Rabin was a leader of the elite Palmach fighting force.
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The Peshmerga is a highly disciplined fighting force with heart.
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Without them, the fabric of our fighting force would dissolve.
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Indeed, this fighting force — lauded by no less than Gen.
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ZARIF: It is a fighting force that has defended its territory.
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The Germans weren't the only fighting force running on speed, though.
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As a fighting force, ISIS faces a unique challenge: troop cohesion.
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Is that why we're so invisible as a powerful fighting force?
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Editorial The United States has the world's most capable fighting force.
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That basically left the Kurdish militia as the one reliable fighting force.
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The United States military is the greatest fighting force in the world.
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They're estimated to make up about 30% of the group's fighting force.
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So the A.G. army is an effective fighting force against Big Tech.
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The Peshmerga, its vaunted fighting force, is split between multiple family-led factions.
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The Haqqani network is the Taliban's most independent and militarily effective fighting force.
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Our troops are the finest fighting force in the history of the world.
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Today the Islamic State is as much a media conglomerate as a fighting force.
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California's would-be fighting force would have to compete with—or maybe take over?
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But it is far from vanquished, either as a fighting force or an ideology.
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The info he can provide to us is critical to helping the fighting force.
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Hezbollah threw Israel out of Lebanon and remains the only undefeated Arab fighting force.
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Growing political sectarianism in Iraq helped the group rebuild its core Iraqi fighting force.
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He believes they should prepare for a betrayal by Negan and form a fighting force.
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CTAC is a Protectorate fighting force that quells rebellions and keeps the colonies under control.
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You play as part of the S.A.T.O. fighting force, specifically the S.C.A.R. special ops division.
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But at the same time, he also wants to field the most capable fighting force.
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Trump will likely have to choose between a NATO ally and a proven fighting force.
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"As Secretary Carter has said, this will make us a better fighting force," Carson said.
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The information Sergeant Bergdahl provided is "critical to prepare the fighting force," Mr. Russell testified.
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The Burundian army was once known in the region to be a disciplined fighting force.
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Similarly, Starship Troopers opens with an advertisement for the Mobile Infantry—Earth's frontline fighting force.
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Hezbollah has a heavily armed fighting force, in addition to seats in parliament and government.
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Previously in "The China Challenge" - Inside Xi's remaking of the world's largest fighting force: reut.
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A number of the late dictator's former commanders helped to professionalize ISIS as a fighting force.
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Military-focused "encampments," meanwhile, are home to barracks and other facilities for cultivating a fighting force.
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He oversaw arms purchases and manpower in the Hagana, the Zionist fighting force, before Israel's establishment.
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This sort of exercise is essential to keep America's fighting force ready for anything, says Col.
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An internal report raises more questions about the culture of the Navy's most elite fighting force.
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Though never an especially formidable fighting force, they're still the best-armed body in the country.
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She joined a fighting force made up of 1,300 soldiers, of whom only 2% were women.
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An earlier version of this briefing incorrectly referred to a World War I-era fighting force.
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In just a few years, an unruly peasant army was whipped into a formidable fighting force.
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Late last year, Beijing announced it planned to quadruple the size of its naval fighting force.
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The problem of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder is a well-documented one among our returning fighting force.
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America's military, which prides itself on being the greatest fighting force in world history, is falling behind.
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Those that remain all have such units—a step towards a more standardised and modern fighting force.
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Kaabi later formed his own militia, and during the Syria conflict Nujaba gelled as a fighting force.
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The hardliners, a numerical minority of the group's fighting force, comprise the Taliban's leadership based in Pakistan.
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Though the UAE's army is much smaller than Saudi Arabia's, it is a more capable fighting force.
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"Under Mills' training and protection, the women will emerge as a supreme monster-fighting force," Deadline explains.
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Our fighting force is prepared to meet & overcome threats from malign actors, including Iran & its proxy militias.
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But allowing them to serve in the military makes the world's greatest fighting force less combat-ready.
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So big terrorist attacks are a way for the group to show it's still a powerful fighting force.
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Nevertheless, they remain a potent fighting force, which they demonstrated with an advance of their own on Saturday.
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Our all-volunteer military has given us the most elite fighting force in the history of this country.
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Your devotion, prowess, and expertise make you the most fearsome fighting force in the history of our world.
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ZARIF: Hezbollah is a part of Lebanese government, a part of Lebanese society -- AMANPOUR: But it's a fighting force.
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For the U.S., the Kurds of Rojava are the only reliable, effective fighting force against ISIS on the ground.
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Mi-28 Helicopter Gunship The Mi-28 is the newest addition to Russia's air borne fighting force in Syria.
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The main fighting force is led by the UAE, which has already taken several Yemeni ports in the south.
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That division is further broken down into 10 battalions, each with an estimated fighting force of about 400 soldiers.
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Gal Gadot embodies Diana with unironic sincerity and fierce fighting force — the hero we always wanted but didn't deserve.
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We're prepared to do a great deal because we have the finest fighting force the world has ever seen.
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We will rebuild this military so that it remains the mightiest fighting force on the face of the planet.
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His army, never much of a fighting force to begin with, was badly depleted after eight years of war.
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For years, the American presence has been more important as a symbol of deterrence than as a fighting force.
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As the peshmerga – Iraqi Kurdistan's fighting force – have battled Islamic State, many Arabs have been forced from their homes.
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Apparently, he doesn't know the men and women who make up the strongest fighting force the world has ever known.
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" The palace noted, "The @RoyalMarines, which can trace its origin back to 1664, is the UK's elite amphibious fighting force.
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When the group began ordering executions and beheadings of opponents, Faris established a new Sunni fighting force to oppose it.
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"Quality people in uniform are what make our military the finest fighting force the world has ever seen," he said.
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But our military, the most effective fighting force in the world, also needs world-class military bases and strong communities.
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It also cast the Syrian army as an effective fighting force against jihadists bent on cultural vandalism and wanton killing.
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Yet neither the U.K. nor the U.S. recognize the Islamic State, a fighting force claiming a Caliphate, as a state.
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The Marine Corps is trying to change the public perception of it has a fighting force focused on ground operations.
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As the US shifts its focus back to great power competition, the service is pushing for a larger fighting force.
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In September 2013, al-Shabab, whose fighting force numbers are unknown, claimed responsibility for an onslaught on a Kenyan mall.
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If they are the highest fighting force in Wakanda, if they are with the royal family, they need full protection.
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The American military is recognized as a formidable fighting force, with logistical, communications and supply networks that excel in extremis.
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The American military is recognized as a formidable fighting force, with logistical, communications and supply networks that excel in extremis.
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Up to 15,000 members of the world's greatest fighting force, sitting in the desert, watching for poor refugees approaching on foot.
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But the fighting force on the ground in Syria and in Iraq are two very clear organizations: Daesh and Al Nusra.
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It would telegraph a powerful message that the Taliban remains a fearsome fighting force despite the death of its supreme leader.
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It also maintained a ferocious fighting force, always seeking to expand the reach of its so-called "caliphate" fundamentalist Islamic regime.
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The United States already has the world's most powerful fighting force and spends far more on defense than any other country.
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We as a nation want the best fighting force manned, and this requires strategic growth to be valued over easy headlines.
