Russia has long-held links to the Syrian military establishment as well.
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Their reward was thanks from a grateful military establishment—and college credit.
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The military establishment tried to destabilize every elected government in the 1990s.
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Leyen's frank demands for reform have upset many in the military establishment.
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The criticism of the Bundeswehr has rankled many in the military establishment.
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There's the standard military establishment, which in Venezuela consists of professional career soldiers.
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The speed of these developments, he finds, both excites and disturbs the military establishment.
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That adversarial voice was sometimes criticized by the military establishment as a hippie mindset.
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Yet Silicon Valley's culture is deeply influenced by skepticism about this same military establishment.
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Still, it could be confusing for travelers trying to avoid patronizing a military establishment.
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America's military establishment still firmly supports NATO and Mrs Merkel is far from anti-American.
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But he is considered by some commanders to be uncomfortably close to Pakistan's military establishment.
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And this time, too, Mr. Sharif and the military establishment differ over broad policy matters.
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It's now almost impossible to navigate the tourist quarter without bumping into a military establishment.
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Novichok was developed in the 1970s and '80s at the central Russian military establishment at Shikhany.
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They have infiltrated a lot of, uh, a lot of aspects of military establishment, particularly Area 51.
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The election is seen as a battle between Thaksin's populists and allies and the royalist-military establishment.
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He attempted to sack the army chief, alienating an already doubting military establishment and its ally, India.
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But although Pakistan nominally returned to civilian rule, there was no real oversight over the sprawling military establishment.
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In the run-up to the polls, media houses have complained of growing censorship by the military establishment.
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Reporters without Borders said in a statement last week that PEMRA, "takes its lead from the military establishment".
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As a result, three schools of thoughts have emerged within the military establishment over the past four decades.
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The army ousted Thaksin in 2006, exacerbating a sharp divide between his supporters and the royalist-military establishment.
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When asked whether he or the country's military establishment controls Pakistan, Mr. Khan said that they work closely.
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"Hillary is very fierce when it comes to China," a Chinese official close to the military establishment told Reuters.
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If this is so, then it may well be that Pakistan's military establishment looks the other way as Gen.
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"This conjunction of an immense military establishment and a large arms industry is new in the American experience," Eisenhower warned.
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The prospect of a trial appals Britain's military establishment, including veterans, who are a vocal group in the Conservative Party.
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Domestic priorities, set by Egypt's dominant military establishment, have also narrowed the horizons for Cairo's diplomacy, a Western diplomat said.
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Ranged against him is the royalist and military establishment, which accuses Thaksin of poisoning Thai politics with nepotism and corruption.
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Since ARVN's founding two decades earlier, the United States had assigned itself the task of professionalizing that fledgling military establishment.
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While well intentioned, frequent references to the military establishment may have the unintended consequence of further undermining the State Department.
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The country's security policy, which is dictated by the military establishment, has a deep-rooted "paranoia" about India, Javid says.
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This is just the latest in a series of shakeups in the US military establishment when it comes to space.
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Mr. Sharif became prime minister a second time in 1997, but his relationship with the military establishment had turned sour.
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Thaksin and his policies are popular in the country's northeast, but he is despised by the royalist and military establishment.
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Against Thaksin is the royalist and military establishment, which accuses him of poisoning politics with nepotism and corruption, charges he denies.
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Thailand has weathered more than a decade of political upheaval that has pitted the royalist-military establishment against populist political forces.
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At the center of most allegations is the powerful military establishment, along with its intelligence agency, known by the acronym ISI.
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Many residents and commentators say M.Q.M. should have chosen a different candidate after the military establishment showed resistance to Mr. Akhtar.
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Opposition parties say electoral laws written by the junta were designed to ensure continued control over politics by the military establishment.
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The military establishment turned on the Geo TV network, where Mir worked, and the Jang media group for maligning the ISI.
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The military establishment was also in favor of an all-volunteer army, because it removed the threat of genuinely mutinous draftees.
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For years, the Pakistani military establishment used Lashkar-e-Taiba and other militant groups as proxy forces against India in Kashmir.
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Ranged against him is the royalist and military establishment, which accuses Thaksin of poisoning politics with nepotism and corruption, charges he denies.
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Sharif has accused Khan of being a puppet of the powerful military establishment that has a history of meddling in Pakistani politics.
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The military establishment welcomed an open-ended commitment based on conditions on the ground, although they remained wary of an impulsive president.
