units.

On April 27, 1978, the PDPA and military units loyal to the PDPA, killed Daoud Khan, his immediate family and bodyguards in a violent coup, and seized control of the capital Kabul.

Though rarely used by modern conventional military units, abatises are still officially maintained in United States Army and Marine Corps training.

Tactical bombing, aimed at enemy military units and installations, is typically assigned to smaller aircraft operating at shorter ranges, typically along the troops on the ground or sea.

The Brazilian government has announced that a Helibras factory in the city of Itajubá, Minas Gerais, will initially produce 50 units of the EC 725 and up to 150 new helicopters for the Brazilian military.

Today it includes military units for army salute and wind orchestra duties.

The name is also applied to several military units employed by the Romans that were originally raised among the Batavi.

The US military has specialized units, which can respond to a bioterrorism event ; among them are the US Marine Corp's Chemical Biological Incident Response Force and the U. S. Army's 20th Support Command ( CBRNE ), which can detect, identify, and neutralize threats, and decontaminate victims exposed to bioterror agents.

* Bands ( Italian Army irregulars ), military units once in the service of the Italian Regio Esercito

After Allied military units entered Cambodia, the Japanese military forces present in the country were disarmed and repatriated.

Currently the organization dates from 2001 with a distribution in several types of units: combat units, response units ( unités d ' intervention ), unités de soutien et d ' appui et finally special reserve units as part of 3 joint military régions ( interarmees ) and the 10 military land sectors.

By the end of 1918-1919, some units had been created: secretly operative, investigatory, of transportation, military ( special ), operative, and instructional.

In late November, the Second All-Russian Conference of the Extraordinary Commissions accepted a decision after the report of I. N. Polukarov to establish at all frontlines and army sections of the Cheka and granted them the right to appoint their commissioners in military units.

But I suspect that the old Roman was referring to change made under military occupation -- the sort of change which Tacitus was talking about when he said, `` They make a desert, and call it peace '' ( `` Solitudinem faciunt, pacem appellant ''.

The networks for military communications are one of the best examples of networks which not only must be changed with the changes in objectives but also must be changed with the addition of new machines of war.

Second, our military missile program, going forward so successfully, does not suffer from our present lack of very large rocket engines, which are necessary in distant space exploration.

The three volumes brought to the fore a characteristic of Trevelyan's prose which remained conspicuous through his later works -- a genius for describing military action with clarity and with authority.

it was Baker who thought of lessening the shock, which conscription always brings to a country, by substituting `` Greetings from your neighbors '' for the recruiting sergeant, and registration in familiar voting places rather than at military installations.

It cannot become the source of a real Atlantic community if it remains organized to deal only with the military threat which first brought it into being ''.

The military in Taiwan believe that the Communists have made two mistakes, which, together, may prove fatal.

Research and development activities undertaken by the Secretary shall be coordinated or conducted jointly with the Department of Defense to the end that developments under this Act which are primarily of a civil nature will contribute to the defense of the Nation and that developments which are primarily of a military nature will, to the greatest practicable extent compatible with military and security requirements, be available to advance the purposes of this Act and to strengthen the civil economy of the Nation.

In fact, one of the major reasons for the failure of the ill-starred expedition appears to have been a lack of full information on the extent to which Cuba has been getting this Russian military equipment.

The problem in the policy officer's mind thus begins to take shape as a galaxy of utterly complicated factors -- political, military, economic, financial, legal, legislative, procedural, administrative -- to be sorted out and handled within a political system which moves by consent in relation to an external environment which cannot be under control.

If it is decided to make a small shift which may be required from military aid or special assistance funds, in order to carry out the purposes of the Mutual Security Act through this new peaceful program, this will be a hopeful sign to the world.

Our military forces must be capable of contending successfully with any contingency which may be forced upon us, from limited emergencies to all-out nuclear general war.

The decreases, which are largely in construction and in aircraft procurement, are offset in part by increases for research and development and for procurement of other military equipment such as tanks, vehicles, guns, and electronic devices.

The Department of Defense appropriation acts for the past several years have contained a rider which limits competitive bidding by firms in other countries on certain military supply items.

1960 witnessed another substantial increase in our industry's shipments of military electronics, which totalled about $5.4 billion compared to $4.9 billion in 1959.

It is interesting to note that the present level of military electronics procurement is greater than the industry's total sales to all markets in 1950-1953, which were good years for our industry with television enjoying its initial period of rapid consumer acceptance.