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War is necessary to defend our nation, as is having the most lethal, capable and elite fighting force in the world.
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As The Atlantic's James Fallows has explained, then-Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld wanted a light, agile fighting force of about 75,000.
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In Somalia, the Shabab, a militant group affiliated with Al Qaeda, kidnapped more than 1,600 children to replenish its fighting force.
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The Syrian Kurds provide most of the essential command-and-control for the overall fighting force, half of which is Arab.
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The Sinaloa Cartel had unleashed a heavily-armed fighting force that would soon outmaneuver and overpower military and national guard troops.
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Combatant commands (COCOMs) sequester the entire fighting force of all the service branches and military capabilities under a chain of command.
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Karimi said more MSFVs, which have MRAP-level protection, could allow the Afghan army to become a smaller, more flexible fighting force.
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The Royal Marines are Britain's elite amphibious fighting force and are deployed to some of the most dangerous conflicts in the world.
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"It could be a sign that they're feeling emboldened and are trying to recruit kids to rebuild their fighting force," he said.
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But that business strategy runs counter to the objective of speedily transforming the Afghan military into a self-sustaining modern fighting force.
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But he said that any use of cluster bombs "by Egypt or any other fighting force is appalling" and should be condemned.
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But the boldest stroke is his expansion of China's hard power, through his remaking of the PLA, the world's largest fighting force.
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I learned that spending $68 billion on Afghan forces doesn't buy the essential ingredients of a fighting force: loyalty, courage and integrity.
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To accomplish this mission, we enlist and train the best qualified we can find in order to field a superior fighting force.
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Hezbollah, a movement with a heavily armed fighting force in addition to seats in parliament and government, is Iran's spearhead in the region.
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Militant group Tahrir al Sham - a fighting force dominated by members of Al Qaeda's former branch in Syria - said it hit the plane.
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But if the country's top brass is united against Trump, his fighting force, whoever it is made of, would eventually have to surrender.
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The sacrifices paid by the reserve component echo throughout America's communities, illustrating the duty and service assumed by the nation's oldest fighting force.
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And if you think about, it's like the Army or the Marines takes in whoever and makes out of it a fighting force.
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"The Fatemiyoun are a very significant fighting force," said Peter Bouckaert, the author of a recent Human Rights Watch report on the issue.
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"Combining these strengths in a mixed manned and unmanned fighter squadron could prove to be an extremely effective fighting force," write the researchers.
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This is a show for the age of SEAL Team 6 heroism, individuality sublimated in the interest of making a powerful fighting force.
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Multiple outlets reported that four gunmen carried out the attack and killed several members of Iran's Revolutionary Guard, the nation's elite fighting force.
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John Sullivan waged in Iroquoia during the summer of 1779, a scorched-earth march involving one-third of the total Continental fighting force.
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It is crucial, not because it is in vogue, but because it makes us better, stronger and more effective as a fighting force.
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The difference is his goal: getting it into the U.S. military faster, to make it a "more lethal and more effective" fighting force.
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Ukraine has long needed US assistance to transform its army into a fierce fighting force that can withstand the might of Russia's military.
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For decades, the Saudis poured money into the country only to see Hizbullah become the main political power broker and a potent fighting force.
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Seeing first hand how little the government actually takes care of its fighting force, much less its citizens is more than enough for many.
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"American Commander" will "take readers behind the scenes and into the heart of America's most-feared fighting force," according to a Tuesday news release.
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For over a year now, they have coordinated efforts to bring together the disparate pockets of dissident FARC units into a single fighting force.
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According to GTI, ISIS-K's fighting force has declined to about 600 to 800 from a peak of about 3,000 to 4,000 in 2016.
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But the officers who signed Friday's statement said that would be a mistake, as a more inclusive military leads to a better fighting force.
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Saudi Arabia and the Gulf States have hardly succeeded in showing the world, or its regional rivals, that they are a potent fighting force.
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But, in Juarez doubts remain that containing migration is the right priority for Mexico's newest fighting force in a city sinking deeper into lawlessness.
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In the newly secured neighborhood on Wednesday, the counterterrorism troops, Iraq's most professional fighting force, seemed to be taking care to not alienate civilians.
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Governments control territory, which means they are capable of extracting money from citizens and using that revenue to build up a powerful fighting force.
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Americans — even those with fear and loathing for the welfare state — need to get behind the full mobilization of the fighting force we need.
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The commandant of the Marine Corps is pushing an ambitious plan to shrink the Corps and turn it into a more mobile fighting force.
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It enjoys broad autonomy, with its own government and parliament, its own language and customs and a fighting force known as the pesh merga.
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Kurdish leaders believe they have a trump card in the pesh merga fighting force, which has proved indispensable in battles against the Islamic State.
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ISIS established itself in Afghanistan in 1403, and though its presence is a growing concern, its fighting force is estimated at fewer than 1,000.
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ISIS established itself in Afghanistan in 2015, and though its presence is a growing concern, its fighting force is estimated at fewer than 1,000.
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Algorithms of various other kinds — will be put to work by the most powerful fighting force ever designed, for expanded intervention into our immigration system.
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But the group was operating with a relatively small fighting force — about 5,000 fighters at its height in mid-2018, according to the U.S. official.
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The government has begun to acknowledge the danger that suicide poses for an all-volunteer fighting force and has invested $1 billion in seeking solutions.
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The military has in years past estimated the PKK's total fighting force at about 5,000, counting the guerrillas' ranks in rural Turkey and northern Iraq.
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But the heavy spending never translated into an effective fighting force that would enable the kingdom to protect itself and engage in military ventures abroad.
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The last we saw, he and they were vanquished at the Battle of Hogwarts by Dumbledore's Army, a fighting force of students Harry drummed up.
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Officials from the countries involved say they have significantly degraded the L.R.A., diminishing it to around 2329 people today from a fighting force of 22014,2393.
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The United States already spends more on the military than the next seven countries combined, and maintains the most advanced fighting force in the world.
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To the west of the federal police, Iraq's counterterrorism service, the country's premier fighting force, has been moving north toward the former Ghazlani military base.
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Robert B. Neller, said the online harassment was a symptom of a broader cultural problem that threatens to undermine the foundation of the fighting force.
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So big terrorist attacks, like the one on the Nairobi complex, are a way for the group to show it's still a powerful fighting force.
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Four American servicemen were killed in a terrorist attack earlier this month in Niger — one of the Sahel countries who are part of the fighting force.
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As they retreated, IS leaders hid weapons caches and millions of dollars in the vast Syrian desert, and reconstituted their movement as a guerrilla fighting force.
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Having two Marine generals in those top jobs would be highly unusual for a service that prides itself on being the most elite U.S. fighting force.
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This has long spawned speculation that the SFO, tasked with investigating and prosecuting the most complex corruption, will be rolled into a broader crime fighting force.
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Freshly retaken from the Islamic State by the Peshmerga, the fighting force of the Kurdish regional government, it has become another town destroyed by the fighting.
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"I strongly support our men and women in uniform, who are the greatest fighting force in the world and the guardians of American freedom," Trump wrote.
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For the first time this year, the Department of Sanitation is deploying its full snow-fighting force, starting with 689 salt spreaders across the five boroughs.