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Veterans of Britain's military establishment have been warning of a palpable strategic threat from Russia for which Her Majesty's forces are ill-prepared.
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During these four decades, Pakistan's military establishment has convinced the nation that a permanent war is not such a bad thing after all.
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I don't think that you're hearing a lot of American policymakers or the military establishment being very alarmist about the Islamic State in Afghanistan.
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Pitted against Thaksin and his allies is the royalist and military establishment which accused him of nepotism and abuse of power, accusations he denied.
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That pedigree plays well with the majority, also Burmese and Buddhist, and acts as a bridge to her former foes in the military establishment.
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Thailand is divided between his supporters in the poorer north and northeast and the traditional royalist-military establishment in the capital and the south.
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Candidates from the Pakistan Muslim League–N party have accused the military establishment of targeting the party and working to divide its vote base.
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And the military establishment that has so obviously shown its hand in propping him up is losing a reverence it once thought was unquestionable.
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He has always advocated avoiding confrontation with the military establishment and the judiciary, and is campaigning primarily on the record of his party's governance.
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"It is public knowledge that the military establishment is annoyed with Taha's Twitter activity," said Iqbal Khattack, the Pakistan representative for Reporters Sans Frontieres.
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He's been faced with a coup and this goes to show he doesn't control everything and he doesn't maintain full power over the military establishment.
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Mr. Lieberman's ties with Israel's own military establishment are frayed, most recently by his defense of an Israeli soldier arrested for executing a wounded Palestinian.
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That means when you enter a shop in Cuba to purchase a bottle of water, soda or beer, you probably are patronizing a military establishment.
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But when it comes to husbanding the billions of taxpayer dollars that pay for the vast military establishment, defense leaders have had less exacting standards.
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Biden played up his faith in the military establishment and his place in the Obama White House, which negotiated the Iran nuclear deal in 2015.
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Observers say that the newly-elected Khan was heavily supported by Pakistan's all-powerful military establishment, tarnishing his credibility in the eyes of his opponents.
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In November 2017, Pashteen was abducted by intelligence agencies that told him to stop working as an activist and speaking out against the military establishment.
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Israel said it had destroyed three Syrian anti-aircraft batteries and four targets "that are part of Iran's military establishment" in Syria during Saturday's raids.
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In recent years, Thailand has been riven by rivalry between the old, royalist-military establishment and populist forces that have arisen in conjunction with economic growth.
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At the heart of Thailand's fractious politics is rivalry between the Bangkok-based royalist-military establishment and populist former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra and his allies.
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Biden, meanwhile, played up his faith in the military establishment and his place in the Obama White House, which negotiated the Iran nuclear deal in 2015.
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Mr. Sharif's efforts to assert civilian control over the military during his last term failed, turning him into an intensely hated figure among the military establishment.
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When Mr. Sharif returned to office in 2013, it was as a widely popular party leader with a deep grudge against the country's powerful military establishment.
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The Israeli military said 12 targets, including three aerial defense batteries and four Iranian targets that are part of Iran's military establishment in Syria were attacked.
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Mr. Siddiqui is a prominent critic of the country's powerful military establishment, and on Wednesday he said he believed that "state agencies" were behind the attack.
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It's important to note that Pakistan's government, although democratically elected, does not have the power to control or influence the far-reaching and powerful military establishment.
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Nadir Cheema, a London-based academic, said that even though he opposed PTI's conservative politics and its links with the military establishment, he would respect the results.
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He has maintained that he and the ruling party are being singled out by the top court, which he claims is supported by Pakistan's powerful military establishment.
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The leader of the Future Forward Party, which shocked the Thai military establishment in last month's elections by coming third in the popular vote, is Thanathorn Juangroongruangkit.
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The big question is, will Mr. Sharif and his daughter's confrontation win over the electorate in Punjab, or will Punjab follow the directions from the military establishment?
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The royalist-military establishment has been at odds with former telecommunications tycoon Thaskin for years, seeing his vote-winning, populist policies as a threat to traditional ways.
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"Twelve targets, including three aerial defense batteries and four Iranian targets that are part of Iran's military establishment in Syria were attacked," the military said in a statement.
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His background, as a former police officer and successful ethnic-Chinese businessman, has more in common with his "yellow shirt" opponents in the Thai political and military establishment.
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Files related to prominent "anti-government" figures who were double agents working for Argentina's military establishment -- and American officials who turned a blind eye -- also should be released.
