But the last resort includes the use of armed force.
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Johnson described the use of armed force as a drastic step.
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At present, that relatively high number reflects the world's third largest armed force.
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The United Nations did not say which armed force carried out Saturday's attack.
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Mr Abdelaziz's armed force, the Polisario Front, has not fought in a generation.
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What is more, it can achieve its aims without using armed force at all.
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This "sharp power" in commerce is a complement to the hard power of armed force.
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It is the party's armed force, not a national army pledged to defend the state.
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It has learned to cooperate and negotiate, not resort to armed force, to resolve problems.
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It is the first step on the way to disappearing as an insurgent armed force.
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Britain had long blocked EU defense integration, fearing a European armed force wearing the same uniforms.
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The United Nations Charter generally prohibits all use of armed force, except in two narrow situations.
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The Ewoks face a heavily armed force of storm and scout troopers, with several light armor platforms.
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This echoes President Donald Trump's warnings that the United States could use armed force against Mr Maduro's regime.
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"We sometimes worry that armed force will be used, by either side," said Mosul Mayor Zuheir al-Araji.
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The idea of MyGate came after its co-founder and CEO, Vijay Arisetty, left the Indian armed force.
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Ankara's armed force, the second largest in NATO, faced countless risks against the Soviet threat during the Cold War.
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Both insurrections had grown out of anti-tax protests, in which mobs crossed the line by using armed force.
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Blue and White, a centrist party led by Benny Gantz, a former armed force chief, is Likud's strongest opponent.
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But Sunnis have no national armed force, only tribal militias blended into Iraqi security forces to fight the militants.
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By declaring martial law across urban Beijing, Deng Xiaoping, the party's leader, signaled that armed force was an option.
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Haftar also has resisted the GNA's efforts to integrate his self-styled Libyan National Army into the national armed force.
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Hezbollah is the most powerful armed force in Lebanon as well as being part of the governing coalition in Beirut.
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Along with three other armed force members, Lopes mixed and refined techniques used in Karate, Taekwondo, Kung Fu, Judo, and Jiu-Jitsu.
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Eight years ago, the government established the Pacifying Police Units, a heavily armed force that tries to reclaim favelas from the gangs.
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It has funded health and education services, trained local police and more recently joined insurgent factions together into a new armed force.
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The founders rejected the notion that individuals or some group could use armed force just because they did not like a particular law.
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And now the Air Force is responsible for branding, uniform design, and the various other requirements involved with creating a new armed force.
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A senior ally of German Chancellor Angela Merkel said Russia had gained the upper hand in Syria and the surrounding region through armed force.
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At the same time, there has to be some sort of armed force to restore security and clean up any remaining warlords or militias.
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China will not be a military peer until and unless it can apply armed force as quickly, lethally, and globally as the United States.
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Absent a U.S. military presence, they are being targeted by Turkey and every other armed force in Syria, including ISIS, al Qaeda and Iran.
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A FEW YEARS before he became president, Donald Trump's family probably did business with associates of Iran's ideological armed force, the Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC).
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In the absence of an armed force in Gaza, Israeli soldiers would have simply crossed the fence, destroyed the tents, and arrested hundreds of demonstrators.
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Prosecutors, however, have claimed the men were willing to use "armed force, threats and intimidation" to enforce Bundy's desire to see his impounded cattle returned.
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No police officer wanted to shoot at a migrant, Petry said, adding "I don't want that either but, ultimately, deterrence includes the use of armed force".
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Does that mean in that moment, Rick glimpsed a path to survival in the form of an armed force he could bring in to the effort?
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Tillerson's speech comes as Turkey has harshly criticized US plans to create an armed force of 30,000 Syrians to maintain security in areas recently freed from ISIS.
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The former governor, a Sunni who now has at his command an armed force trained by Turkey, says he is bowing out of office but not politics.
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In less than a year, Salgado transformed a group of untrained citizens into an armed force that was able to track down and arrest kidnappers and murderers.