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And yet, the most fantastic fighting force in world history1 is shelling out millions to fix the hulls on a brand new class of high speed transport.
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The Amaleqa brigades, a fighting force backed by the coalition that includes the UAE, said it seized areas on the west and east sides of the airport.
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In 20 years, Mr Putin has turned Russia's armed forces from an ill-managed bunch of poorly equipped conscripts into a well-armed, largely professional fighting force.
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Threats are closing in from all sides and all she's really got left is her limitless capacity for vengeance and the loyalty of an armed fighting force.
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Trump announced in December that the U.S. would soon reduce its fighting force in Syria, surprising allies and prompting the departure of then-Defense Secretary James Mattis.
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Beijing's enhanced nuclear capability is one of the hallmarks of Chinese leader Xi Jinping's ambitious revamping of the People's Liberation Army (PLA), the world's largest fighting force.
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Iraq's premier fighting force, the counterterrorism service, joined the assault on Thursday and committed all 14 of its fighting battalions to capturing the former Ghazlani military base.
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The appearance of eight Chinese defense firms among the top 25 comes as China invests heavily to upgrade its military and build a world-class fighting force.
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On the Houthi/Ansar Allah side, the fighting force is far less complicated and mostly highly responsive to orders from their leaders — in this case, totally Yemeni.
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Its fighting force, drawn from the western town of Misrata, is much the same as the one that backed the old western government and battled Mr Haftar.
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The People's Liberation Army — the bedrock of Communist power since the revolution — has actually shrunk in order to free up resources for a more modern fighting force.
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But he cautions that the risk of another Somalia is real, and he estimates that there may be two million Yemenis in one fighting force or another.
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The Golden Company was founded by a legitimized Targaryen bastard — Ser Aegor Rivers, known as Bittersteel — as a fighting force to support rebellions against the Iron Throne.
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Brett Sylvia, the commander of Task Force Strike in Baghdad, said the unit was "a very effective fighting force" and had recently been advised by American officers.
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The Royal Marines, known as green berets, are Britain's elite amphibious fighting force and are routinely deployed to some of the most dangerous conflicts in the world.
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The agreement asks the YPG or SDF -- an American-backed fighting force made up largely of the YPG -- to make concessions outside of the current area of conflict.
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In November, Hadi named Rouzek head of the Taiz Operations Rooms, coordinating the military campaign, and top commander of a new fighting force, the 5th Presidential Protection Battalion.
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While working in Iraq, I've also heard stories of the Peshmerga—the fighting force of the Kurdish regional government—committing their own outrages in areas under their control.
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By then end of 2018, the Army wants to maintain a fighting force of 476,000 active duty soldiers, 343,000 soldiers in the National Guard, and 199,000 Reserve soldiers.
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Look for Carter's speech, titled "Dulling the Edge: How Congress Risks Undermining the Finest Fighting Force the World Has Ever Known," to be another salvo in that fight.
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"But the ISF have proven they are both a professional and formidable fighting force and I have every confidence that ISIL's days are numbered in Iraq," he said.
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However, there is an exponential leap from deploying the military to help secure the border and deploying the military, the country's fighting force, to actually construct a wall.
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Also, according to the Global Firepower Index, the Venezuelan military is the 45th-strongest in the world, no match for the U.S., but still a significant fighting force.
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"In uniform, I learned that when Americans from different backgrounds are brought together for a common purpose, we form the strongest fighting force in the world," said Buttigieg.
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Kurdish officials said Iraqi government forces and Iranian-backed militia attacked positions of the Kurdish peshmerga fighting force on two fronts south of Kirkuk, using U.S. military equipment.
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Hezbollah is firmly entrenched in the Lebanese body politic and has grown into a regionwide fighting force on behalf of Iran, undercutting U.S. efforts to roll back Iranian influence.
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Today the Soviet Union is no more, and the United States has only about a 10th of the permanent fighting force in Europe that it had 42 years ago.
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As one put it this week, "Our job is to be an efficient fighting force, not a lab for social experiments or a battleground in this country's cultural wars."
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DoD's proposed policy is based on professional military judgment and will ensure that the U.S. Armed Forces remain the most lethal and combat effective fighting force in the world.
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It's possible that ISIS will grow in numbers and eventually surround a small American fighting force that will have to fight terrorists to keep the oil away from them.
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Another Taiz commander — Adnan Rouzek, who was recently given $12 million by Yemen&aposs president for his fighting force — has a known al-Qaida figure as his closest aide.
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Ankara says the attack was jointly carried out by a member of the YPG, the Kurdish fighting force in Syria, and PKK members based in Turkey, according to Anadolu.
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In a televised speech, Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah said the elections produced a Parliament that could protect the group's "strategic choices," an apparent reference to the party's fighting force.
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It is critical that DoD be permitted to implement personnel policies that it determines are necessary to ensure the most lethal and combat effective fighting force in the world.
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Democrats criticized the briefing, saying that it provided no new information and failed to convince them that Iran's foreign fighting force was preparing an imminent attack against U.S. interests.
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The group controls nearly 25 percent of the Taliban's fighting force and hardliners, operating almost independently with its own centralized decision body, military sub-commands, local alliances and funding.
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His goal is to transform the army into a leaner, more advanced fighting force capable of defending China's territorial claims, blunting American military superiority and projecting Chinese influence globally.
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His plan, known as "220-214-226-25.2," would require NATO to assemble a fighting force of 73 land battalions, 27 aircraft squadrons and 27 warships within 27 days.
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"We will remain the world's premier fighting force, respected by our friends and feared by our adversaries," Milley said during his remarks, adding thanks to Trump for his leadership.
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The risk of the president's penchant for pardoning war criminals is that the world's most disciplined and professional fighting force may soon be widely seen as an armed mob.
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For the first time this year, the New York City Department of Sanitation is deploying its full snow-fighting force, starting with 689 salt spreaders across the five boroughs.
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Military officials describe the Kurdish element of that coalition — known as the Kurdish People's Protection Unit, or the YPG — as by far the most effective fighting force within the group.
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Sure, once the Saviors are awakened (after one who's gotten up in the middle of the night stumbles upon the Alexandrians and sounds the alarm), they're a formidable fighting force.
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"The Chinese military should modernize its buildup and management and focus on becoming an elite fighting force that uses digital technologies, President Xi Jinping said on Wednesday" per China Daily.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's Prince Harry on Thursday presented the Royal Air Force's ground fighting force with a new "Colour", or standard, as part of celebrations for the regiment's 75th anniversary.
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U.S. troops now in South Korea are under the command of a U.S. general who also heads the United Nations Command - the only active U.N. fighting force in the world.
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"In a larger sense [compulsory military training] provides an opportunity to popularize the Army with our people which is essential for an efficient fighting force," the secretary of war said.
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Reuters reports that at least 25 people, half of whom were were members of Iran's Revolutionary Guard, the country's elite fighting force, were slain in the attack by four gunmen.
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Ankara considers the Kurdish fighters as terrorists connected to outlawed Turkish Kurdish separatists, while Washington sees them as the most effective native fighting force on the ground in the Syria.
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Under some proposals, a safe zone would also be a haven for "moderate" rebels, a place where the US could train and equip a more effective anti-Assad fighting force.
