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 need for monitoring became greater when radio was adopted for military signaling.

and the author, who seemed the embodiment of France's rising spirit of resistance to her conquerors, was much complimented for his daring military action.

Actually the Atlanta campaign was a military failure.

Within the narrow frame of military tactics, too, the experts agree that the campaign was brilliant.

In seventeen weeks the military front was driven southward more than 100 miles.

As always, the ranks worked out new and better tactics, but there was brilliance in the way the field commands adopted these methods and in the way the army commanders incorporated them into their military thinking.

The fossilized, formalized, precedent-based thinking of the legendary military brain was not evident in Sherman's armies.

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.

His assignment was not a new one because Baker had sent him to the Mexican border in 1916 to investigate lurid newspaper stories about lack of discipline, drunkenness, and venereal disease in American military camps.

On the basis of the long chronicle of military history Funston and his brethren assumed that the issue was insoluble and that anyone interested in a mission like Fosdick's was an impractical idealist or a do-gooder.

The problem involved military necessity as much as morality, for in pre-penicillin days venereal disease was a crippling disability.

The result was that the rate of venereal disease in the American Army was the lowest in our military history.

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.

`` President Kennedy's enlargement of the American military program was welcomed on Wall Street as a stimulus to the American munitions industry.

The United States was engaged in a military attack on a peaceful, orderly people governed by a regime that had proved itself the most pro-Western and anti-Communist within any of the new nations -- the only place in Africa, moreover, where a productive relationship between whites and blacks had apparently been achieved.

Cuban S.S.R.: Whatever may have been the setbacks resulting from the unsuccessful attempt of the Cuban rebels to establish a beachhead on the Castro-held mainland last week, there was at least one positive benefit, and that was the clear-cut revelation to the whole world of the complete conversion of Cuba into a Russian-dominated military base.

Once the full extent of this Russian military penetration of Cuba was clear, President Kennedy announced we would take whatever action was appropriate to prevent this, even if we had to go it alone.

In this case, then, the military objective was accomplished with an epidemic agent solely through the results secured in the initial attack.

While accounts of the progress of the tsunami came in from various points in the Pacific ( Midway reported it was covered with nine feet of water ), the Hawaiian station made its calculations and notified the military services and the police that the first big wave would arrive at Honolulu at 23:30 Greenwich time.

A long book heavily weighted with military technicalities, in this edition it is neither so long nor so technical as it was originally.

When Grant's spring campaigns turned into bloody stalemates and Union casualties mounted, the lack of military success wore heavily on the President's re-election prospects, and many Republicans across the country feared that Lincoln would be defeated.

Military action was heavily influenced by the Russian military, which inspired and manipulated the rivalry between the two neighbouring nations in order to keep both under control.

However, the Almoravid religious influence was gradual and not heavily involved in military strife, as Almoravids increased in power by marrying among the nation's nobility.

They are more heavily armed and equipped ( including power armors like the K-11 and K-12 ) than a normal police force, but more lightly than a military organization.

Environment – current issues: air heavily polluted with sulfur dioxide from oil-shale burning power plants in northeast ; contamination of soil and groundwater with petroleum products, chemicals at former Soviet military bases ; Estonia has more than 1, 400 natural and artificial lakes, the smaller of which in agricultural areas are heavily affected by organic waste ; coastal sea water is polluted in many locations.

An important military base and industry center, the city was heavily bombed by Task Force 38 and FEAF during 1944 – 1945.

air and water pollution because of a lack of waste conversion equipment ; Gulf of Riga and Daugava River heavily polluted ; contamination of soil and groundwater with chemicals and petroleum products at military bases

The Malaysian Armed Forces relies heavily on local military technology and high-tech weapons systems designed and manufactured by foreign countries.

Throughout the 1980s, the Afghan military was heavily involved in fighting against the multi-national Mujahiddin rebel groups who were largely funded by the United States and trained by the Pakistani Armed Forces.

Ethnic militias and rebel groups ( in particular the United Wa State Army ) are responsible for much of this production ; however, the Burmese military units are believed to be heavily involved in the trafficking of the drugs.

Compounding this was a decision to borrow foreign capital and invest heavily in military industries.

Kim Jong-il's public activity focused heavily on on-the-spot guidance of places and events related to the military.

The North Korean government invested heavily in its military, hoping to develop the capability to reunify Korea by force if possible and also preparing to repel any attack by South Korea or the United States.

He and a few survivors commandeered a Soviet military helicopter and escaped over the heavily guarded Finnish border.

The small city of Quetta was almost completely destroyed, and the adjacent military cantonment was heavily damaged.

Nonetheless, Moríñigo continued to maintain close relations with the heavily German-influenced Argentine military throughout the war and provided a haven for Axis spies and agents.

On the other hand, Washington foreign policymakers, along with Middle East experts, military critics, and firms heavily invested in the region, were extremely concerned with stability in this region.

A group of rogue Force Recon Marines led by disenchanted Brigadier General Frank Hummel ( Ed Harris ) seize a stockpile of deadly VX gas – armed rockets from a heavily guarded military bunker, reluctantly leaving one of their men to die in the process, when a bead of the gas falls and breaks.

While there are no specifics given, it is strongly suggested in the film that America's cities, military, and industrial base are heavily damaged or destroyed.

They all enjoy relatively strong economies and stable governments, allow freedom of religion, have chosen democracy as a form of governance, favor capitalism and international trade, are heavily influenced by Judeo-Christian values, and have some form of political and military alliance or cooperation.

* ATF Dingo, a German heavily armored military infantry mobility vehicle

For the most part of the years of the Fifth Coalition, British military operations on land apart from in the Iberian Peninsula remained restricted to hit-and-run operations executed by the Royal Navy, which dominated the sea after having beaten down almost all substantial naval opposition from France and its allies and blockading what remained of France's naval forces in heavily fortified French-controlled ports.