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But Britain's diplomatic and military establishment is a bit like an aristocratic family that has inherited a crumbling pile in the country and insists on keeping up appearances.
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Moscow's emphasis is on its traditional relations with the Syrian military establishment, while Tehran focusses on the militia network it built with Hezbollah to shore up the regime.
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A decade of turbulent politics has pitted Thaksin and his sister, former Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra, against a royalist-military establishment that sees the Shinawatras as a threat.
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The unrest has shaken up a long moribund political scene marked by decades of social and economic malaise and behind-the-scenes power-broking by the military establishment.
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Mr. Modi, according to Indian press reports, refused to engage until Pakistan did more against the terror groups based in the country and patronized by its military establishment.
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The leader of the Future Forward Party, which shocked the Thai military establishment in last month's elections by coming in third in the popular vote, is Thanathorn Juangroongruangkit.
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"Many Army officers maintained that though the facts were usually right … the stories fostered disrespect for the military establishment," wrote The New York Times in a 1969 article.
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The United States has been investing in a military establishment as if the next threat would look like the wars and conflicts that occurred in the 20th century.
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The BAS folks were confident that finally nuclear arsenals would be abolished and the "oversized military establishment" of the great powers, including the United States, would be downsized.
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"Where a military establishment is involved, section 3(2) of the statute effectively places the burden on the defendant to prove that they are not guilty," the group said.
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Widodo, a former furniture businessman and the first president to come from outside the political or military establishment, will seek another five-year term in the April 17 election.
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Widodo, the first Indonesian leader to come from outside the political and military establishment, relies on an unstable coalition of parties in parliament needed to pass his reform programme.
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Sharif on Thursday said "aliens", a typical coded reference to the military establishment, had been calling PML-N lawmakers and pushing them to abandon the party or join PTI.
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The military establishment, the theory goes, never gave up on the ambitions of MK Ultra, the C.I.A.'s infamous program to control the mind in the 313s and '60s.
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The general election had been broadly viewed as a straightforward battle between Thaksin's populists and their allies, on the one hand, and the royalist-military establishment on the other.
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Instead, Trump made a unilateral choice, which shocked our political and military establishment, as well as our allies abroad -- but delighted our chief international adversary, Russian President Vladimir Putin.
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The crisis pits former telecommunications tycoon Thaksin, and his legions of supporters, against the Bangkok-based elite which sees him as a threat to the old royalist-military establishment.
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"Shahbaz has indicated that he'll work with the military establishment; so he won't press his hand on foreign policy or on non-state militant groups," said Afzal of Brookings.
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Mr. Shafik ran for president in 2012 as the candidate of Egypt's business and military establishment, promising to restore order after the Arab Spring uprising of the previous year.
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Despite significant evidence that IRGC operations had cost American soldiers' lives in Iraq, both directly and indirectly, the U.S. military establishment had not wanted to take this step. Gen.
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"It isn't possible or logical, and nobody could accept it, that the military establishment and the army continue without a leader," Moqbel said in a statement shown on live television.
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Khan&aposs stands on some key issues: ON MILITARY DOMINANCE: Pakistan&aposs powerful military establishment has directly or indirectly ruled the country for most of its seven decades of existence.
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"The move today creates uncertainty over two parties and shows that the military establishment is still in control and this could create more problems in the future," he told Reuters.
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In our villages and small towns, we don't have political leaders; we have brokers and thugs who sell our votes to federal politicians and their backers in the military establishment.
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The military establishment, for its part, still views America — its primary source of intelligence, funding, training and equipment for decades — as an indispensable partner against both external and domestic threats.
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For much of the past decade, Thailand has been divided along political lines between the mostly rural-based red shirt movement and the royalist-military establishment in the capital and south.
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General Apirat Kongsompong, 58, belongs to the King's Guard faction in the First Infantry Division of the First Army Region - a group at the very heart of the royalist military establishment.
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CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt's former anti-corruption chief has been referred to a military court for trial on charges of spreading false news harmful to the military establishment, his lawyer said Thursday.
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All three appear to have been replaced by younger Kim loyalists, part of an ongoing transformation of the country's political and military establishment since the young leader took power in 2011.
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And despite public pronouncements to the contrary, Pakistan's military establishment has shown no inclination that it intends to change this long held policy of utilizing terror groups as strategic regional assets.
