Sentences with phrase «british militaries have»

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.

The British military have confirmed they don't know the exact location of a site in Derry that was the subject of a chemical warfare contamination...

The British military had major gaps in its equipment, particularly on protecting troops against IEDs, as well as intelligence, surveillance, target acquisition, reconnaissance and helicopter support.

A number of U.S. government installations have both wind turbines and functional radar, and the British military has a track record of successfully addressing these challenges.

Not exact matches

British military chiefs have hit back at Donald Trump's decision to ban transgender people from serving in the US military.

«We have entered a new era of warfare, witnessing a destructive and deadly mix of conventional military might and malicious cyberattacks,» said British defense secretary Gavin Williamson.

British authorities say the pair have been critically ill since the attack by a Soviet - designed, military - grade nerve agent called Novichok.

Resentments of America returned, 50 years after General Eisenhower's (mainly American) armies had liberated western Europe, including most of Germany, 75 years after General Pershing's Expeditionary Forces saved the victory of France and the British Empire on the Western Front, and as soon as American firmness and economic and military power had induced the bloodless collapse of the Soviet empire and Union, and of international communism.

Army Col. Steve Warren, a US military spokesman, said in November that the Army was «reasonably certain» that a drone strike in Syria had killed Emwazi, who spoke in beheading videos with a British accent as he wielded a knife.

Jihadi John had been identified by the US military as Mohammed Emwazi, a Kuwaiti - born British citizen.

In 1966 the huge British military establishment — which had provided much of the island's livelihood — began withdrawing, and now has all but vanished.

These military - inspired bands — sometimes called G10s, after the Ministry of Defence form British soldiers had to fill out to get one — are inexpensive, easily replaced and come in nylon and leather versions.

A former Russian military officer — who had been imprisoned there for spying for the British, then given refuge in the U.K. under a 2010 spy swap — was found critically ill on a bench at a shopping center in the west of England.

Moscow's spies — having penetrated the top levels of the British intelligence establishment — were that good, while Truman's determination to maintain civilian supremacy over his own military establishment was that strong.»

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.

But we knew that the settlers had been given permission to live in an abandoned «Taggart Fort,» one of a series of military installations placed on strategic hills by the British during the Mandate period.

It is not known who conceived the plan, but there's no doubt it met with the approval of the British military in America and may have been common practice.

«Strangely enough, pretty much everyone else in British society has managed to get through it in a better way: people in the military, people in politics, people in the media.

Sidenote: I bet that the reason the British government knew women would make excellent codebreakers at Bletchley Park during World War II is because someone high up in the military happened to catch sight of a shawl knitting pattern and thought, «Whoever can decipher that shawl pattern could probably defeat Hitler.»

First since the citizens of Washington were under siege by the British military including the firing from the British Navy on fortified positions around the city with troops on the ground burning the city to the ground it would more appear that the citizens had already taken cover in the city.

It had nothing to do with the Rubik's Cube of diplomatic and military considerations, a calculus that had to take into account the willingness of the American and British publics to continue to sacrifice and their soldiers to die.

An outspoken resolution which had been drafted, designed to put the council unequivocally on record as opposing any resort to military protection, was effectively shelved for a time by the protest of British delegates that their agencies had not yet given any consideration to the matter.

From controlling the foreign Affairs of Afghanistan after the 1st Anglo - Afghan war to drawing the Durand line between the Pashtuns after the 2nd Anglo - Afghan war, Why should the Afghans trust the British when the forefathers of Afghans fought against the Empire and today you send your royal family member on military expeditions in Afghanistan, why good have you done for any other country you have entered into militarily - what good can you do for Afghanistan when you have never been sincere with Afghans, Afghan never bought the story of Britain entering the war to eliminate poppy fields, the world is aware poppy production increase where British are present and Afghans know very well the British empire introduced poppy growing over 200 years ago to Afghanistan for transport through silk road and on to Hong Kong.

Many of the great clubs of England and Scotland have been run by retired military personnel, most notably Muirfield, which was ruled for many years by its imperious secretary, the late P.W.T. (Paddy) Hanmer, who had been a captain in the British navy.

«The British parliament, reflecting the views of the British people, does not want to see British military action,» he told MPs dumbstruck by what they had just accomplished.

One wonders whether the EU can have any common security policy without the British military capabilities and willingness to resolve, particularly in comparison with other member states of the EU.

Phillips, who was a leading military intelligence expert on Russia also stated his belief that much of the dossier compiled by the retired British intelligence officer is accurate and that it describes accurately how Russia develops compromising information on someone they have targeted.

British special forces have been operating on the ground in Iraq for six weeks, it has emerged, as David Cameron retreats from a larger military involvement.

A senior officer in the British army has said he is «bitterly disappointed» in the government's approach to culling the nation's military.

David Cameron has said ISIS poses a threat to British security and that military action is just one part of a wider strategy to defeat them.

MPs will be given a vote over potential British military action against the Bashar al - Assad regime when parliament is recalled later this week, David Cameron has confirmed.

The Labour leader, who had spent his entire career opposing British military interventions, was now seemingly incapable of leading his own party against one.

The lives of British troops will be put at «considerable risk» if HMS Ark Royal and the Harrier jump jet are scrapped, senior military figures have warned.

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.

Pressure from groups including the Royal British Legion, which had argued the post was needed to complete the military covenant between service personnel and the British people, finally had an effect yesterday when Downing Street indicated the prime minister was intervening.

He said the decision to move 500 British troops from Basra Palace to the airport had been taken in conjunction with the US and Iraqi military.

It was then revealed that in an interview with ITN, Jeremy Corbyn had said he wanted to look again at British military intervention against ISIS in Iraq.

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.

Michael Fallon has met around 75 MPs as the Conservatives push for British military strikes against...

Mr Straw told the inquiry in a lengthy written memorandum he did not believe British military involvement would have been possible without his backing because it would have meant there was no majority in favour in Cabinet.

Tony Blair has announced that British troops will be treated at a military - managed wing in a Birmingham NHS hospital.

Michael Fallon has met around 75 MPs as the Conservatives push for British military strikes against jihadi targets in Syria.

A further 900 British military personnel will be deployed to Afghanistan to help the reconstruction effort, the defence secretary has announced.

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

Mr Corbyn was embarrassed last month when he had to sit next to foreign secretary Hilary Benn in the House of Commons as he opposed him over British military action in Syria.

Mr Farage said he had been misquoted, and that «the British people have had enough of endless foreign military interventions».

The UK military presence in Iraq is due to be cut down from 5,500 in autumn 2000 to 2,500 this spring, with Gordon Brown insisting British forces have made a real difference on the ground to hand over power to Iraqi authorities.

Following a conversation on the phone with French president François Hollande, the prime minister said he would offer logistical military assistance to help transport foreign troops and equipment quickly to Mali, but that he would not deploy any British personnel.

With a too close - to - call general election, a left - wing Labour takeover that nobody saw coming, a Tory backlash over tax credits and an intense debate over military action in Syria, few could argue that British politics has been boring in recent months.

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.