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The High Court has dismissed a legal challenge brought by NGOs against the UK government's licensing of arms sales to Saudi Arabia, which has been involved in military conflict in Yemen since 2015.

They show fault lines within NATO itself, and some ambassadors have expressed concerns that the race to claim the resource - rich territory — remember, the US Geological Survey estimates that there's as much oil off the coast of Greenland as there is in the North Sea — will lead to military conflict in the near future.

As one of nine commanders, lead your army on the battlegrounds of the biggest military conflict in history

As one of nine commanders, lead your army on the battlegrounds of the biggest military conflict in history

The question of a military conflict between NATO member states would have been an entirely hypothetical question a decade ago, but looking at certain NATO member states (e.g. Turkey) increasing alliance with Russia, it just seems plausible that there can be a military conflict in between NATO member states.

U.K. stocks end slightly higher as traders remain wary over Syria conflict Micro Focus soars on report that hedge fund has bought stake U.K. stocks struggle for direction on Thursday, as investors remain nervous over the potential for a military conflict in Syria and digested the latest Federal Reserve minutes.

As CNBC notes, Roubini predicted in May that four elements — stalling growth in the U.S., debt troubles in Europe, a slowdown in emerging markets, particularly China, and military conflict in Iran — would come together in to create a storm for the global economy in 2013.

Although there have been several recent cross-border attacks and incursions, the Eurasia Group team does not see a broader military conflict in 2017 given that both countries» prime ministers are focused on domestic issues.

In the past, military conflicts in the Middle East and the attendant threat of supply disruptions would send oil prices soaring.

Further, 57 % of men and 51 % of women think that military conflicts in the Asia Pacific directly affect Canadian security.

Historically, China has been involved in a majority of the military conflicts in the South China Sea.

Veterans of recent military conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan often have a history of exposure to explosive forces from bombs, grenades and other devices, although relatively little is known about whether this injures the brain.

As a recent article in The Atlantic points out, annual U.S. traffic fatalities surpass the yearly dead during the military conflicts in Vietnam, Korea, Iraq, and Afghanistan, the War of 1812 and the American Revolution.

The strategic location of St. Marys on the Atlantic Coast just above Florida led to its involvement in several of the major military conflicts in U.S.history.

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and 35) our ability to complete the proposed accelerated stock repurchase plan, among other things.

Yet Saudi Arabia is not without its critics, who lament its poor record on human rights, draconian executions of political prisoners and military intervention in the civil war in Yemen, a conflict that has caused a humanitarian disaster in the country and one which is seen as a proxy war between the kingdom and its regional rival, Iran.

He added that a miscalculation leading to a larger conflict is «always a possibility when you have military operated in the same space.

One report deals with the performance of the government and military during the conflict, dubbed Operation Protective Edge in Israel, and in the lead - up to it in general, with special attention paid to Hamas tunnels and Israel's lax preparations for dealing with their threat.

A year later, she went to Albania to cover the U.S. military buildup during the conflict in Kosovo.

While Trump presented no specific solution to his toughest global security challenge, he spoke in a more conciliatory tone on Tuesday at a time of growing fears across east Asia of the prospects for military conflict.

As the US military's attention shifts back to great - power competition, particular focus is being paid to the potential for conflict in the extreme conditions found at northern latitudes and higher elevations.

That followed daily newspaper Munhwa Ilbo reporting on Tuesday that the two countries were already in talks to announce a permanent end to the officially declared military conflict between them.

«Russia's not spoiling in any sense for a military conflict,» he continued, adding that Russian President Vladimir Putin was «ruthlessly rational in weighting cost - benefits.»

North and South Korea are in talks to announce a permanent end to the ongoing military conflict between the two countries, daily newspaper Munhwa Ilbo reported Tuesday, citing an unnamed South Korean official.

Richard Haass, Council on Foreign Relations president, discusses President Trump's threatening military action in Syria and whether that will spark a conflict with Russia.

Initially, the conflict brought windfall sales of patrol boats, oil, and construction materials to the U.S. military in Saigon.

In the 20th century, the United States endured two world wars and other traumatic and expensive military conflicts; the Depression; a dozen or so recessions and financial panics; oil shocks; a flu epidemic; and the resignation of a disgraced president.

«But let us be clear: the United States will maintain a military presence in Syria, focused on ensuring ISIS can not re-emerge,» while acknowledging many Americans» skepticism of military involvement in conflicts abroad, Tillerson said.

In an email exchange on Friday, we asked Taleb about how investors should think about a risk like North Korea, where decades of saber - rattling has yet to evolve into a major military conflict.