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Tensions between the civilian government and the military establishment escalated in October 2016 after Mr. Sharif began asserting himself on foreign policy and national security, which the military considers its domain.
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Revived relations with Washington diversify the Philippines' strategic options, strengthen the hand of the largely pro-American military establishment in the country and limit Sino-Russian strategic forays into Southeast Asia.
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In 2016, Sharif's government clashed with the military establishment when news leaked that he had pressured them to end the security agencies' support of anti-India and anti-Afghan militant groups.
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Prayuth's pro-army party came first in the March 2019 election but opposition parties say electoral laws written by the junta were designed to give the military establishment control over politics.
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Since his removal, Sharif has been arguing that the Pakistani military establishment, aided by top members of the judiciary, backed a series of decisions which banned him from politics for life.
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Conricus, the Israeli military spokesman, said the military focused on inflicting "long-term damage on the Iranian military establishment in Syria" and assessed "it will take a substantial time to replenish".
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Central Cairo is nonetheless adorned with banners and billboards proclaiming support for Sisi, who led the overthrow of Egypt's first freely elected president in 2013 and returned the military establishment to power.
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Although the government has not banned the group, the Pashtun Protection Movement, also known as the Pashtun Tahafuz Movement, or P.T.M., the activists have clearly struck a nerve in Pakistan's military establishment.
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But a forthcoming paper by Mr Golby and Mr Feaver shows that, if Republican and Democratic respondents are told that the military establishment favours the rival party, their confidence in it plummets.
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But can Khan take on the military establishment, which still sits at the top of the food chain and is still fighting an eternal war against India and its own people, too?
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The vote is a boost to Iran's military establishment – the regular army, the elite Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and defense ministry - which was allocated almost 2 percent of the 2015-16 budget.
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Trump's suggestion that the "one China" principle – that Taiwan is a part of China – was up for negotiation has already prompted saber-rattling from Chinese state media and some in the military establishment.
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At the heart of the fractious politics is rivalry between the Bangkok-based royalist-military establishment and populist former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra and his allies, who the establishment sees as a threat.
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Leaked diplomatic cables have since confirmed that Honduran military officials, despite being sanctioned by the US, were able to leverage their contacts within the Pentagon and the US military establishment at the time.
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As the problems have mounted, opposition parties have stepped up attacks, accusing the government and its allies in the powerful military establishment of crushing dissent and orchestrating Sharif's removal from power and conviction.
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Only actors from within the military establishment — those who know the identities of the armed actors within their ranks, their businesses and deals — can do the revamping of the military that is needed.
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Ms. Jiang's testimony is especially important because she was not a demonstrator; she was a card-carrying member of the military establishment, daughter of a general and herself a lieutenant in the army.
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But the poll takes place amid accusations that the powerful military establishment is tilting the field in favour of the PTI and its leader, a former cricket star, Imran Khan (pictured, on the flag).
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For more than a decade Thailand has been divided between populist political forces led by Thaksin, who was toppled in a 2006 coup, and the royalist and military establishment, which accuses him of corruption.
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The Shinawatras enjoy support in the mostly poorer north and northeast of Thailand while their opponents, including the royalist-military establishment that accuse the Shinawatras of corruption, mostly hail from Bangkok and the south.
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Two months before the elections, a concerted campaign by the military establishment seems underway to engineer the political process to ensure that Mr. Sharif can't even exercise power vicariously and is relegated to history.
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The 2014 election of Joko Widodo as president, the first leader to come from outside the country's political and military establishment, offered hope to human rights activists that past violations would finally be addressed.
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"The conventional Iranian threat is much more clear, and this is why Netanyahu has the support of most of the Israeli military establishment, which he didn't have on the nuclear issue," said Mr. Shavit.
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The internet crackdown is happening while the country's military establishment has been exerting its influence more broadly over media outlets, the courts and politics, even as it has enjoyed widespread popularity with the public.
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One PML-N minister, speaking on condition of anonymity, said while Sharif's tone has hardened in recent months, ties with the military establishment would have to be repaired if the party was to govern again.
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Two days after Turkey's military establishment launched its coup, forces allied to the Syrian government established positions on Castello Road, the last supply road into Eastern Aleppo, imposing a full siege on the opposition enclave.
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The military establishment does everything in its power to mitigate risk in a battlespace that can only be described as "murky" because, no matter the amount of intelligence or planning, the only certainty is uncertainty.