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Many describe them as the most effective fighting force on the ground, and a reliable ally of the U.S., despite the complications this alliance has caused with NATO ally Turkey.
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The U.S. considers the YPG to be a separate organization, and as an effective fighting force against ISIS, too valuable an operational ally to exclude from the fight against ISIS.
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As the Kerensky offensive demonstrated, the Russian Army, while demoralized, was still an effective fighting force, and the front line was far closer to the territory of the Central Powers.
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The Amaleqa brigades, a fighting force backed by the coalition that includes the UAE, also said in a statement they seized areas on the west and east sides of the airport.
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And we will see trillions of government revenue, and we will use that revenue to rebuild this military so it remains the mightiest fighting force on the face of the planet.
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Some 1,300 Hezbollah guerrillas had been killed and almost another 5,000 wounded in Syria, out of a regular fighting force of 20,000 and a reservist force of 20,000-25,000, Eizenkot said.
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Chinese President Xi Jinping has announced a military restructure of the People's Liberation Army (PLA) to transform it into a leaner fighting force with improved joint operations capability, state media said.
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But since it began ceding power in 2011 - albeit under a constitution that keeps soldiers in key posts - the army has sought to burnish its image as a modern fighting force.
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"It is critical that DoD be permitted to implement personnel policies that it determines are necessary to ensure the most lethal and combat effective fighting force in the world," Gleason said.
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Turkey remains vehemently opposed to US cooperation with Kurdish groups in Syria that Ankara says are linked to terrorists but Washington sees as the most effective fighting force on the ground.
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The allies agreed to a NATO Readiness Initiative, which would allow the group to assemble a fighting force of 229 land battalions, 20143 aircraft squadrons and 22014 warships within 22008 days.
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The attack took place near Manbij in northern Syria, and is believed to have been carried out by remnants of the Islamic State fighting force, a senior American military official said.
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His command has the tough mission of "providing leadership, doctrinal guidance, resources and oversight" to an organization that is considered by many the best small-unit fighting force in the world.
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If the country and the region continue to be actively destabilized by Pakistan and Iran the nation and the Afghan military is unlikely to ever be a stable, formidable fighting force.
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Xi has been driving an unprecedented military overhaul since he took the helm in 2012, with the ambition of transforming the People's Liberation Army into a nimble and modern fighting force.
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But President-elect Donald Trump has a chance to use a crucial cabinet position to put a woman in charge of the greatest military fighting force in the history of the world.
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Importantly, we have also learned that the National Guard is more than simply a critical component of our nation's fighting force -- it is also the connective tissue bridging the civil-military divide.
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Mohamad is a former member of the Kurdish Parliament who fought with the Peshmerga, the fighting force of Iraqi Kurdistan, in the bloody decade leading up to the creation of the KRG.
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In May 2017, Trump angered Turkey after he approved a plan to arm the Syrian Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG) — the dominate fighting force in the SDF — in the campaign against ISIS.
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The eventual assault into Mosul will be carried out by Iraq's counterterrorism service, whose commandos have been trained by American Special Forces and are the country's most reliable and proficient fighting force.
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Mayor believes that it was this method of fighting, combined with their nomadic lifestyle and the need for highly skilled riders, that led to this inclusion of women in the fighting force.
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The Syrian Kurds, who are a major belligerent in the conflict, and considered by many to be the most effective fighting force against the Islamic State, have been excluded from the talks.
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Brown projected that hundreds of slaves would cast down their chains and join the small force on the first night and that he would have a nice little fighting force by dawn.
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You can't dance, you can't play, and you can't talk with your family... That's where my youth went' Women make up about a third of the FARC's fighting force but pregnancy is forbidden.
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What's worse, the troubling development adds to a growing list of scandals the SEAL community has found itself embroiled in recently that have begun to tarnish the image of the elite fighting force.
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BEIJING (Reuters) - Chinese President Xi Jinping has announced a military restructure of the People's Liberation Army (PLA) to transform it into a leaner fighting force with improved joint operations capability, state media said.
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U.S. prosecutors said Gregory Hubbard, 52, was arrested on Thursday at Miami International Airport, where he planned to fly to Germany on his way to Syria to join the militant group's fighting force.
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We talked to Janeshia Adams-Ginyard at LAX -- she plays a member of the Dora Milaje in the movie -- and asked her to put together her real-life version of the fighting force.
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"Our aim as a clan is to create an effective and disciplined fighting force with standardized techniques that allow our members to operate together without friction," Dev, the commanding officer of DevGru says.
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Although the Nusra Front was widely seen as an effective fighting force against Mr. Assad's troops, its Qaeda affiliation made it impossible for the Obama administration to provide direct support for the group.
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"These letters put to bed once and for all the silly speculation that a few birds could hamstring the greatest fighting force in the history of the world," Grijalva said in a statement.
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Baghdadi's death is likely to cause Islamic State to splinter, leaving whoever emerges as its new leader with the task of pulling the group back together as a fighting force, according to analysts.
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We understand the value of a highly disciplined, well-equipped, experienced fighting force to defend against foreign invaders or to help out when civilian authorities are overwhelmed by domestic violence or natural disasters.
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By supporting the advance on Raqqa, American officials are sweeping aside objections from Turkey and moving forward with plans to rely on a ground fighting force that includes Kurdish militia fighters in Syria.
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The crisis forces William to question his avaricious ways, motivated in part by the lovely Commander Lin (Jing Tian), who leads a battalion of female soldiers in what's a surprisingly forward-thinking fighting force.
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Afghanistan is not an example of the United States, Britain and Canada splitting up beaches in Normandy; it is an example of an alliance with a fighting force and those who are lesser than.
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Finally, targeting the Nusra Front could end up boosting the popularity of the al Qaeda affiliate, which is widely hailed by anti-government Syrians as the most effective fighting force seeking to oust Assad.
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Au contraire, Chad's troops have for some time served as an effective ally in the region -- the best fighting force deployed in nearby Niger and Mali, with the best intel and best-trained warriors.
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Our nation's leading and most critical disease fighting force — the CDC — is facing budget cliffs and cuts that would make Americans less safe by devastating initiatives that protect Americans from diseases, disasters, and epidemics.
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With the arrest of the powerful prince in charge of the kingdom's most effective fighting force, the praetorian National Guard, MbS now controls all of Saudi Arabia's most powerful political, economic, and security institutions.
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After the samurai form their team, the middle of the film is devoted to exploring their growing relationship with the villagers, as they train them to become a defensive fighting force and slowly bond.
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" He also touted Britain's military technology, saying new warships, aircraft, missiles and drones were being developed that would ensure it remained "a lethal fighting force fully adapted to the demands of 21st-century warfare.
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It's encouraging to see Congress do its work instead of jumping into a fight about drafting our mothers, sisters, and daughters when the military isn't demanding an end to our all-volunteer fighting-force.
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Despite significant strides to address Boko Haram as a fighting force, violent extremism remains a major challenge in addition to other growing tensions between and among communities along social, ethnic, religious and economic lines.
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Why it matters: Generation Z largely views of the military as a fighting force doing most of its work abroad, given that many in its ranks came of age after the September 11 attacks.
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While FARC once controlled an area the size of Switzerland, its fighting force has been rapidly diminished as the Colombian government, aided by the US, pushed back on the fighting throughout the 1990s and 2000s.