It has been correctly pointed out by well-informed people in the industry that it is probably unrealistic to expect a continuation of the yearly growth of 15% or better that characterized the decade of the 1950's, and that our military markets may be entering upon a new phase in which procurement of multiple weapons systems will give way to concentration of still undeveloped areas of our defense capability.

While this may well be true in general, I believe it is also important to keep in mind that some recent developments suggest that over the next year or so military electronics may be one of the most strongly growing areas in an economy which is not expanding rapidly in other directions.

They could be used to attack a nation's people ( which would inevitably mean the loss of the attacker's own people ), or they could be used with discrimination to destroy the enemy's military force.

If we stop thinking in terms of tremendous multimegaton nuclear weapons and consider employing much smaller nuclear weapons which may be more appropriate for most important military targets, it would seem that the B-52 or B-70 could carry a great many small nuclear weapons.

This reflects the very heavy engineering content of the products -- which are not military.

The strip has also met controversy over every military conflict it has dealt with, including Vietnam, Grenada, Panama and both Gulf Wars.

The code of chivalry dealt with three main areas: the military, social life, and religion.

One of the lectures was entitled " The Fragility of Freedom ," and according to Friedman, " dealt with precisely the threat to freedom from a centralized military government.

This ended major military activity in Poland itself, although it continued to be occupied by foreign troops as Augustus dealt with partisan supporters of Stanisław.

At the insistence of Johnston and of Confederate President Jefferson Davis, Sherman conditionally agreed to generous terms that dealt with both political and military issues.

Gongmin had various problems that needed to be dealt with, including the removal of pro-Mongol aristocrats and military officials, the question of land holding, and quelling the growing animosity between the Buddhists and Confucian scholars.

Kitchener quite possibly prevented war between France and Britain when he dealt firmly but non-violently with the French military expedition, under Captain Marchand, intending to claim Fashoda, in what became known as the Fashoda Incident.

The military quality of the Welsh border Royalists was well proved, that of the Gloucestershire Presbyterians not less so, and, in basing himself on Gloucester and Worcester as his father had done on Oxford, Charles II hoped, naturally, to deal with the Independent faction minority of the English people more effectually than Charles I had earlier dealt with the majority of the people of England who had supported the Parliamentary cause.

This directive, Equal Opportunity in the Armed Forces, dealt directly with the issue of racial and gender discrimination in areas surrounding military communities.

It dealt with Washington's concern over communism's domino effect, it enabled a media-sensitive presentation of the doctrine that won bipartisan support, and it mobilized American economic power to modernize and stabilize unstable regions without direct military intervention.

In its purest form, strategy dealt solely with military issues.

In 1520 Niccolò Machiavelli's Dell ' arte della guerra ( Art of War ) dealt with the relationship between civil and military matters and the formation of the grand strategy.

This probably dealt a fatal blow to any chance of permanent peace between Rome and Carthage and is one of the causes of the Second Punic War and held as the motivation of the subsequent military and political activities of Hamilcar.

Under the 1629 Peace of La Rochelle, the brevets of the Edict ( sections of the treaty which dealt with the military and pastoral clauses and which were renewable by letters patent ) were entirely withdrawn, though Protestants retained their prewar religious freedoms.

Memoirs tended to be written by politicians or people in court society, later joined by military leaders and businessmen, and often dealt exclusively with the writer's careers rather than their private life.

One of Wilson's most secret duties was as the British military representative on the Combined Policy Committee which dealt with the development, production and testing of the atom bomb.

In 368 Flavius Theodosius was first raised to the Roman military rank of comes ( akin to a general ), and he was sent to the province of Britannia, to repel an invasion by various barbarian tribes, which he dealt with successfully.

The Western Roman Empire was dealt fatal blows by a set of military coups d ' état in the Italian Peninsula in 475 and 476.

The plan dealt with all aspects of a war against al-Qaeda, ranging from diplomatic initiatives to military operations in Afghanistan, including outlines to persuade Afghanistan's Taliban government to turn bin Laden over to the United States, with provisions to use military force if it refused.

The State Department memo, dated August 25, 1976, was declassified on October 8, 1999, together with 1, 100 other documents released by various US agencies which dealt primarily with the years leading up to the military coup.

Murrow produced a number of episodes of the show that dealt with the Communist witch-hunt hysteria ( one of the more notable episodes resulted in a U. S. military officer, Milo Radulovich, being acquitted, after being charged with supporting Communism ), before embarking on a broadcast on March 9, 1954 that has been referred to as television's finest hour.

Eventually Asquith's government ordered a halt to the executions and insisted that those not already executed be dealt with through civilian, not military, law.

Whereas the politicians dealt eminently with civilian matters, military issues were attended to exclusively by the generals.