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The next American president is not likely to abandon support for a two-state solution, and Israel's position in Washington will not be strengthened by a defense minister at odds with the Israeli military establishment.
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"It is likely that in the aftermath of next week's election, Thailand's military establishment will, by hook or by crook, win a coalition majority, but only with the help of junta-appointed senators," said Chambers.
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Yes, they're Muslim, but they have been under the shoe of Sunni hardliners, and hardships have been further exacerbated by the military establishment and the constitution in Pakistan that refuses to recognize Ahmadis as Muslims.
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The Deep State takes a similar form in Pakistan, with its powerful intelligence service, the I.S.I., and in Egypt, where the military establishment is tied to some of the largest business interests in the country.
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The former general warned that the new "conjunction of an immense military establishment and a large arms industry" — which he dubbed "the military industrial complex" — could pose grave dangers to American liberties and US democracy.
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Shah was among four members of the civilian-military establishment named by Bhutto in a letter written to then President Pervez Musharraf months before her assassination as suspects who should be investigated if she was killed.
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Pakistan's military establishment and intelligence agencies have had strong links to militant groups since the end of the Soviet invasion in Afghanistan in 1989, and have used these groups to counter India in Indian-administered Kashmir.
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But his detention does suggest how far Mr. Sisi is willing to go to clear the field of challengers — even if doing so means crossing senior figures inside the military establishment that is his political bedrock.
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News Analysis Just a month and a half away from national elections, Pakistan's powerful military establishment has mounted a fearsome campaign against its critics in the news media, on social networks, and in mainstream political movements.
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BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thailand's Constitutional Court on Friday dissolved an opposition political party that has been critical of the military establishment and banned its leader from politics for 10 years over a loan he gave the party.
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Where Nawaz Sharif, whose second term was cut short by a military coup in 1998, has always been feuding with the country's domineering military establishment, Shehbaz Sharif is considered to have better relations with the generals.
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The former general warned of that the new "conjunction of an immense military establishment and a large arms industry" — which he dubbed "the military-industrial complex" — could pose grave dangers to American liberties and US democracy.
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It was a watershed moment in a relationship that has been fraught for decades, in part because of a disturbing narrative of collusion between U.S. intelligence agencies and the Argentine military establishment which carried out the killings.
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The military government has defended its rights record saying it must act to maintain order after a decade of divisive and at times violent political rivalry that has pitted the royalist-military establishment against populist political forces.
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"You go means you go," read banners at the protest in the capital on Tuesday, reiterating the desire of many Algerians to remove all remnants of a secretive political and military establishment that has dominated for decades.
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His hostility to NATO and claims that the alliance is simply a vehicle for US allies to raid the US "piggy bank" directly conflicts with the position taken by the entire US foreign policy and military establishment.
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PILDAT said "surreptitious muzzling" of the media, a rise in bias from the military establishment and a "perceived partisanship in judicial and political accountability have nearly eroded the prospects of a free and fair election in 2018".
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But her unapologetic embrace of the GOP military establishment at least suggests that she doesn't believe the left-wing attacks on her foreign policy can hurt her, and that the embrace of Republican military officials can help.
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ISTANBUL — The sudden decision by President Trump to endorse Turkey's move to send its troops into Syria and pull out most of the American forces posted there seems to have shocked the country's political and military establishment.
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For more than a decade, Thailand has been rocked by clashes between supporters of Yingluck and her brother, former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, who was ousted in a 2006 coup, and those who back the royalist-military establishment.
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That has given a semblance of calm to a nation bitterly divided for over a decade between the royalist-military establishment and the supporters of former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, a telecommunications billionaire ousted in a 2006 coup.
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BANGKOK (Reuters) - A Thai billionaire whose opposition party, critical of the military establishment, was dissolved last month said on Friday he will form a new movement to work outside parliament after being banned from politics for 10 years.
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The ministry recently announced that the cathedral's steps will be made out of melted German armor captured in World War II. The newfound religious zeal of the military establishment imitates Mr. Putin's own personal ties with Bishop Tikhon.
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ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - A Pakistani journalist, known for criticizing his country's military establishment, said on Wednesday he had narrowly escaped being kidnapped by armed men, in an incident that came months after he complained of being harassed by security services.
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Joseph Franco, a research fellow at the Nanyang Technological University in Singapore who has studied the Philippine military establishment, said that allegations about the Davao Death Squad had never been aired so publicly at a high-level Senate hearing.
