Not exact matches
Instead of behaving in a professional manner, our military invaded Iraq with far too small a force; failed to respond adequately when parts of the Iraqi
Army (and Baathist Party) went underground; tolerated an orgy of looting and lawlessness throughout the
country; disobeyed orders and ignored international obligations (including the obligation of an
occupying power to protect the facilities and treasures of the
occupied country — especially, in this case, Baghdad's National Museum and other archaeological sites of untold historic value); and incompetently fanned the flames of an insurgency against our occupation, committing numerous atrocities against unarmed Iraqi civilians.
This was the only time in the history of the Soviet Union that the Red
Army voluntarily withdrew from a European
country it had
occupied without firing a shot.
'' «Join the
army and be sent, probably poorly equipped, into situations where people try and shoot you and kill you because you are
occupying their
countries.
Yet all that changes after Hitler's
army invades their
country, and the Nazis
occupy their city.
Like my uncle, Léone had spent her entire life watching the strong arm of authority in action, be it the American marines who'd been
occupying the
country when she was born or the brutal local
army they'd trained and left behind to prop up, then topple, the puppet governments of their choice.
The first hotel to open in The Presidio of San Francisco, a National Historic Landmark, the Inn at the Presidio is an historic restoration of Pershing Hall, an
Army Bachelors Quarters built in 1903, when the U.S.
Army occupied the 1,491 acres to protect the
country.