For the first time in history the entire world is dominated by two large, powerful nations armed with murderous nuclear weapons that make conventional warfare of the past a nullity.

On 26 June, Alexei died in the Petropavlovskaya fortress in Saint Petersburg, two days after the senate had condemned him to death for conspiring rebellion against his father, and for hoping for the cooperation of the common people and the armed intervention of his brother-in-law, the emperor.

As of late 2002, the Navy had reportedly become responsible for flying all aircraft with the rivalry having subsided between the two branches of the armed forces.

Generally, a battle is a conceptual component in the hierarchy of combat in warfare between two or more armed forces, or combatants.

The fort was garrisoned by French soldiers and armed with at least four cannon and two heavy mortars.

Miyamoto Musashi, a kenjutsu master, was renowned for fighting fully armed foes with only one or two bokken.

A Cham story tells of the time that the two countries settled an armed conflict by means of a tower-building contest proposed by the Cham King Po Klaung Garai.

Originally the Maculelê is believed to have been an indigenous armed fighting style, using two sticks or a machete.

Strong points armed with heavy machine guns were set up around the island, particularly around the island's two airports.

Together with the Chinese defense minister Liang Guanglie, and Chief of Staff of the Comoros armed forces Salimou Mohamed Amiri, pledged to increase cooperation between the military of the two nations.

The Australian Mounted Division was armed with swords and in September, after the successful breaching of the Ottoman line on the Mediterranean coast by the British Empire infantry XXI Corps was followed by cavalry attacks by the 4th Cavalry Division, 5th Cavalry Division and Australian Mounted Divisions which almost encircled two Ottoman armies in the Judean Hills forcing their retreat.

This arose from misreporting of a single clash on 1 September near Krojanty, when two squadrons of the Polish 18th Lancers armed with sabres scattered German infantry before being caught in the open by German armoured cars.

It opened certain serious crimes ( including murder, manslaughter, kidnapping, rape, armed robbery, and serious drug crimes ) to a retrial, regardless of when committed, with two conditions: the retrial must be approved by the Director of Public Prosecutions, and the Court of Appeal must agree to quash the original acquittal due to " new and compelling evidence ".

He implemented desegregation of the armed forces in two years, and made five appointments to the Supreme Court.

Her displacement was 380 tons, and she was armed with one 90 mm Hontoria gun, four 57 mm Nordenfelt guns, two 37 mm Hotchkiss cannons and 3 Schwarzkopf torpedo tubes.

Sporadic armed conflict ensued between the two groups from 1972 to 1974, even as they fought Ethiopian forces.

During the time of conflict, Soviet Union sympathized with the East Pakistan and entered in the conflict when the Soviet Armed Forces ordered the Soviet Navy dispatched two groups of cruisers and destroyers and a nuclear submarine armed with nuclear missiles from Vladivostok.

They were armed with one or two Maxim or Vickers machine guns, which were easier to synchronize than other types, firing through the propeller arc.

It is played by two players both armed with sticks.

The presence of the two opposing armed forces in Finland, the Red and the White Guards, imposed a state of " dual power " and " multiple sovereignty " on Finnish society, typically the prelude to civil war.

The decisive cleavage between the two guards broke out during the general strike, when the radical elements of the Red Guards and Worker's Security Guards executed several political opponents in the main cities of southern Finland, and the first armed clashes between Civil Guards and Workers ' Guards broke out, with 34 reported casualties.

Tied to a chair, Ichinose can only watch as Mafune and the aliens unleash Mechagodzilla and Titanosaurus on Yokosuka, while Interpol struggles to repair their sonic wave machine and the Japanese armed forces struggle to keep the two monsters at bay.

However, despite these laws, East Timor has many problems with illegally armed militias, including widespread violence in 2006 which resulted in over 100, 000 people being forced from their homes, as well as two separate assassination attempts on the Prime Minister and President in early 2008.

Numerous armed invasions of hordes of migrating Celts are no longer considered to be realistic, although there are two known invasions.

These were armed with a 76 mm gun and two missiles, and were capable of speeds up to.

Athenian society was split into two factions, the Philistines and the Artists.

For a time there were two factions on the campus fighting for possession of the student body.

The savages divided into two factions ; ;

The convention broke up without arriving at a compromise and the two regional factions then acted independently.

A reunion of the two warring factions took place in 1923 when the new Conservative Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin committed his party to protective tariffs, causing the Liberals to reunite in support of free trade.

The two factions were originally known as " hard " ( Lenin's supporters ) and " soft " ( Martov's supporters ).

At the end, the Congress was evenly split between the two factions.

The two factions were in a state of flux in 1903 – 1904 with many members changing sides.

At the Fifth Congress held in London in May 1907, the Bolsheviks were in the majority, but the two factions continued functioning mostly independently of each other.

The Central Powers ( German: Mittelmächte ; Hungarian: Központi hatalmak ; Turkish: İttifak Devletleri or Bağlaşma Devletleri ; Bulgarian: Централни сили ) were one of the two warring factions in World War I ( 1914 – 18 ), composed of the German Empire, the Austro-Hungarian Empire, the Ottoman Empire, and the Kingdom of Bulgaria.

leading to a structure which has been called " one party, two factions ".

The interaction between the two main factions is largely complementary with each faction possessing a particular expertise and both committed to the continued rule of the Communist Party and not allowing intra-party factional politics to threaten party unity.

Within his " one party, two factions " model, Li Chen has noted that one should avoid labelling these two groupings with simplistic ideological labels, and that these two groupings do not act in a zero-sum, winner take all fashion.

The Congress became divided between two factions, between the one supporting Stalin, and those who supported Kamenev and Zinoviev.

The Congress was split between two dominant factions, radicals ( mostly Stalinists ) and moderates.

Modern studies represent Hypatia's death as the result of a struggle between two Christian factions, the moderate Orestes, supported by Hypatia, and the more rigid Cyril.

Lastly, he added two new factions to the chariot races, Gold and Purple, to race against the existing White, Red, Green and Blue factions.

The conquest of Syria by the Muslim Arabs in the middle of the seventh century introduced into the land two political factions later called the Qaysites and the Yemenites.

The sanguinary feuds between these two factions depleted, in course of time, the manhood of the Lebanon and ended in the decisive battle of Ain Dara in 1711, which resulted in the utter defeat of the Yemenite party.

However, on 28 December 2005, the leadership of the two factions agreed to submit a single list to voters, headed by Barghouti, who began actively campaigning for Fatah from his jail cell.

To complicate matters, the two leading factions of Nicene Christianity in the East, the Alexandrians and the supporters of Meletius in Antioch, were " bitterly divided ... almost to the point of complete animosity.

His closest advisors formed two factions, setting the framework for the future First Party System.