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In his later years, Prem was accused by supporters of Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra of siding with the royalist military establishment against the populist leader, who was ousted in a 2006 coup and now lives in self-imposed exile.
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On the other side stand serving members of the military establishment, who say the shooting cannot be countenanced, that Azaria, who made far-right, anti-Palestinian postings on Facebook before being conscripted, acted in cold blood and outside military procedures.
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Fazl-ur-Rehman, leader of the conservative Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam-Fazl (JUI-F) party, said the government of cricketer-turned-politician Khan was "incompetent and illegitimate" and was installed by the military establishment after a rigged election last year.
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For the past decade, Thailand has been locked in a bitter conflict between the Bangkok-based royalist-military establishment and supporters of former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra and his sister, former Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra, and their Puea Thai Party.
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But while several polls put Khan's Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI, or Pakistan Justice Movement) marginally ahead -- the result, his rivals allege, of covert support from the country's powerful military establishment -- other surveys suggest the result is too close to call.
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Across the country, Pakistani voters will be making choices on Wednesday that have been heavily winnowed by the military establishment, which through intimidation and a sympathetic judiciary has repressed its unfavored candidates — and even entire political movements — in recent months.
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But in Pakistan, China has a steady ally it can approach to smooth things over: the country's powerful military establishment, which stands to fill its coffers with millions of dollars through CPEC as the military's construction companies win infrastructure bids.
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And over everything is the question: Can an election in which the leading party and journalists who cover it are perceived to be under threat — from a military establishment that has overthrown governments several times — really be seen as free?
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The movement's accusations against the powerful and popular Pakistani military establishment run counter to the official narrative, which lauds the army as being responsible for a hard-earned peace in a country that has suffered at the hands of terrorist groups.
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In recent weeks, the country's biggest news channel, Geo TV, has been run off the air by cable operators who are broadly seen here as under threat from a military establishment that has increasingly been flexing its authority over civilian institutions.
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Especially since Saudi is still trying to purchase $1.15 billion worth of (primarily) tanks, which suggests that portions of Saudi's military establishment may wish to not only bomb targets from afar, but also have the capability to invade and hold territory.
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The emergence of the Pandin Dharma Party to contest the March 24 election points to the rise of a fringe of Thai society that is at odds with the royalist-military establishment over religion and expresses growing antipathy to Islam.
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Op-Ed Contributor The power of the president, as commander in chief of the armed forces, has evolved over more than two centuries, constrained by congressional action, the emergence of a standing military establishment after World War II and a more complex world.
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Though he swept to power for a third time in a 2013 general election, during his four years in power, the military establishment moved to exert increasing influence over news media outlets, the courts and politics and enjoyed widespread popularity with the public.
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Mr. Sharif's latest stint in office began with a strong election showing in 2013, as he promised to take on the country's all-powerful military establishment and moved to impose civilian authority in areas long run by the generals, including foreign policy.
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ISLAMABAD, Jan 10 (Reuters) - A Pakistani journalist, known for criticising his country's military establishment, said on Wednesday he had narrowly escaped being kidnapped by armed men, in an incident that came months after he complained of being harassed by the security services.
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Pakistan's political and military establishment has long hoped for an end to the grinding violence in Afghanistan and the eventual withdrawal of American forces from the country, both of which the United States and the Taliban tentatively agreed to in Doha, Qatar.
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Since recent attacks in Kabul have come amid a low point in U.S.–Pakistan relations, they have been viewed as a possible signal of displeasure from Pakistan's military establishment—known for close links with militant groups—over the Trump administration's cuts in security assistance.
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For more than a decade, Thailand has been divided between populist political forces led by former premier Thaksin Shinawatra, who was toppled in a 2006 coup, and the royalist and military establishment, which accuses Thaksin of poisoning politics with corruption and nepotism, which he denies.
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The ruling military council has said the charter will pave the way for a general election in 2017, ensure clean politics and end more than a decade of political turmoil since Thaksin, his allies and their rural supporters challenged the royalist and military establishment.
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From the start of Mr. Sharif's legal troubles in 2016, his supporters have accused the country's powerful military establishment of pressing the case against Mr. Sharif, whose first term ended in resignation under military pressure and whose second was cut short by an army coup.