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But if America is going to crush white nationalism as a political and armed force in this country, it needs to talk about it openly and forcefully.
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The government seems not to care about the risks of allowing an inexperienced armed force to deal with vulnerable people like refugees and victims of human trafficking.
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It shows that this type of conflict has been happening since the time of eh Greeks and that the lesser armed force ultimately can in fact triumph.
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The U.S. Congress could also threaten to introduce sanctions in response to any use of armed force to crush dissent or further curbing of Hong Kong's autonomy.
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"This is an issue that cuts to the very heart of the 'raise and maintain' responsibilities of building an armed force in a diverse society," he said.
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Chinese leader's warning to Taiwan: Armed force could be used to stop Taiwan from asserting independence, Xi Jinping said in his first major speech about the island.
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In less than a year, Salgado transformed a group of untrained local citizens into an armed force that was able to track down and arrest kidnappers and murderers.
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Her account sheds new light on how senior generals and military commanders tried to resist orders to use armed force, signing letters officially pushing back against martial law.
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Under the resolution Lebanon's army is responsible for security on its side of the border in a zone from which any other armed force, including Hezbollah, is banned.
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After the Second World War, though, international norms began to shift; by 1977, the Geneva Conventions prohibited recruiting anyone under the age of fifteen into an armed force.
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The Kurds have their own armed force, the Peshmerga, which in 2014 prevented Islamic State from capturing Kirkuk after the Iraqi army fled in the face of the militants.
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This phase of the war pits motorcycle-riding insurgents who plant mines and then swiftly disappear against an armed force that is lured into traps while chasing the insurgents.
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But he did say that unification should be peaceful, and he did not mention a previous commitment by Beijing to use armed force should Taiwan ever declare formal independence.
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But some of the paramilitary groups are viewed as all but directly following orders from Iran, making them a parallel armed force that the Iraqi government cannot entirely control.
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In other words, it's a Kurdish armed force with a multi-ethnic façade, and the Arabs of Raqqa could well be worried about their intentions in a post-ISIS Syria.
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Even today, stories of sexual assault and torture are common in Indian states where the Armed Force Special Power Act (AFSPA) is enacted, granting officers immunity from legal proceedings against them.
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Reluctant to entrust their fate to outsiders, they have set up their own administrative council in a caravan, as well as an armed force, the Sinjar Resistance Units, numbering 1,000 men.
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Saudi Arabia and its allies appear willing to use all means short of armed force to rein in Qatar, but the brittle mood has stirred worries about the possibility of violence.
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The upcoming title will be directed by Khan, and is based on Subhas Chandra Bose's Indian National Army, an armed force formed by nationalists to fight for India's independence from British rule.
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According to Kosovo's Constitution, drafted after the Serbian Army and police forces were driven out in the summer of 1999, NATO is the only armed force allowed to operate in the country.
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Rumors have swirled since then that King Salman and his favorite son would soon move against Prince Mutaib, commander of the third armed force and himself a former contender for the crown.
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He was elected in 2018 on the promise of fighting poverty and inequalities with "abrazos no balazos" — hugs, not bullets — and he has also created a new armed force, the National Guard.
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"In case there is a threat to the lives of our military, the Russian Armed Force will take retaliatory measures both over the missiles and carriers that will use them," he said.
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"It's not unusual for an armed force to rapidly lose territory once its forward units are defeated or demoralized," says Robert Farley, a political scientist who studies airpower at the University of Kentucky.
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But close behind looms the problem of semi-detached Turkey, a country that not only possesses NATO's second-biggest armed force, but also straddles a critical geopolitical fault-line between west and east.
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The Kurds have their own armed force, the Peshmerga, which in 2014 prevented Islamic State from capturing the oil region of Kirkuk after the Iraqi army fled in the face of the militants.
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In 1990, the area's economic community formed a multilateral armed force, the Economic Community of West African States Monitoring Group (ECOMOG), which intervened in conflicts in Liberia and Sierra Leone with some success.
