In the early 1970s, setbacks to US military capabilities in the region including the fall of Saigon, victory of the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia, the closure of the Peshawar Air Station listening post in Pakistan and Kagnew Station in Ethiopia, the Mayaguez incident, and the build-up of Soviet Naval presence in Aden and a Soviet Air Base at Berbera, Somalia, caused the US to request, and the UK to approve, permission to build a fleet anchorage and enlarged airfield on Diego Garcia, and the Seabees doubled the number of workers constructing these facilities.

Brzezinski anticipated the Soviet invasion, and, with the support of Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, and the People's Republic of China, he created a strategy to undermine the Soviet presence.

During the winter of 2010 it received no snow and saw below normal rains due to the presence of El-Nino over Pakistan.

For the first time in the history of Pakistan, a woman was chairwoman of a major political party, though she was unable to make her political presence felt in Pakistan until after the death of General Zia.

For the fifth consecutive year, UN-sponsored talks are held in Geneva between Afghanistan and Pakistan with the object of ending the military presence in Kabul.

As a consequence, prior to the 1980s, neither India nor Pakistan maintained any permanent military presence in the region.

* 1 November-The government accuses neighbouring Pakistan of provocation, saying it has been slowly increasing its military presence in Kashmir.

Wikileaks ' releases of cables from the U. S. Embassy, Pakistan, revealed the presence of a detachment of SOCOM ( or possibly United States Army Special Operations Command ) referred to as SOC ( FWD )- PAK ( 09ISLAMABAD2449, 9 August 2010 ).

# It raised objections about Etisalat's presence in Pakistan and its connection with Pakistan's intelligence agency ISI.

Afridi made his presence felt in the third Test against India in March 2005, scoring a quick-fire second-innings half-century and taking five wickets in the match ( including Tendulkar twice ) to help Pakistan to win the game and register a series draw.

A few birds from India are known to winter in the Gangetic plains but reports of its presence in many other parts of the region such as the Maldives, Pakistan and Bangladesh has been questioned.

Recently at a reception hoisted by the Pakistan High Commission for the Pakistan Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar who was on a visit to India on 28 July 2011, the former Law Minister and Rajya Sabha MP Ram Jethmalani in the presence of the Chinese Ambassador called China an enemy of both India and Pakistan and warned the Indians and Pakistanis to beware of the Chinese.

Jamaat also denounces the presence of American troops and agencies in Pakistan.

He wrote in June 2010, " there comes a point when our presence is doing more harm than good, serving to destabilise Pakistan rather than to stabilise Afghanistan.

A grand ceremony was held in Beijing where Pakistan's then Foreign Minister Sahibzada Yaqub Khan signed on behalf of Pakistan in the presence of Munir Ahmad Khan and Chinese Prime Minister.

The Pakistan Navy had a poor presence of conducting operations East Pakistan, it had lack of capacity of conducting offensive operations in deep Bay of Bengal.

Although proposals were made to increased the naval presence in East Pakistan but no serious reforms were made.

Under the direction of former Commander of Navy, Admiral Syed Mohammad Ahsan, the navy's presence in East Pakistan was tripled.

However, despite those efforts, the presence of the Armed Forces on the border regions of the Brazilian Amazon continues to be sparse and disperse, given the fact that the Army has just 28 border detachments in that area, a total of 1, 600 soldiers, or 1 men for every of borders.

Phibunsongkhram, a World War II hero of Thailand, the Prime Minister, Commander-in-Chief of the Army and Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces in 1941 had signed a formal treaty of alliance between the two Buddhist countries of Thailand and Japan in the divine presence of the Emerald Buddha in the wat.

The very presence of If in front of each desk, has inspired thousands of the Armed Forces officers trained at the NDA over the last half century.

In 2007, he voted against the Mandatory Troop Rest Periods between Deployments to Iraq bill ( creates a mandatory rest period between deployments to Iraq for members of the Armed Forces, passed ) and against the Redeployment from Iraq Act ( reduces the presence of the U. S. armed forces in Iraq by April 1, 2008, passed ).

Born in 1902 to the Chehab family, a Maronite Christian family of noble ancestry, General Fouad Chehab became commander of the Lebanese Armed Forces in 1945, after Lebanon gained its independence upon the end of the French mandate and French military presence.

Because of the presence of the Armed Forces Special Weapons Project and its successors, Sandia Base had military personnel of all of the services as well as Department of Defense civilian employees.

Armed citizens erected a barricade along Sacramento Street to repel city officers from removing their presence.

By mid-1985, when the number of active members was estimated at between 1, 500 and 2, 000 ( including a more noticeable urban presence ), the M-19 was the second largest guerrilla group in Colombia after the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia.