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The U.N. panel said the National Security Service "has emerged as a significant and parallel fighting force able to operate outside the rule of law and the framework for the implementation of the peace agreement".
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At home, Xi has taken down senior leaders in his anti-corruption drive, launched an unprecedented crackdown on free speech, and radically overhauled the two-million strong People's Liberation Army, the world's largest fighting force.
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The U.S. armed forces today are the single greatest fighting force in the history of the world, able to project power in every corner of the globe (and unfortunately all too prone to do so).
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In addition to his focus on corruption, since taking power in 2012 Xi has launched an unprecedented crackdown on free speech and dissidents, and radically overhauled the People's Liberation Army, the world's largest fighting force.
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The U.S. military is the most powerful and effective fighting force the world has ever seen—but combat troops are stymied by restrictive rules of engagement that result in missed opportunities and missions without end.
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Before America's entrance in World War II, our army was on par with Portugal The greatest generation was able to give us the greatest fighting force on the face of the earth on short notice.
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His commander in chief was, essentially, ordering him to abandon the fighting force — the Syrian Kurds — that had been the most effective in working with the American military in the fight against the Islamic State.
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BEIRUT (Reuters) - A Syrian insurgent group said on Friday it had merged with a number of other rebel groups around Aleppo province to become a stronger fighting force in the country's five-year-old civil war.
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Established in 1964 and funded by kidnapping, extortion and cocaine trafficking, the FARC grew to a fighting force of 20,000 by 1999 when it reached the mountains above the capital, Bogota, and threatened to seize power.
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With active military service at an all-time low -- now only 0.4% of the American population -- this registration system would allow the United States to raise a fighting force in case of urgent and catastrophic need.
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From racial integration to opening up career paths to women, decade by decade the military has, by necessity of wanting to recruit and retain the best possible fighting force, been at the vanguard of progressive progress.
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The security forces have been buoyed by victories against the group in Falluja and Ramadi, but face an additional challenge as Iraqi officials squabble over the composition of the fighting force for Mosul, Iraqi officials said.
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"The government's fighting force today consists of a dizzying array of hyper-local militias aligned with various factions, domestic and foreign sponsors, and local warlords," said one analyst, Tobias Schneider, in recently summing up the situation.
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Despite the activation of the new unit and the hardware supporting it, Japan's marines are far from being an effective fighting force, according to Grant Newsham, senior research fellow at the Japan Forum for Strategic Studies.
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While mayor of Newark, NJ, Booker bolstered community relations and school initiatives to prevent crime while simultaneously bringing in Gerry McCarthy from the NYPD to make the Newark Police a more efficient, effective crime-fighting force.
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Here we have the greatest fighting force for good the world has ever known struggling to make ends meet, and before Democrats consented to increasing military spending by even one dime, they extracted a massive price.
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For now, the country's primary fighting force is a 22,000-strong African Union (AU) contingent that has been protecting the country's fledgling government in Mogadishu, and working to wrest control of south back from al-Shabaab.
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They explained that the film takes place 10 years after Guillermo del Toro's 2013 original, and that the Pan Pacific Defense Corps has been redesigned from the ground up to work together as an international fighting force.
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"The Defense Department and the military need to avail ourselves of all talent possible in order to remain what we are now -- the finest fighting force the world has ever known," Carter said Thursday at the Pentagon.
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"The Defense Department and the military need to avail ourselves of all talent possible in order to remain what we are now — the finest fighting force the world has ever known," Carter said Thursday from the Pentagon.
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Erdogan said last week he could accept Syrian forces entering Manbij as long as the Kurdish YPG militia, which is the main fighting force in the SDF and is considered a terrorist group by Ankara, was removed.
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The secretary added that the U.S. is still working with the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) — the U.S.-trained fighting force made up of Syrian Kurdish fighters, Arabs and Christians — in the mission to counter the Islamic State.
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Both Iraq and the Kurds are critical US allies in an oil-rich and strategically important region, with the Kurds providing what's widely seen as the most capable fighting force in the battle against the terror group.
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At the heart of the Field of the Cloth of Gold was an attempt, by both men, to simultaneously express their kingly kinship and to more implicitly demonstrate to the other the might of his fighting force.
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They had fled their home in Surt, the Islamic State's Libyan stronghold, three weeks earlier as a Libyan fighting force, quietly supported by American and British Special Operations troops, swept toward the coastal city from the desert.
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Having two brothers who served, I know well the sacrifices made by members of our Armed Forces, and I will continue working to ensure our military is the best trained and equipped fighting force in the world.
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In announcing that the fight to retake Raqqa is imminent, American officials are sweeping aside objections from Turkey and moving forward with plans to rely on a ground fighting force that includes Kurdish militia fighters in Syria.
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A crucial fighting force in the battle for Mosul and other areas liberated from the Islamic State was provided by paramilitary groups that receive supplies and support from Iran, and cross the Iran-Iraq border at will.
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It is the application of our collective intelligence -- our uniqueness coming together to fulfill our duty to provide the nation with the most effective and lethal fighting force we have the capacity to employ on the battlefield.
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Karachi is a sprawling, chaotic city of some twenty-two million people, riven by ethnic strife and gang wars; its main crime-fighting force, the Pakistan Rangers, patrols the streets in pickups mounted with heavy machine guns.
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The militants' basic strategy appears to be to focus much of their efforts on blunting the CTS attack, calculating that if they can stymie Iraq's most experienced fighting force, the Iraqi government's broader offensive will bog down.
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While the United States should not give up on its goal of developing a fully capable Afghan fighting force, it is prudent to assume that it may take longer than the nation is able to ultimately stomach.
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And the US's NATO ally Turkey -- while deeply unhappy with the US decision to back northern Syrian Kurds as the most effective fighting force against ISIS -- largely kept their unhappiness on mute while the ISIS battle raged.
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"Our cadets and midshipmen must be role models if they're to lead the world's finest fighting force," James Stewart, who is performing the duties of under secretary of defense for personnel and readiness, said in a statement.
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Russia's robotic military investments have been described as a "priority" according to local newspapers and a US general even said in 2014 said that a quarter of the military's fighting force could be robotic by the year 2030.
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Campaigns of XCOM: Enemy Unknown always seemed to have a turning point, a time by which you'd either been mercilessly slaughtered by the invading aliens, or you'd turned your ragged group of soldiers into an elite fighting force.
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"More than half a century of history and research has made clear that an inclusive military that prioritizes talent and ability over social judgment and personal prejudice is an essential ingredient of an effective fighting force," they said.
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NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, also speaking to CNBC in Munich, said that he had concern over the "so many foreign fighters" who were trying to return home now that ISIS had collapsed as a major fighting force.
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Which isn't to say they shirked their duty; in fact, South Korean troops quickly earned a reputation as a ferocious fighting force — and found themselves, like Americans, mired in a people's war with an entrenched and motivated enemy.
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As the world's biggest fighting force with more than 2 million troops, modernising has been a top priority for China's military over the past two decades, including the development of a blue-water navy that can operate globally.
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"This commandant is like his predecessors in so many ways, especially when it comes to caring for his Marines and ensuring they're the most effective fighting force in the world," Hunter said in an op-ed for Fox News.
