Sentences with phrase «american military leaders»

But that is in large part because there are lots of other factors involved which probably do reflect some poor planning on the part of American military leaders.

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U.S. military veterans will meet with tribal leaders on Saturday as they continue to entrench themselves in a North Dakota camp where thousands of activists are protesting a multibillion - dollar pipeline project near a Native American reservation.

Pyongyang looks at states such as Iraq — where Saddam Hussein was overthrown by the United States — and Libya — its late leader, Moammar Gadhafi, gave up his nuclear ambitions for sanctions relief and aid, only to be toppled and killed after the United States intervened in his country's civil unrest — and believes that only being able to threaten the US mainland with a retaliatory nuclear strike can stop American military intervention.

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In 2013, the former leader said the use of chemical weapons in Syria's civil war would trigger an American military response.

When they can give «secret codes» to their cult members to kill on command from their cult leader, then they are the «American Taliban» and have no place in the military at all.

A growing number of Latin American caudillos slide back into the old patterns of anti-American insults, military bluster, the smashing of internal dissent, and the steady aggrandizement of the Leader by submitting virtually every economic entity to his control.

To maintain domination some American officials seem willing to bribe the leaders of foreign governments, to seduce their military officers from national loyalties, to make whole nations dependent on our low - cost food, to spy out the deepest political secrets, and to treat other nations like American provinces that we may invade when they become too independent.

America's military leaders, notably the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Admiral Mike Mullen, now argue that because American soldiers are deployed within the range of Iranian retaliation, an attack on Iran would result in American casualties.

And to prevent them from being killed, America's military leaders argue that force can not be employed to prevent the murderers of American soldiers from acquiring nuclear weapons.

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Obama also threw a challenge to the American military and political leaders in taking military actions.

Fidel Castro, in contrast, admired the General as a national liberator, in the Bolivarian tradition (and also for standing up to the Americans), while the Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat celebrated him as the defender of his people against military occupation.

Meanwhile, on Tuesday, in a federal district court in Washington, D.C., the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and the Center for Constitutional Rights filed a brief requesting that a federal judge not dismiss a case of litigation against senior CIA and military officials for the 2011 targeted killing of Anwar al - Awlaki (a suspected al - Qaeda leader) and his 16 - year - old son, both U.S. citizens.

And as this column was written, we learned from the president's financial disclosure that he lied about the payments to porn star Stormy Daniels, while President Trump's first secretary of state, Rex Tillerson, told graduates at the Virginia Military Institute, «If our leaders seek to conceal the truth, or we as people become accepting of alternative realities that are no longer grounded in facts, then we as American citizens are on a pathway to relinquishing our freedom.»

Maj. Gen. Harold J. Greene, A two - star general from the Capital Region, became the highest - ranking American military officer to be killed in a combat zone since the Vietnam War on Tuesday when a gunman dressed as an Afghan soldier opened fire on U.S. and coalition leaders touring a military academy in Kabul.

You might think they're talking about current American politics: There is no money in the national treasury for more social programs like orphanages and vaccinations; The military budget must be cut; The rich are intent on keeping their tax privileges; Members of the legislature continue to beat down all proposed reforms of the leader; The conditions of the poor are getting worse; Some religious leaders insist that the Earth was created in six literal days; Foreigners must be deported.

Frustrated with the political rhetoric of leaders like the Secretary of State Robert McNamara (Bruce Greenwood), a military analyst named Daniel Ellsberg (Matthew Rhys) wants the American people to know what is really happening with the conflict overseas.

U.S. military and political leaders charge in ready to do anything they can convince the American public to accept.

Since those who believed in Manifest Destiny also believed that Whites had the right to disregard treaties and rights of the Native American, they were surprised at Red Cloud's ability to use his forces as an effective military leader.

Encouraging those voices is important, since «most educators — just like most Americans — don't have personal experience with the military,» says Mary Keller, the longtime leader of the Military Child Education Coalition, a prominent advocacy and resource center for teachers and parents, and one of the sponsors of the OEE cmilitary,» says Mary Keller, the longtime leader of the Military Child Education Coalition, a prominent advocacy and resource center for teachers and parents, and one of the sponsors of the OEE cMilitary Child Education Coalition, a prominent advocacy and resource center for teachers and parents, and one of the sponsors of the OEE campaign.

To many of us — especially those with military experience — David Petraeus is a great American public servant and one of the most respected military leaders in modern times.

But even though his father was a well - regarded member of the U.S. military, Davis still encountered many obstacles as he made his way through West Point and then as leader of the U.S. Army Air Force African American flying unit, the Ninety - Ninth Squadron.

From the British side, if its military leaders in North America, Richard Howe and William Howe, had prosecuted the war more aggressively, the Continental Army would have been annihilated and the American Revolution would never have gone forward.

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In contrast, for some other institutions, confidence has been more sensitive to current events: the percentage of Americans professing a great deal of confidence in military leaders changed more between 2004 and 2006 than the comparable percentage for science leaders changed between 1973 and 2006.

Indigenous nations to the west of American colonial settlements had finally found a leader capable of transcending many of the old jealousies that had often sabotaged the military and diplomatic effectiveness of the Aboriginal Confederacy.

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