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There is solid reason to remain active in the region, and so long as there are members of the Armed Force on the ground there, Trump is absolutely right in going to visit them.
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"There are always men thinking that women are slaves, but when women are an armed force, men are scared of them," said Arzu Demir, the Turkish author of a book on the Y.P.J. militias.
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"It's like a country that has an armed force that is able to battle on one front, but if another front opens up, we are certainly more vulnerable than many other countries," he said.
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A mixed Kurdish and Yazidi armed force known as the Sinjar Resistance Unit said on Monday it had dislodged the jihadists from five Yazidi villages west of Mosul in an advance that began on Saturday.
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Rocket attacks from Gaza rarely cause casualties and Israel usually responds with air strikes against positions controlled by Hamas, the Islamist movement that is the dominant armed force in the territory of two million Palestinians.
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There was no immediate comment from Hamas, which has fought three wars with Israel in the past decade and is the dominant Palestinian armed force in Gaza, where an Israeli security fence runs along the frontier.
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"As the SPLA was the only armed force operating and in control of Malakal town, it is difficult to exonerate the local SPLA commanders and government-allied militia from involvement in the incident," the report said.
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The National Guard Bureau, which oversees America's armed-force reserves, said that 965 guardsmen have been deployed to the Mexican border, considerably fewer than the up to 4,000 that Donald Trump wants to patrol the area.
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A lightly armed force of approximately 2,500 peacekeepers would help implement the Arusha Agreement, a 1993 peace accord that ended the civil war between Rwanda's Hutu government and the Tutsi liberation movement, the Rwandan Patriotic Front.
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But with little public discussion or oversight, Mark G. Peters, who was fired last month from his post as investigation commissioner, transformed the character of the agency, turning it into an armed force under his command.
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New interior and defense ministers, both of whom are veterans of the 17-year-old war, have promised to reinvigorate an armed force that President Ashraf Ghani says has lost more than 28,000 members since 2015.
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Hindmarsh himself could not be reached, but asked by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation in 2016 about his work for the UAE, Hindmarsh said, "I am a serving officer in the UAE Armed Force" and declined further comment.
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On Tuesday, TMZ reported that Joshua, the voice of "Damn, Daniel," was a target of swatting, the problematic practice of calling in false reports of shootings or violence to the police, who then respond with armed force.
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Details: The armed force branch said in a statement that the cause of the crash is currently under investigation, and that the names of the deceased will be withheld until 24 hours after next-of-kin notification.
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When the attack spreads to the CIA base, they defend it with the weapons they have, holding out against a much larger, better-armed force while frantically calling for backup that seems in no hurry to arrive.
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Even so, the unnamed Chinese compilers omitted major speeches that Mr. Zhao made in 1989, when he was forced from power after Deng authorized using armed force to clear student protesters occupying Tiananmen Square, Ms. Gan said.
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"Ukraine refuses to recognize them as its citizens, imposing an economic blockade, not allowing them to vote, using armed force against them," Vladislav Y. Surkov, the Kremlin aide who runs Ukraine policy, told the TASS news agency.
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Arming 20 percent of them, as Mr. Trump suggested, would mean 700,000 or so teachers with Glocks and the like on their hips — an armed force half as large as America's real armed forces on active duty.
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"The defendants recruited, organized, and led hundreds of other followers in using armed force against law enforcement officers in order to thwart the seizure and removal of Cliven Bundy's cattle from federal public lands," the indictment said.
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Other demands from Machar's side are to implement a joint command, an integrated armed force and a joint police force securing Juba, all issues laid out in a peace deal but not yet implemented, said Gatdet Dak.
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The launch of the GHPA as a new armed force of the Ministry of the Interior was such a powerful and symbolic announcement that, in that instant, we all forgot this small, subsidiary mention of transalpine cooperation.
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LAS VEGAS (Reuters) - Six followers of Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy used "armed force, threats and intimidation" against federal law enforcement officers during a tense 2014 standoff, prosecutors said, wrapping up their conspiracy case against the men on Wednesday.