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The main fighting force, of which it is estimated that only a few dozen militants remain, is mostly comprised of members of the Maute group, a local militant group which has also pledged loyalty to the Syrian-based group.
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With what Johnson describes as "political shock and awe," Xi has taken down senior leaders in his anti-corruption drive, launched an unprecedented crackdown on free speech, and radically overhauled the People's Liberation Army, the world's largest fighting force.
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Ultimately military service is about people, and it is how we take care of those people and their families that determine how the most powerful, most professional all-volunteer fighting force this world has ever seen will be sustained.
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Chinese President Xi Jinping pledged in October last year to turn China's military into a world-class fighting force by 2050, and has made new technology development a key policy plank, investing in stealth fighters, aircraft carriers and missiles.
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Baghdadi's death at the hands of the United States is likely to cause Islamic State to splinter, leaving whoever emerges as its new leader with the task of pulling the ultra hardline group back together as a fighting force.
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Among the issues that Chinese military planners must deal with is how to handle the retrenchment of 300,000 personnel announced by President Xi Jinping in 2015, part of an effort to streamline the P.L.A. into a modern fighting force.
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World leaders will be acutely tuned in to the leader of the world's most powerful (and most costly) fighting force, who on Friday vowed to kick off one "greatest military buildups in American history" at the Conservative Political Action Conference.
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Depending on progress in arming and training the full Syrian Democratic Forces -- a local fighting force -- in the coming months, the Pentagon could put several US brigade-sized combat teams on the ground, each team perhaps as many as 4,000 troops.
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It wields a significant military presence on the ground in Yemen, where it's trained and supported southern separatist groups in the war-ravaged country as a fighting force against al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) and Yemen's Houthi rebels.
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It is a moment of absolute trust from a warrior who is supposed to be immune to such concerns; the singular focus is the reason the Unsullied are supposed to be such a fabled fighting force in the first place.
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A popular section of the Beijing exhibition is devoted to Xi's pledge to transform China's military into a world-class fighting force, including a display of model missile launchers, battleships and the Liaoning aircraft carrier, all under a giant red flag.
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"When we employ military force, we must use it judiciously, because we have learned — from Vietnam to Iraq — that even the finest fighting force on earth cannot defeat the underlying political, economic and sectarian forces that fuel conflict," she said.
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Gonzales has created a superheroic fighting force of the kind we've grown so used to through constant exposure to the Avengers and various iterations of the X-Men, and then he has turned out their pockets and flipped open their diaries.
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The Blu-ray release includes tons of deleted scenes and gag reels, as well as bonus features such as a look into the actors behind Wakanda's fighting force — the Dora Milaje — as well as an exploration of Wakanda's vibranium technology.
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Instead, Doc took his place in the long, scarred line of living exhibits showing how the American military was rushing gravely wounded troops from the battlefield and treating them with skills and confidence no American fighting force had known before.
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"Consistent with this new policy, we are asking the courts to lift all related preliminary injunctions in order to ensure the safety and security of the American people and the best fighting force in the world," it said in a statement.
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In addition to Hezbollah's decisive role in helping President Bashar al-Assad of Syria hold on to power, Iran has supported several militias in Iraq that have managed to defeat Islamic State forces in that country and remain a fighting force.
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As the South Koreans have become a premier fighting force — with their own special operations forces, the ability to oppose the North's artillery along the Demilitarized Zone and now their own cyberforces — they have become less dependent on the United States.
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Obama was always deeply dubious of the rebel's ability to be an effective fighting force, arguing that the moderate opposition was made up of "former doctors, farmers, pharmacists" going up against a well-armed state backed by Russia, Iran and Hezbollah.
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While the YPG has been the most effective fighting force on the ground against ISIS and a huge help to the US-led campaign, Turkey sees them as indistinguishable from Kurdish groups within its borders that it's been battling for years.
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" His speech was interrupted by raucous applause on several occasions, including when he said that one of his core convictions as commander in chief was "that we are and must remain the strongest fighting force the world has ever known.
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An untold number of people are still being held by Boko Haram, a group that routinely kills boys and men for refusing to join, conscripts others into its fighting force and turns women and girls into sex slaves and suicide bombers.
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Few would argue that Greece, which meets the goal partly because its economy has collapsed, has a more effective fighting force than Norway, which devotes a large share of its 1.5% to R&D and sends hundreds of troops to places like Afghanistan.
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ABOARD JS KAGA (Reuters) - Women serving on Japan's biggest warship, the Kaga, are a tight-knit group on the frontline of a push to transform the Japanese navy into a mixed-gender fighting force, where men outnumber them more than 2900 to one.
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New SFO director Lisa Osofsky has pledged to take on the "big guys" since she took the helm in August, a year after the elite investigator and prosecutor narrowly avoided a government push to roll it into a broader crime-fighting force.
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Instead, the announcement came in the face of Turkish threats to launch a full-scale offensive against the Syrian Kurds, and flatly leaves a valiant fighting force, who gave thousands of lives to rid the region of ISIS's Caliphate, naked in the desert.
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Also speaking at the Munich Security Conference Saturday was NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg who told CNBC that he had concern over the "so many foreign fighters" who were trying to return home now that ISIS had collapsed as a major fighting force.
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A Turkish military convoy traveling to resupply troops came under aerial attack first, and then a building where the troops were based was struck, Abu Yahya, a senior official of the Turkish-backed Syrian fighting force in Idlib Province, said in an interview.
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"He ought to recognize that we have the best fighting force on the face of the Earth and we ought to do nothing to undermine what our men and women in uniform are doing right now for the United States," he continued.
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Turkish troops will be part of a combined training and fighting force to support the United Nations-backed Government of National Accord led by Prime Minister Fayez al-Serraj in Tripoli, which has been under attack for months by forces from eastern Libya.
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The Pentagon's Africa Command now wants to shift from a counterinsurgency operation against the guerrilla group to building African defense institutions and a more narrow pursuit of Mr. Kony, whose fighting force has dwindled to about 22004 soldiers from a peak of 0003,2000.
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As the President said, we don't want war with anybody, but the United States is prepared -- we're locked and loaded," Pence said, as he described the US military as the "best equipped, best trained and most technologically advanced fighting force in the world.
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Jennifer Sims, former captain in the US army and veteran of Afghanistan While VetTV accurately mirrors some of the humor that permeates the services, military leadership long ago realized that much of this humor does not have a place in the fighting force.
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HTS, which commands somewhere in the neighborhood of 212,218 to 216,29 fighters, is the most powerful fighting force in the rebel-held province of Idlib in northwest Syria and has long been one of the most effective fighting forces in the Syrian civil war.
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He then became a member of a specialized fighting force within al Shabaab known as Jaysh Ayman that carried out attacks and raids across the border in Kenya and participated in a battle against Kenyan soldiers in the Somali town of Afmadow, prosecutors said.
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The new US general in charge of the US war against IS has said the US and its allies intend to take Raqqa by next August — and the US is depending on its Kurdish allies to comprise the main ground fighting force in the effort.
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House Speaker Paul Ryan said the $1.3 trillion, defense-friendly omnibus bill heading for a vote Thursday will create a "21st century fighting force" in the U.S. Why it matters: The bill allocates $700 billion to defense funding for updated equipment and increases in staff.