Wein Views Byron Wein shares his thoughts in Barron's about indicators that could disrupt the economy, including the narrow yield curve, the Fed's interest rate moves, and an exogenous event such as military conflict.

Texas governor Rick Perry says he would consider US military intervention in Mexico's drug conflict if he were to win the US presidency in 2012.

A North Korean attack of U.S. military bases in South Korea and Japan could turn into a broad regional conflict.

Robots have been vital in saving lives and identifying IEDs in military conflicts across the globe — and should something happen, fewer human lives would be harmed.

Would you believe that his fundamentalist Muslim teachings wouldn't influence decisions, such as whether to use military action in the Israel / Palestine conflict?

Orthodox Jews have been expelled from the military for wearing yarmulkes; a religious community in which all members worked for the church and believed that acceptance of wages would be an affront to God has been forced to yield to the minimum wage; religious colleges have been denied tax exemptions for enforcing what they regard to be religiously compelled moral regulations; Amish farmers who refuse Social Security benefits have been forced to pay Social Security taxes; and Muslim prisoners have been denied the right to challenge prison regulations that conflict with their worship schedule.

Sudan — where northern Christians experienced greater vulnerability after southern Sudan seceded in a July referendum, and where Christians were targeted amid isolated military conflicts — jumped 19 places last year from its 2010 ranking of 35th to 16th.

Poland had no chance whatsoever, and nobody in the West would have risked a military conflict with the Kremlin.»

Is it really likely that when the Romans heard Paul's words about creation being «subjected to futility» in 8:20 they «could well have thought about how imperial ambitions, military conflicts, and economic exploitation had led to the erosion of the natural environment throughout the Mediterranean world, leaving ruined cities, depleted fields, deforested mountains, and polluted streams as evidence of this universal human vanity»?

It is likely that low - intensity - conflict planners, in the post-Reagan phase of their global war against the poor, will continue creatively to mix military, economic, psychological and diplomatic aspects of warfare in response to specific needs.

Contemporary warfare has in fact taken the form of local conflicts, more often than not civil wars, in which no great alliances of nations are involved; these have been wars fought for reasons based in local rivalries, typically inflamed by historical animosities, ethnic disparity, or religious difference, rather than for reasons of global Realpolitik; they have been fought not with nuclear weapons (or, indeed, other types of weapons of mass - destructive capability) or the latest in military technology, but instead with conventional weaponry, often of old design, and often limited to rifles, knives, grenades, and light, crew - served weapons which individual soldiers can carry on their persons.

The common refrain is: «We're for religious liberty but...»» not in the prisons, not when it perpetuates sex discrimination, not in the military, not in the schools, not if it conflicts with animal rights, not if it interferes with land development in the West, and on and on.

But in addition to terrorism and military conflict, Americans still need to confront the growing reality — and awareness — that the global economy remains highly unequal, including over 2.8 billion people who survive on less than two U.S. dollars per day.

Chapter 3, «Low - Intensity Conflict: The Strategy,» will examine the economic, psychological, diplomatic, and military components of low - intensity warfare, with specific examples drawn from U.S. policy in Central America.

A vast majority of U.S. journalists in Iraq are / were embedded reporters (to my understanding), and while I wouldn't be the one to volunteer leaving the protection that the military offers in a place of war and conflict, in order to tell the whole story, we need journalists who are brave enough to.

Thus it must be said that the relevant political ethic for the diplomatist requires, to begin with, an awareness that the texture of interstate relations is comprised of multiple national interests, with their military, political, economic, and moral components, which clash in conflict or are resolved in consensus and agreement.

Collective security involves much more than the use of military measures, such as were invoked in the conflict in Korea.

A recent document approved in December, 1989 by the Army's chief of staff, General Carl Vuono, entitled «Military Operations in Low - Intensity Conflict,» describes the army's new aggressive plans.

The seductive voice of military might drowns out the call of Jesus; in countless conflicts this has occurred, and the church has become a source of sanctimonious propaganda.

Under his policy of «low intensity conflict», designed to avoid another Vietnam-esque debacle, the US dramatically increased military expenditures in order to fund anti-government rebels in Nicaragua, Angola, Ethiopia, Cambodia, and Afghanistan (including Bin Laden).

For example, in her book The Politics of Breastfeeding, nutritionist and outspoken breastfeeding activist Gabrielle Palmer chastises the United States for its hypocrisy in claiming to defend the life and liberty of babies in a myriad of military conflicts, and then being unwilling to set «guidelines for the marketing of a product which could kill children.»