Sentences with phrase «british military used»

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The Organisation for the Protection of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) released analysis on Thursday supporting the conclusion of British military scientists that a Russian - made nerve agent was used on Sergei and Yulia Skripal in Salisbury last month.

In a 2015 article for a NATO publication, Steve Tatham, a British military psychological operations expert who leads SCL's defense business outside of the United States, explained that one of the benefits of using the company's techniques is that it «can be undertaken covertly.»

The 2nd Amendment guaranteed individual citizens the rights to own arms JUST AS GOOD as those of the regular soldiers they might have to oppose in an armed rebellion — the very sort of armed rebellion that the writers of the 2nd Amendment had recently successfully engaged in, defeating the most powerful military force on the planet using their own guns, which were JUST AS GOOD as what the British regulars and their Hessian mercenaries had.

He became part of a conspiracy against Hitler at the highest levels of the German government, using his role as a civilian agent in military intelligence as a cover for ecumenical contacts that allowed the conspirators to make tentative overtures toward a peace settlement with the British government.

Reports about the effectiveness of attacks on Tripoli and Brega last night are mixed, but the use of British and French Apache helicopters saw two military installations destroyed along with a radar site and an armed checkpoint.

It's only later that it strikes me how strange it is that I'm corresponding with a retired navy commander about military strategies that may have been used in British and US elections.

The UK has not deployed control equipment requiring codes to be sent before weapons can be used, such as the U.S. Permissive Action Link, which if installed would preclude the possibility that military officers could launch British nuclear weapons without authorisation.

Speaking at a fringe event at the Conservative Party conference, Fallon said he was «appalled» at the way human rights law was being used against the British military, with the result that millions of pounds of taxpayers» money were being spent on fighting «fairly spurious cases» rather than on kit and personnel.

The technology is being pursued particularly single - mindedly amid growing signs of public dissatisfaction with British military adventures, not least the decision not to pursue intervention in Syria following President Assad's use of chemical weapons last year.

The international development secretary has called for the British and US military to stop using cluster bombs, according to a leaked letter.

And there is hope for an end to British involvement in the catastrophic series of military interventions that have destabilised the world and brought nothing but misery, pain and rage to the populations on whom bombs have fallen, places where special forces been given free rein to use their dark arts.

Neither of the new carriers will be used by British military jets until at least 2020 and one could be mothballed and possibly sold under future options.

A new book, Armed and Ready, reveals that the Australian military tried to block use of the local Owen gun in favour of the imported British product.

THE US police and coastguard may soon start using laser «dazzlers» like those the American and British militaries have employed for years at checkpoints in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Stony ground for Britain's ploughshares: British industry has ambitious plans for finding everyday uses for military technoolgy.

Adam: I could be wrong, but I think the use of the word «gong» in this context has its origins in British military slang, where it refers to a medal.

This bundle contains 11 ready - to - use Battle Of Somme Worksheets that are perfect for students who want to learn more about the Battle of Somme which took place on the 1st of July 1916 near the Somme river in France, and the joint Franco - British campaign that took place against the Germans was considered one of the bloodiest military battles in war history.

During the 1930s the title M16 was adopted as a «flag of convenience» for SIS and was used extensively during World War II - it was one of 17 military intelligence units established by the British during the war.

They are post militarised environments and infrastructure, and a reminder still of what was a sustained military land grab in the 20th century, when over 371,000 hectares of the British landmass was reserved and appropriated for military use

Mosse said in an interview with The British Journal of Photography «I wanted to export this technology to a harder situation, to up - end the generic conventions of calcified mass - media narratives and challenge the way we're allowed to represent this forgotten conflict... I wanted to confront this military reconnaissance technology, to use it reflexively in order to question the ways in which war photography is constructed.»

In 1978 Haacke had a solo exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in Oxford, England, that included the new work A Breed Apart, which made explicit criticism of the state - owned British Leyland for exporting vehicles for police and military use to apartheid South Africa.

In a 2015 article for a NATO publication, Steve Tatham, a British military psyops expert who leads SCL's defense business outside of the United States, explained that one of the benefits of using the company's techniques is that it «can be undertaken covertly.»

In a 2015 article for a NATO publication, Steve Tatham, a British military psychological operations expert who leads SCL's defense business outside of the United States, explained that one of the benefits of using the company's techniques is that it «can be undertaken covertly.»

The blaster rifles in the original Star Wars trilogy are based heavily on the design of the Sterling sub-machine gun that was used by British military forces until 1994.

Trained surveillance operators from the U.S. and British military for immediate operations using both static scenarios and scenarios that I manipulated on the fly