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The USS Abraham Lincoln, with its contingent of Navy destroyers and cruisers and a fighting force of about 513 aircraft, is the centerpiece of the Pentagon's response to what it calls Iranian threats to attack US forces or commercial shipping in the Persian Gulf region.
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The battle sequence at Fort Forlorn Hope, where Dolores and her newly acquired Confederado fighting force finally square off against Delos's heavily armed human mercenaries, should be the kind of thrilling human-versus-robot showdown the show has led us to anticipate from the beginning.
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For that to happen, the Afghan security forces, which had close to 20,000 casualties last year, would need to hold their ground, and the Taliban, estimated to have a fighting force of about 30,000 right now, would also need to keep taking heavy casualties.
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This fighting force, comprised of four ships, roughly 4,20173 sailors and Marines, as well as helicopters, Osprey vertical takeoff and landing aircraft, and F-35 stealth fighter jets, is scheduled to participate in annual joint military exercises in South Korea in the coming weeks.
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"Our military is the most effective, efficient and well-funded fighting force in the world, and as the president notes, we cannot burden our armed forces with the tremendous costs and disruptions that transgender in the military would entail," Hartzler said in a statement Wednesday.
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After all, with the help of Iran, the militia is in the midst of battling ISIS forces in Iraq alongside the Iraqi army and the Peshmerga, the fighting force of the Kurdish Regional Government—both of which are being assisted and trained by the United States.
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"When I announced my decision back in December to open all career fields to qualified women, I emphasized that the implementation of this change must be handled the right way, because the combat effectiveness of the world's finest fighting force is paramount," he said in a statement.
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"[Trump] sent me here today on this historic occasion as a sign of his deep commitment to the Armed Forces of the United States of America, and to his commitment to make the strongest fighting force in the world even stronger still," Pence said during the christening.
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The prime minister's announcement heralded a significant turnaround for the nation's armed forces and political leadership from the summer of 2014, when the military, hollowed out by years of corruption and inept political decisions, crumbled under the juggernaut of the Islamic State's once-formidable fighting force.
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That background of insurgency rooted in backwater parts of the Arab world's poorest state forged the group into a strong fighting force but gave it few skilled politicians, intellectuals or technocrats — a weakness glaringly apparent during a recent visit by New York Times journalists in Sana.
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It is into this powder keg that the U.S. has inserted itself with the stated aim of defeating AQAP, seeking to do so by indirectly backing yet another faction: a UAE-trained fighting force made up entirely of men from Hadramawt, a province in southeastern Yemen.
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Trump campaigned on a promise to speed up the fight against ISIS and defeat the group, which would require the help of the fierce fighting force of Kurds called the YPG -- which Erdogan sees as an extension of Turkish Kurds that are at war with Turkey right now.
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The Kurdish haven in the middle of Syria's war The United States, on the other hand, draws a distinction between the YPG and the banned PKK, providing significant support to the Syrian Kurdish group as a critical fighting force against ISIS and other Islamist groups in volatile northern Syria.
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Created 150 years ago as a fighting force that distinguished itself in a series of wars, the unit is now purely ceremonial in function, codifying in its dress and routine a popular conception of Greekness that evolved since the modern Greek state was formed nearly two centuries ago.
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Related: Syria's Kurds Have Nearly Tripled Their Territory Fighting the Islamic State in 2015 The Kurds in Syria created their own constitution in 2014, and the YPG Kurdish fighting force has become a major ally of the United States in its campaign against the Islamic State in Syria.
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DoD's proposed policy is NOT a ban on service by transgender persons," the Pentagon said in a statement, adding that the policy was based on "professional military judgment and will ensure that the U.S. Armed Forces remain the most lethal and combat effective fighting force in the world.
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TRUMP: They continue to just go forward and here we are talking about Syria, we're talking about a lot of serious things with the greatest fighting force ever, and I have this witch hunt constantly going on for over 12 months now, and actually much more than that.
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The taxpayer-funded SFO defied its critics, who have accused it of failing to pursue top executives and companies, by criminally charging Barclays Plc and four senior bankers in 2017, one month after the ruling Conservative Party pledged to roll the agency into a broader crime-fighting force.
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The local US allies have proven to be an effective fighting force against ISIS and have also helped check Assad and Iran's presence in eastern Syria, with Russia and the US negotiating an agreed-upon "de-confliction" line to separate Russian-backed regime troops and US-backed forces.
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Vice President Joe Biden gave this argument its purest expression on Wednesday night, in a full-throated argument for a proud, liberal nationalism that explicitly catered to the self-image of working-class people who already considered themselves "real Americans": We have the finest fighting force in the world.
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It was a compelling example of America's enduring importance on the world stage: Donald Trump is not the only bad dude with a terrifying fighting force at his disposal, but as president of a country that remains—just about—the most powerful and influential in the world, his election really matters.
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"When I announced my decision back in December to open all career fields to qualified women, I emphasized that the implementation of this change must be handled the right way, because the combat effectiveness of the world's finest fighting force is paramount," he said in a statement on March 10.
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Togo D. West Jr., who as secretary of the Army in the 1990s oversaw its wrenching post-Gulf War conversion to a truncated peacetime fighting force that granted women more combat roles and vowed to shield them from sexual abuse, died on Thursday on a cruise ship in the Caribbean.
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But it has steered clear of operations inside Lebanon where Hezbollah has its bases buried deep inside mountains, its political wing has several seats in the national legislature and three Cabinet posts, including the health ministry, and is by a wide margin the most potent fighting force in the country.
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"They knew that mobilizing and using anti-Balaka (Christian) groups fueled by vengeance and hatred of Muslims ... and transforming them into a formidable fighting force would, in the ordinary course of events, result in the violent targeting of the Muslim civilian population in western Central African Republic," the charge sheet said.
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According to Pence, Turkey has agreed to a 120-hour (five-day) ceasefire, during which time fighters in the YPG — the main Syrian Kurdish fighting force in the region that has helped the US fight ISIS for several years now — would withdraw from a 20-mile "safe zone" near the border with Turkey.
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"The blood and treasure of the most amazing fighting force ever created was not sacrificed in vain, because at the end of his tenure, the beginning of President Obama's tenure, there was a stable — a fragile but stable Iraq — because there was an adjustment in the policy and it worked," he said.
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Over the next 30 years, the French turned them into a first-rate fighting force, utterly allied to the Western anti-terrorist effort in the Sahel -- itself a desperately critical part of the success of our war against ISIS and against the spread of Islamic terrorism that is threatening to overrun Africa.
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Bigger battles are rising from the ashes of the war on ISIS Allies against ISIS Both Iraq and the Kurds are critical US allies in an oil-rich and strategically important region, with the Kurds providing what's widely seen as the most capable fighting force in the battle against the terror group.
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While President Rodrigo Duterte focused his energies during his first year in office on waging a brutal campaign against suspected drug dealers and users, a motley coalition supporting the Islamic State — former guerrillas, university students, scions of political families, Christian converts to Islam — grew into a fighting force with surprising staying power.
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And, perhaps equally importantly, Biden made a version of the "America is already great" argument that explicitly catered to the self-image of Americans who work in manufacturing jobs, join the military, and so forth — which includes white voters as well as people of color: We have the finest fighting force in the world.