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These include agreeing to come to the aid of other member countries in the event of an attack (in a manner they deem appropriate) and furnishing a large enough armed force to collectively make good on that threat.
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They didn't need formal titles to exude dominance, and they made some of their fateful decisions — like Mao's launching of the Cultural Revolution or Deng's decision to use armed force against protesters in 1989 — outside conventional political channels.
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That the Coast Guard is going without pay during the shutdown is "the first time in our nation's history that service members in a U.S. armed force have not been paid during a lapse in government appropriations," Adm.
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"I don't think they would directly withdraw that relationship unless China went in with armed force either through the PLA (People's Liberation Army) or through the People's Armed Police," Daly said at the Morgan Stanley Asia Pacific Summit.
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Insofar as Trump has announced an irrevocable decision to use armed force — in part because he has no properly accessible diplomatic assets in an effectively leaderless Department of State — the president's operational choices are readily foreseeable in Moscow.
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However, if Europe is unwilling or unable to field a credible armed force to take on challenges from Russia or elsewhere, we must question the utility of an alliance that is a shell of what it used to be.
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The tension was exacerbated last week when the US announced plans to stay indefinitely in Syria, as well as create an armed force of 30,000 people, consisting mainly of Syrian Kurds, to maintain security in areas seized from ISIS.
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For over a decade, Guo sat on the Central Military Commission, in charge of the world's largest armed force, numbering around 2.3 million, after joining the army in 1961 and rising through its ranks, according to his official biography.
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Under U.N. resolution 1701, which ended the 2006 war between Israel and Hezbollah, the Lebanese army is responsible for security on its side of the border in a zone from which any other armed force, including Hezbollah, is banned.
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Basilan Governor Jim Salliman said at least five others were wounded by the attack, which used a van and targeted a checkpoint manned by a Citizen Armed Force Geographical Unit (CAFGU) -- a paramilitary contingent which included military and civilians.
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Earlier this year, the king removed Prince Mohammed bin Nayef as head of the interior ministry, placing him under house arrest and extending the crown prince's influence over the interior ministry's troops, which act as a second armed force.
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The United States has pursued a policy of strategic patience to give sanctions time to work, rather than resort to heavy armed force, in the belief a weakening economy will eventually force Iran to negotiate on more favourable terms.
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Any Marines involved could be charged under provisions forbidding conduct unbecoming of a military officer, behavior that brings discredit to the armed force, or broadcasting images without a person's consent when there is a reasonable expectation of privacy, the statement said.
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Shabayev, the Cossack leader, said casualties were so high because the force had no air cover, and because they were attacked not by poorly equipped rebels, their usual adversaries, but by a well-armed force that could launch air strikes.
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When the history of the Trump years is finally written, one of the president's signature policies, one of his lasting achievements and legacies, will be the deliberate use of armed force to separate immigrant mothers and fathers from their children.
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The agreement to bus the militants and refugees to Syria was part of a cease-fire deal between Hezbollah, the Lebanese armed force and political party, and the Syrian affiliate of Al Qaeda, now known as the Levant Liberation Committee.
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And when Congress has passed authorizations of military force, as it did in 2001 and 2002, presidents have stretched these measures to justify the use of armed force in distant locations and for different purposes more than 15 years later.
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In 19th-century Britain many commentators decried their government's resort to armed force to prise open China's markets, sometimes not so much from a moral standpoint as because they feared that getting tough with China would reinforce its contempt for foreign trade.
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But things took a dark turn — the pharmaceutical enterprise failed, and reports emerged of McAfee steeping himself in lurid activities: fostering a harem of teenage girlfriends, associating with armed criminals, and establishing an armed force to protect himself and harass a nearby village.
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"At the same time while willing to engage diplomatically, we are going to have to confront Russia when it comes to areas where they attack us, whether it be with cyber, or they try to change borders using armed force," he continued.
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With no armed force under its own command, the Tripoli government depended for security on a fractious array of local militias with their own conflicting motives, including many that United Nations experts have said are involved in migrant smuggling, extortion and other crimes.
