By-passing the military junta which has ruled Turkey since the overthrow of Premier Adnan Menderes 17 months ago, the army general staff, led by Gen. Cedvet Sunay, had set a deadline for the parties to join in a national coalition government.

The Opuntian Locrians worshiped Ajax as their national hero, and so great was their faith in him that when they drew up their army in battle, they always left one place open for him, believing that, although invisible to them, he was fighting for and among them.

In 2001, the National Guard unit was designated an official military unit of the Bulgarian army and one of the symbols of state authority, along with the flag, the coat of arms and the national anthem.

On 15 August 1909 the Military League, a group of Greek officers, took action against the government to reform their country's national government and reorganize the army.

Internal dissent within the government led Prime Minister Habré to send his forces against Malloum's national army in the capital in February 1979.

From independence through the period of the presidency of Félix Malloum ( 1975 – 79 ), the official national army was known as the Chadian Armed Forces ( Forces Armées Tchadiennes — FAT ).

After Habré consolidated his authority and assumed the presidency in 1982, his victorious army, the Armed Forces of the North ( Forces Armées du Nord — FAN ), became the nucleus of a new national army.

But disunity, the problems of transforming a 30, 000-man army into a national combat force of more than 200, 000 men, and spreading corruption weakened the civilian administration and army.

The CIRA considers itself a direct continuation of the Irish Republican Army ( the army of the unilaterally-declared 1919 – 1922 Irish Republic ) that fought in the Irish War of Independence ; as such, its supporters regard it as the national army of a 32 county Irish Republic.

Unrest and rebellion plagued the government until 1965, when Lieutenant General Mobutu, by then commander in chief of the national army, seized control of the country and declared himself president for five years.

During the crucial period of July – August 1960, Joseph-Désiré Mobutu built up " his " national army by channeling foreign aid to units loyal to him, by exiling unreliable units to remote areas, and by absorbing or dispersing rival armies.

But, because Amanullah controlled both the national treasury and the army, Amanullah was well situated to seize power.

The African country of Gabon has a small, professional military of about 5, 000 personnel, divided into army, navy, air force, gendarmerie, and national police.

Nonetheless, the politically astute army officers then stepped aside from political office ( the national presidency ), and made way for a general election of the national government of Guatemala.

The Gallipoli campaign gave an important boost to the career of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, a little-known, low-ranking army officer whose success at Gallipoli made him a national hero.

# As a means of national defence, it facilitates the concentration, distribution and direction of the army.

In the 1566 Battle of Szigetvár, Miklós Zrínyi defended Szigetvár for 30 days against the largest Ottoman army ever seen up to that day, and died leading his remaining few soldiers on a final suicide charge to become one of the best known national heroes.

Other examples of heads of state in parliamentary systems using greater powers than usual, either because of ambiguous constitutions or unprecedented national emergencies, include the decision by King Léopold III of the Belgians to surrender on behalf of his state to the invading German army in 1940, against the will of his government.

It made first mention of the organisation treating " the armed forces of the enemy – whether soldiers or policemen – exactly as a national army would treat the members of an invading army ".

Madison found the war to be an administrative nightmare, as the United States had neither a strong army nor financial system ; as a result, he afterward supported a stronger national government and a strong military, as well as the national bank, which he had long opposed.

Thus, to cite but one example, the Pax Britannica of the nineteenth century, whether with the British navy ruling the seas or with the City of London ruling world finance, was strictly national in motivation, however much other nations ( e.g., the United States ) may have incidentally benefited.

At the time, he began to support a national bank, a stronger navy, and a standing army.

Consequently, both preferred a small standing army under civilian control for defensive deterrence and to prosecute foreign wars, a large navy as the first line of national defence, and a militia composed of their neighbours as additional defence and to preserve domestic order.

By 2009, a rebuilding Somalia had re-established its national army and police force, with a new navy and air force also in the process of being re-constituted.

The most important of these principles were states ' rights, opposition to a strong national government, distrust of the federal courts, and opposition to the navy and the national Bank.

The Benin Armed Forces ( FAB ) constitutes the army, navy, air force, and national gendarmerie of Benin.

The army consists of infantry battalions, the national guard, and the navy, all under the authority of the Department of State for Defence ( a ministerial portfolio held by President Jammeh ).

Japan's reforms under the Meiji emperor gave significant priority to naval construction, and the creation of an effective modern national army and navy.

During one national TV appearance on Clark's Saturday night program (" Live from the little theater on 44th St. in Manhattan "), he was filmed in navy uniform, arriving just in time for the filming session.

It included infantry, artillery, transmission, armored cavalry, airborne, airforce, navy and a national military academy.

Dibdin's patriotic sea-songs ( painting the simple loyalty and manly courage of the British sailor ) and their melodious refrains powerfully influenced the national spirit and were officially appropriated to the use of the British navy during the war with France.

The navy, army and the air force each have their own military police branch, whereas the air force also has an installation guard branch ( Danish: stationselementet ), and a combat support wing which handles military guard duties in either national or international tasks.

Despite the problems of these early years, some Canadians were still active supporters of a national navy.

An Abyssinian flag was not found, so the navy proceeded to use that of Zanzibar and to play Zanzibar's national anthem.

These designs often bear an additional central device or emblem to further identify national aircraft, those from the French navy bearing a black anchor within the French cockade.

The naval ensign of the Tunisian navy from the 1830s, and national flag of Tunisia from 1959 to 1999, with a slightly thinner crescent than in the current design.

Jamaica's naval ensign is a White Ensign with a Saint George's Cross and the Jamaican national flag in the canton, although due to the island's lack of a navy, it is normally only used by the Jamaican Coastguard.

The opposition claimed the national character was stained and Canning read out in Parliament the previous administration's plans in 1806 to stop the Portuguese navy falling into the hands of France.

Mrs. Driscoll was part of the navy contingent that joined the new national cryptologic agencies, firstly the Armed Forces Security Agency in 1949 and then the National Security Agency in 1952.

Though its secession is not legally recognized, Kamen refers to the island as the " Kingdom of North Dumpling ", and has established a constitution, flag, currency, and national anthem, as well as a navy ( consisting of a single amphibious vehicle ).

Among its prominent students are Wang Fuzhi, a celebrated philosopher in Chinese history ; Wei Yuan, a reformist who first advocated the idea of learning from the West ; Zeng Guofan, the first Chinese to initiate the Modernization Movement ( at the time called Yangwu Yundong, movement of emulate of oversea scitech and industry ) and to make arrangements for a modern factory in China ; Zuo Zongtang, a national hero who arranged to build China ’ s first navy and took great pains to defend and develop Xinjiang ; Guo Songtao, China ’ s first ambassador to a foreign country ; Cai E, a major leader in defending the Republic of China ; the first Chinese to set foot on the continent of Antarctica ; and Ci Yungui, the chief designer of China's first super computer.

It was a quasi-independent organization, originally established by Ramfis Trujillo, the son of the former dictator, and was formed to protect the government and keep watch over the national guard, navy and air force.