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That five presidential candidates withdrew or were forced to withdraw from running against Mr. Sisi is a reminder of the impossibility of real politics in Egypt — with "elections" mere charades blessed by a military establishment that has suffocated Egyptian politics for more than 60 years.
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A new civil rights movement in Pakistan is galvanizing a rapidly growing following among the country's ethnic Pashtun minority by doing the nearly unthinkable: openly accusing the powerful and popular Pakistani military establishment of being "oppressors" who kill or whisk away Pashtuns by the thousands.
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Mr. Pompeo and many in the military establishment view Mr. Xi, the most powerful Chinese leader in decades, as determined to spread the country's influence through Africa, Latin America and, increasingly, Europe — and to use its technology, led by Huawei-produced networks, to exercise control.
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But despite a campaign by Azaria's family and rightist politicians that described the conscript, 19 at the time of the incident, as "everyone's child", members of Israel's military establishment argued that the shooting violated rules stating that soldiers can open fire only in life-threatening situations.
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The case has caused a major rift between the civilian government of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, who was deposed by the coup that brought Mr. Musharraf to power in 1999, and the powerful military establishment, which has been wary of having its former chief put on trial.
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Ms. Lee also expressed skepticism over a statement by Ms. Aung San Suu Kyi that the government's response to the violence in Rakhine State was based on the rule of law, echoing growing unease that she is doing little to rein in Myanmar's powerful military establishment.
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Even those within the American military establishment who think there is a possibility of improving the trajectory of the conflict in the government's favor, people with the most optimistic assessment you'll find, understand that ultimately you need some kind of political settlement among the Afghanistan [power factions].
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But analysts said that one reason Mr. Tebboune was the preferred candidate of the military establishment, and of General Gaïd Salah, was because he appeared to have split with the Bouteflika clan, with which the general was in bitter conflict by the end of his tenure.
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While Pakistan's powerful military establishment has quietly cooperated with the C.I.A.'s campaign of drone strikes against Al Qaeda and the Pakistani Taliban in the northwestern tribal areas, it has refused past requests from the spy agency to expand the drone flights into Baluchistan, former American officials said.
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Like many other former admirers of Ms. Aung San Suu Kyi, the museum said it understood the pressures on her from a military establishment that still holds most of the country's power, and a Buddhist majority which regards the Rohingya as trespassers who have no historic place in Myanmar.
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His pledge to push for changes to a constitution drafted under military supervision and to end conscription has put him at odds with a strongly royalist and pro-military establishment, which has cast him and his party as enemies of tradition in the country of about 70 million.
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The war on terror and the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq contributed to the militarization of American diplomacy as well as empowering the military establishment, which has in any event always been able to marshal far greater resources than the State Department because of its connection to defense industry-related jobs.
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Baluchistan has also been the center of two resilient insurgencies, making it one of the most sensitive areas for Pakistan's powerful military establishment: Ethnic Baluch separatists there have been pursued by a stifling Pakistani security presence, and part of the leadership of the Afghan Taliban also continues to take shelter there, in the city of Quetta.
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The Israeli military establishment, Israeli public opinion and Mr. Netanyahu's challenger in the election, Mr. Gantz, a retired three-star general, have long held that Israel must retain military control of the Jordan Valley for some period after a peace treaty is signed, effectively maintaining a buffer between the Palestinians and Arab lands to the east.
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The movement has shaken the Pakistani military establishment with its mission: to seek justice for Pakistan's Pashtun ethnic minority, which activists say has been subjected to years of abuse, discrimination and deadly violence at the hands of the military under the guise of operations against the Pakistani Taliban and other militants in the country's northwestern region — where most of the country's Pashtuns live.
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President TrumpDonald John TrumpFacebook releases audit on conservative bias claims Harry Reid: 'Decriminalizing border crossings is not something that should be at the top of the list' Recessions happen when presidents overlook key problems MORE plans to highlight the U.S. military establishment and American freedom in his speech on Thursday night as part of the Fourth of July "Salute to America" festivities on the National Mall.
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"What the military establishment (in Pakistan) has been saying is they're not going to fundamentally change their approach to Afghanistan, as long as what they think there's going to be continued security threats not only from Afghanistan but also from India," Hassan Javid, a political science professor at Lahore University of Management Sciences, said Pakistan has historically had a "soft spot" for anti-India terrorist groups based in Kashmir and groups like the Haqqani network and the Taliban that target Afghanistan, because it views Afghanistan as a strategic resource, Javid said, in case of an attack from India.
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