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In addition to the standing ovation that greeted the entry of First Lady Michelle Obama, the other bipartisan applause moments came after his comments on cutting red tape and outdated regulations, when he announced Vice President Joe Biden would lead a cancer "moonshot" initiative and when he lauded the U.S. military as the finest fighting force in the world.
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On Thursday, Vice President Mike Pence and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan made a deal whereby Ankara agreed to a five-day ceasefire, during which time fighters in the YPG — the main Syrian Kurdish fighting force in the region that helped the US fight ISIS for years — would withdraw from a 20-mile "safe zone" near the Turkish border.
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"His decision last year to open all combat positions to qualified women only strengthens our All-Volunteer force by giving us access to 100-percent of America's population so we can recruit and retain the most qualified individuals who can meet our standards and remain the finest fighting force the world has ever known," Cook said.
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One Yemeni commander who was put on the U.S. terrorism list for Al Qaeda ties last year continues to receive money from the UAE to run his militia, his own aide told the AP. Another commander, recently granted $12 million for his fighting force by Yemen&aposs president, has a known Al Qaeda figure as his closest aide.
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One Yemeni commander who was put on the U.S. terrorism list for al-Qaida ties last year continues to receive money from the UAE to run his militia, his own aide told the AP. Another commander, recently granted $12 million for his fighting force by Yemen&aposs president, has a known al-Qaida figure as his closest aide.
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" In response to Trump's tweets this morning announcing the military ban, Hartzler said in a statement to CNN, "Our military is the most effective, efficient and well-funded fighting force in the world, and as the President notes, we cannot burden our armed forces with the tremendous costs and disruptions that transgender (sic) in the military would entail.
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It is Flynn's ties to Turkey that are emerging as the most immediate concern, with new evidence, first uncovered by McClatchy News and largely confirmed by CNN, that Flynn blocked a plan to launch a military assault against Raqqa, the capital of ISIS, by arming Kurdish fighters, the most effective, proven fighting force in the war against ISIS.
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The aim of these changes is twofold—to strengthen Mr Xi's grip on the 2.3m-strong armed forces, which are embarrassingly corrupt at the highest level, and to make the PLA a more effective fighting force, with a leadership structure capable of breaking down the barriers between rival commands that have long hampered its modernisation efforts.
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But the expenditure is not unreasonable: Not only is the U.S. military the finest fighting force in the world, with over 2 million men and women on active duty or in the National Guard or Reserves, it also has components that are basically a health care company, a global supply chain outfit, and a sizable retail operation.
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In his address, Mr. Cruz criticized both Mr. Obama and Hillary Clinton, a secretary of state in the Obama administration, and seemed to try to strike a balance between promising to be tough on national defense by increasing the size of the nation's fighting force, while also promising not to be to quick to intervene in conflicts around the globe.
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"His decision last year to open all combat positions to qualified women only strengthens our All-Volunteer force by giving us access to 100 percent of America's population so we can recruit and retain the most qualified individuals who can meet our standards and remain the finest fighting force the world has ever known," Cook said Friday in a statement to CNN.
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That's not only the seat of the third rival prime minister, Abdullah al-Thani, and the exiled House of Representatives, but also the base for the unilateral military campaign waged by controversial strongman Khalifa Haftar, an ex-general in Qaddafi's army who came back from US exile to lead a fighting force backed primarily by Egypt and the United Arab Emirates.
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President TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump pushes back on recent polling data, says internal numbers are 'strongest we've had so far' Illinois state lawmaker apologizes for photos depicting mock assassination of Trump Scaramucci assembling team of former Cabinet members to speak out against Trump MORE has spent the past few days slamming Macron's comments about the need for a European fighting force.
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"We have the greatest fighting force in the world, but we have asked them to do so much more with so much less for so long," Speaker Paul RyanPaul Davis RyanEmbattled Juul seeks allies in Washington Ex-Parkland students criticize Kellyanne Conway Latina leaders: 'It's a women's world more than anything' MORE (R-Wis.) told reporters before the vote Thursday.
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That is the minimum number of Special Operations forces, intelligence officers and support and security personnel that the Pentagon and C.I.A. believe are necessary to hold the capital, Kabul, battle militants of the Islamic State and advise an Afghan military that remains, at best, a fractured, inconsistent fighting force after close to two decades of training and billions of dollars in American and NATO investment.
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The first large-scale fire-fighting force recorded was the Vigiles Urbani (city watchmen) of Ancient Rome, who were pressed into action during the Great Fire of 64AD – a disaster laden with political implications, from speculation over its cause (the Emperor Nero was widely rumoured to have ordered the torching of the capital himself) to debates over reconstruction in the city, two-thirds of which was destroyed by the blaze.
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The U.S. had moved 10,000 troops into active malaria zones in the South Pacific, but because the Americans had far greater resources to fight malaria relative to the Japanese, they were able to stay a much healthier fighting force, he said In fact, said Patterson, malaria was such a concern for America during World War II, the military created extended malaria programs to monitor and prevent the disease.
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"I think what people should be more concerned about is the long-term impact to our United States military, we should be the most lethal fighting force in the world and we can't do that if we're not drawing from the pool of all of those who are qualified, capable and willing to serve," Jennifer Peace, who has served in U.S. military for more than 13 years, told Hill.
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But the mission to seize Raqqa has been seriously complicated by Turkey's vociferous objections to any effort by the United States to arm the People's Protection Units, a Kurdish militia in northern Syria known by its Kurdish initials, Y.P.G. American military officers have said that the Y.P.G. is the most capable Syrian fighting force and the best hope for mounting an attack to capture Raqqa in the coming weeks.
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Although we come from different disciplines — one of us was a general officer who commanded U.S. combat troops in Iraq and Afghanistan and the other was a career prosecutor and diplomat — we share a common interest in the preservation of the military justice system, the rules that serve as its foundation, and the role these two concepts have long played in making the U.S. military the most effective fighting force in world history.
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The lawmakers also want to know and whether the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) — the group the U.S. has partnered with in fighting ISIS — will remain a viable fighting force in the absence of a U.S. military presence in Syria, the actions the administration plans to take to ensure the safety of Syrian nationals who provided support to the coalition and the commitments, if any, that Turkey has extended with respect to fighting ISIS and refraining from military action against the Kurds.
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Last night Tyson was a guest on the Conan show, and host Conan O'Brien asked the former heavyweight boxing champion if he had any advice for former UFC bantamweight women's champion Ronda Rousey, who, like Tyson when he lost his belt to Buster Douglas back in 1990, recently suffered a knockout loss to a relatively unknown opponent after building a reputation as an invincible and indestructible fighting force, and who has spent much of the last two months in seclusion, hiding out, sources said, from the shame of defeat.
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Two years earlier the then-aimless college student, who was born in Pakistan before moving to the U.S. when he was 2, had joined the National Guard on the spur of the moment, looking for some direction and never thinking his unit would ever actually be sent to war, a safe bet considering the National Guard hadn't been used in combat since World War II. But by the spring of 2004, the insurgency was starting to heat up in Iraq, things were starting to look dicey for the American mission there, and the Pentagon needed more soldiers, which meant the National Guard, with its weekend training sessions, was all of a sudden an international fighting force.
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