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Today, however, demonstrators connect rapidly through social media and have multiple grievances and demands, including better public services, higher pensions and the full implementation of the 2016 peace accord between the government and the former Revolutionary Armed Force of Colombia, or FARC, rebels.
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The use of force should only be a last resort, undertaken in strict conformity with the rules of the United Nations; and it was absolutely clear, in the French cleric's view, that the circumstances permitting a recourse to armed force (against Iraq) did not exist.
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TRIPOLI (Reuters) - Libya's state oil company said on Sunday it welcomed the "unconditional" reopening of blockaded oil ports following a deal between the U.N.-backed government and an armed force which controls key facilities, saying it would begin work to restart exports from the terminals.
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"To the best of my knowledge, this marks the first time in our Nation's history that servicemembers in a U.S. Armed Force have not been paid during a lapse in appropriations," Commandant Admiral Karl L. Schultz, the branch's top official, wrote in a statement.
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"The task of fighting armed bandits here in Syria, a task that it was essential to solve with the help of extensive use of armed force, has for the most part, been solved and solved spectacularly," Putin said, in remarks broadcast on Russian television.
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In a speech this month to the people of Taiwan, a self-ruled democracy that Beijing considers Chinese territory, President Xi Jinping said the island "must be and will be" united with China and warned that independence efforts could be met by armed force.
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Moreover, transferring them there would set up a court battle that executive branch officials want to avoid: whether the government's claim is valid that Congress's 2001 authorization to fight Al Qaeda also covers the use of armed force against the Islamic State in Syria.
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BENGHAZI, Libya (Reuters) - The dominant armed force in the east Libyan city of Benghazi said on Thursday it had taken control of one the last holdouts of Islamist-led militias, amid clashes in which at least 18 troops were killed, according to medical officials.
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Several excuses for a climb-down mollified those polled, notably ones in which China's leader variously agreed to UN mediation, argued that the Chinese were a peaceful people, explained that the economy would be hurt by war, or proposed economic sanctions as an alternative to armed force.
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The men, part of the International Freedom Battalion of the People's Protection Unit, or YPG, the Kurdish-led Syrian armed force fighting ISIS alongside US forces, were going on what they called a "raid," basically taking control of a building inside or close to enemy territory.
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And fourth, the hardest, is to find the right balance of armed force between national armies and local police forces, so that minorities feel protected and local warlords are discouraged from rebelling or breaking away Iraq's constitution provides for much of this, on paper at least.
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"Constitutionally, because the president is commander-in-chief, there's little Congress can do to compel the president to use armed force or to support belligerents with combat troops if the president doesn't want to do so," Tufts University's Fletcher School law professor Michael Glennon told Vox.
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"We got information that shows KIA members might be among the refugees for humanitarian aid...we need to scrutinize whether members of the armed force are among them," government spokesman Zaw Htay said, adding that children, women and the elderly would get priority in receiving aid.
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Given the grave consequences that the plot would have had had it worked, and how dangerous extremists are in any armed force, the German government and military command are right to investigate how broadly extremist sentiments run in the army, and to seek ways of curbing them.
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Late in 2014 President Xi Jinping went to Gutian, a small town in the south where, 85 years before, Mao had first laid down the doctrine that the People's Liberation Army (PLA) is the armed force not of the government or the country but of the Communist Party.
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"Turkey has a large armed force, professional armed forces and ... I am certain they will continue as a committed and strong NATO ally," Stoltenberg told Reuters in an interview on the sidelines of a meeting of defense officials from more than 30 countries involved in the coalition against Islamic State.
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Now Trump's second secretary of State joins his third national security advisor as the most propinquitous foreign policy aides in recent memory; the prospect of these two hard-liners joining forces strikes terror in the minds of all those with a less combative view of the purpose of our armed force.