Due to the Chinook helicopters ' presence, the witnesses presumed that at least one branch of the United States Armed Forces witnessed the object, if they were not escorting or pursuing it.

The Armed Forces Memorial was dedicated in October 2007 by the Archbishop of Canterbury in the presence of the Queen.

When Argentina militarily occupied the Falkland Islands and South Georgia, the British Armed Forces recaptured the island in ' Operation Paraquet ', thereby removing the Argentinian military presence and restoring the island to British Sovereignty.

The main reasons were firstly, Hong Kong itself must rely on the provision of fresh water and food from the mainland China, secondly, the British Armed Forces stationing in Hong Kong were too weak to defend Hong Kong from the strong military presence of China's People's Liberation Army in the Far East, and thirdly, to sustain Hong Kong's prosperity and economic development in future, Britain must cooperate with China.

The presence of large numbers of SPLA in town attracted air raids and shelling from the Sudanese Armed Forces ( SAF ).

Armed uprising, which burst in the town during the violent recatholisation, is the proof of the presence of the evangelical element until the Battle of White Mountain.

Raimundo, mayor of San Lorenzo, made an agreement with the Argentine Armed Forces in 2008 that the Regiment of Mounted Grenadiers would have a permanent presence at the site.

Under the Treaty of Mutual Cooperation and Security, the United States Forces Japan ( USFJ ) have maintained a large military presence.

The main British force left in 1994, three years after Guatemala recognised Belizean independence, but the United Kingdom maintained a training presence via the British Army Training and Support Unit Belize ( BATSUB ) and 25 Flight Army Air Corps until 2011 when the last British Forces left Ladyville Barracks, with the exception of seconded advisers.

Gorbachev was also trying to ease cold war tensions by signing the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty in 1987 with the U. S. and withdrawing the troops from Afghanistan whose presence had garnered so much international condemnation.

Every year on the National Day of Commemoration – the Sunday nearest July 11-the anniversary of the Truce that ended the Anglo-Irish War – the President of Ireland, in the presence of members of the Government of Ireland, members of Dáil Éireann and of Seanad Éireann, the Council of State, the Defence Forces, the Judiciary and the Diplomatic Corps, lays a wreath in the courtyard in memory of all Irishmen and Irishwomen who have died in past wars and on service with the United Nations.

The presence of armed American Special Forces advisors should have stiffened them with military expertise.

They soon find the wreckage of a downed helicopter, and later, the remains of Army Special Forces unit, whose presence in the country mystifies Dutch, and also shocks them that the bodies are found to be hanged and their skin removed.

* General Campaign Star: A medal awarded to Canadian Forces personnel who serve honorably in the presence of an armed enemy for a minimum of 30 days.

During this period she provided air power presence and airborne intelligence support ( the airwing flew over 900 sorties over Iraq ) to the Combined Joint Task Forces of Operation Provide Comfort and Operation Northern Watch enforcing the northern " no-fly zone " in Iraq.

The Government of Germany asked the allies to maintain a military presence in Berlin until the complete withdrawal of the Western Group of Forces ( ex-Soviet ) from the territory of the former East Germany.

The city became the seat of SETAF ( South European Allied Terrestrial Forces ) and had during the whole duration of the Cold War period a strong military presence, especially American, which is decreasing only in these recent years.

In 2002, Aglipayan bishops registered their objection to the presence of US Special Forces troops in the country.

United States Army Garrison Yongsan ( USAGY ) is located in Seoul, South Korea, and is home to the headquarters for the U. S. military presence in Korea, known as United States Forces Korea ( USFK ), as well as the headquarters for the Eighth United States Army and Installation Management Command Pacific Region.

At 16: 00, General Johannes Blaskowitz, the German commander-in-chief in the Netherlands, surrendered to Canadian General Charles Foulkes in the small Dutch town of Wageningen in the presence of Prince Bernhard ( acting as commander-in-chief of the Dutch Interior Forces ).

By the end of December, profiting from its internal lines of communications, the Ecuadorian Army had strengthened to a considerable degree its presence in the area, having deployed a number of units, foremost among them several Special Forces formations, as well as artillery and BM-21 multiple rocket launchers on the heights of the Cordillera del Cóndor.

Since 1958 the Defence Forces have had a continuous presence on peace support operations.

However, Sudan did not establish a significant military presence inside the DRC, though it continued to offer extensive support to three Ugandan rebel groups — the Lord's Resistance Army, the Uganda National Rescue Front II and the Allied Democratic Forces — in retaliation for Ugandan support for the Sudan People's Liberation Army.

Under that plan, the 28, 500 U. S. troop presence in South Korea will be consolidated by 2016 and United States Forces Korea will move from Seoul to Camp Humphreys.