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His other books included "Plagues and Peoples" (1976), "The Pursuit of Power: Technology, Armed Force, and Society since A.D. 1000" (1982), "Arnold J. Toynbee: A Life" (1989), "Hutchins' University: A Memoir of the University of Chicago, 1929-1950" (1991) and "Keeping Together in Time: Dance and Drill in Human History" (1995).
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"We commit to a ceasefire and to refrain from any use of armed force for any purpose that does not strictly constitute counter-terrorism," the rivals said in a rare statement agreed in the second encounter between the rivals since talks in Abu Dhabi in May that produced little concrete progress.
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"They help ensure that political appointees and uniformed commanders fully understand and consider law of war principles, as well as the dictates of congressional legislation, before any final decision is reached regarding the use of armed force in defense of the nation, particularly during the planning of combat operations," he said.
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BEIJING — China's president, Xi Jinping, warned Taiwan that unification must be the ultimate goal of any talks over its future and that efforts to assert full independence could be met by armed force, laying out an unyielding position on Wednesday in his first major speech about the contested island democracy.
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Adm. Karl Schultz, top commander of the U.S. Coast Guard, addressed the government shutdown in a letter on Tuesday, telling the men and women of the Coast Guard that it's "the first time in our Nation's history that servicemembers in a U.S. Armed Force have not been paid" in a lapse of federal funding.
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" The provision with bite is article 5 — that is, members agree "that an armed attack against one or more of them in Europe or North America shall be considered an attack against them all," and in response, NATO will assist by taking "such action as it deems necessary, including the use of armed force.
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What he means by liberalism is free elections with no parties excluded, a judiciary independent enough to enforce democratic law over the ambitions of powerful individuals, freedom of expression for both the press and artists, an armed force concerned solely with protecting the country from external threats, equal rights for minorities and open capital markets.
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" But as George F. Kennan, the diplomat and the author of the theories for containing the Soviet Union, told students at the National War College in 1946, "You have no idea how much it contributes to the general politeness and pleasantness of diplomacy when you have a little quiet armed force in the background.
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This requires us to advance a transformative vision, one in which law enforcement is a trusted community partner and not just an armed force; where it respects and honors the humanity of the people it serves; where police officers are held accountable for misconduct; and where police officers join with communities of color to be both peacemakers and peacekeepers.
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The latest arrested are just a fraction of the hundreds who authorities say used armed force against law enforcement officers to "thwart the seizure" of the cows after Bundy refused to obtain permits or pay fees for 20 years that would allow them to graze on public land, according to a news release from the U.S. Attorney's Office in Nevada.
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"(The) Lebanese on the one hand really want to develop their natural resources, and the unresolved dispute with Israel is disruptive for them - for us too, but for them more," Steinitz told Tel Aviv radio station 102 FM. But Steinetz added Lebanon could also be facing "internal pressure, that they (are) under the sway of fear of Hezbollah", referring to Lebanon's most powerful armed force.
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The FBI "took a former senator, a former governor, grabbed him in an airport, hustled him into a room with armed force to try to intimidate him into taking different positions on issues of public policy and important national policy, and the fact that he wasn't intimidated because he was calm doesn't show that they weren't trying to intimidate him," Sherman said in an interview with The Hill's Molly K. Hooper.
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I believe now that a subliminal empire does persist in the dreaming of a large number of Britons, hinted at in a longing for the return of guilt-free racial categorization, in the idea that my country can be both globally open and privileged in an international trading system where it can somehow turn the rules to its advantage, in the idea of a safe white core protected from the dark hordes beyond by a mighty armed force.
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Utopianism was the order of the day, and with uncanny unanimity, Western leaders moved ahead with two great imperialist projects that were supposed to bring peace and prosperity to the earth: An "ever closer union" of the nations of Europe in which they would forfeit much of their former independence; and an American-sponsored "rules-based international order," under which nations that do not abide by the decisions of international bodies would be coerced into doing so, principally by US armed force -- a globalist policy that we got to see carried out in Yugoslavia, Iraq, Libya, Afghanistan, and Somalia.
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