Sentences with phrase «military invasion of»

In the 80's when the International Association for the protection of Human Rights was set up, the aim was to educate and spread the Human Rights culture in a country which was a victim itself due to the 1974 military invasion of Cyprus by Turkey.

David Sherman's video The Graceless (2003) was composed during the first months of the U.S. military invasion of Iraq.

This film is an utterly fascinating analysis of what many historians consider the greatest military invasion of all time.

For Grace, it's a crisis of marriage and identity during a dispute between Monaco's Prince Rainier III and France's Charles De Gaulle and a looming French military invasion of the principality in the early 1960s.

Home» Education» Kogi ASUP decries alleged military invasion of school, detention of over 500 students

When the United States recently engaged in the military invasion of another country, Grenada, our president repeatedly called it not an invasion, but a «rescue mission.»

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Trump's focus on Saudi purchases of U.S. military equipment came amid a bipartisan effort to limit the United States» role in Yemen's civil war and protests in several U.S. cities over the Saudi - led invasion, which has contributed to a humanitarian crisis.

As the vision for the connecting tunnel between Folkestone and Calais became more concrete, Ministry of Defence (MoD) civil servants and senior military officers drew up the nuclear plan in order to thwart a possible invasion by the Soviet army from Calais, The Independent has discovered.

At the moment, I would much rather see the U.S. military intervene in Israel and Palestine to provide security for both peoples and the possibility of building a democratic and peaceful Palestinian state than engage in a highly personalized invasion of an «evil» country yet to be proven a threat to anyone.

Special Operations Forces (SOF) have been created or improved in order to lead military strikes throughout the third world, and thousands of U.S. troops have trained for a massive invasion of Central America.

• U.S. military maneuvers and training exercises prepare U.S. troops for possible future invasions while serving as present instruments of psychological warfare.

As several studies are showing now, whole civilian barrio communities were razed by the hi - tech military invasion, displacing tens of thousands and killing many more than the 300 the U.S. government admits.

I don't see their esteem for those in the military (which includes reverence for those who died) to lead to a desire for the bombing of Syria or the invasion of Costa Rica or whatever Hayes imagines.

If the whole point of the Afghan invasion was to capture and / or kill bin Laden, why did the SecDef not allow the military to carry out its mission back in 2003?

An invasion force in the hundreds of thousands, followed by all kinds of armor and military supplies, would certainly transform the idyllic Hungary I have been traveling through, and every single one of the scores of Hungarians I met during my journey expressed horror at the prospect.

The same question is then applied to other matters: to U.S. support of Israel; to U.S. opposition to the election of Hamas in Palestine; to the history of U.S. involvement in Iran over the past century; to the invasion and reconstitution of Afghanistan; to the depiction of events in the Middle East by U.S. media; and to the military expenditures of the U.S. government.

The powers of Congress to require military service for the common defense are broad and far - reaching, for while the Constitution protects against invasions of individual rights, it is not a suicide pact.

The ascension of the military class was completed with the invasion of Crimea.

5) There is a growing feeling that military brute force is at best a very unreliability means of achieving strategic objectives in the modern world for example the invasion of Iraq was a strategic failure despite an overwhelming military advantage.

Thomas E Ricks» The Gamble: General David Petraeus and the American Military Adventure in Iraq 2006 - 2008 (Allen Lane # 25.00) is the follow - on from Fiasco, which examined the coalition's invasion of Iraq.

The article of wikipedia is relatively un-biased and has good sources on the legitimacy of this military invasion

The case for a military invasion, conquering and occupation of another universally recognized sovereign nation - a war of aggression, or pre-emptive invasion, is against International Laws.

Its last large - scale military clash was a failed invasion of Vietnam in 1979.

For example, according to Macmillan, the German military planned the invasion of France through Belgium without really considering the political implications of such a move.

Japan does not carry out offensive military exercises and they don't create contingency plans that contain invasion as a course of action.

«Once again, we wish to restate our readiness to resist the invasion of Bayelsa with the Military under any guise as we remained committed to the peace which currently reigns in the Niger Delta region as a result of our acceptance of the Government's amnesty and cooperation so far.»

This led to Iran building up its military and prepping an invasion of Taliban controlled Afghanistan (odd that it would be the US that eventually topples the Taliban rule).

Off the top of my mind, (1) «a very large military» is not necessarily good at fighting vs. rebels; air strikes won't «destroy»; they can only accompany ground invasion; (2) ground strike means attacker's losses; (3) invasion must be justified, no threat to Turkey yet; (4) a NATO member should agree its actions with the NATO HQ; (5) Kurds are considered a bigger threat for Turkey; (6) Turkey may not want help Assad's who has killed 10 times more civ's than ISIS

Mr Cameron voted in favour of the invasion in 2003 as a Conservative backbencher and he said all those who backed the military action should «take our fair share of responsibility».

Let it be known that since the genocidal invasion of South East by Nigerian military as ordered by President Muhammadu Buhari, IPOB supporters and sympathizers have tripled, both local and international.

Their military uniforms and vehicles, their mosque invasions, and their founder's call for a «holy war» with Islam, should alert most sensible people to the kind of thugs they are.

But today US can only have sanctions against Iran; US can not attack Iran, because Iran in return can attack US army bases in middle east and even attack israel (The Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution touched on the Israeli threats of a military invasion against Iran and stressed: «If they make any such move, the Islamic Republic of Iran will raze Tel Aviv and Haifa to the ground.»)

Turkey using as an excuse the treaty of guarantee, invaded, occupied and still has under its control a part of a foreign Sovereign Nation (Republic of Cyprus) The article of wikipedia is relatively un-biased and has good sources on the legitimacy of this military invasion The main reason this act was an illegal invasion was that the treaty...

He branded the invasion «an act of military aggression launched on a false pretext,» although he stopped short of saying the former premier should be prosecuted.

I believe that military force is sometimes necessary - I supported Gulf War I and the invasion of Afghanistan.

Today's conference may also examine the possibility of a further UN resolution on Libya, replacing resolution 1973 which authorised military action short of a ground invasion to protect Libyan civilians.

The possibility of an invasion was already openly discussed, and potential military action against Iraq by the US had already been authorized.

Britain's lack of interest in Iraq after the invasion has «cast a long shadow» over the country's military reputation, according to an American counter-insurgency expert.

The Cyprus dispute, also known as the Cyprus conflict, Cyprus issue or Cyprus problem, is the ongoing issue of Turkish military invasion and occupation of the northern third of the island since 1974.

«Even until now, the military has not returned the symbol of authority they took away from the Egbesu Shrine and other valuables in Oporoza community during the May 28, 2016 invasion.

He added, «Presently all communities in Gbaramatu kingdom have been deserted by residents for fear of a repeat of the 2009 military invasion, which still leave the communities in shambles.

The big military exercises that the U.S. and South Korea conduct together to simulate an invasion of the North probably only add to the paranoia.

Killmonger desires not only to turn the Kingdom into a metaphor for American military invasion through the export of war, but to do so via explicitly American-esque military and governmental methods: destabilizing a vulnerable state during a handover of power, employing foreign sleeper agents to enact political will.

Because the film sticks so closely to Megan's perspective, we see the Iraqis, whose lives the U.S. military upended through their invasion of the country, as little more than Others, giving off the feeling that they're merely supporting players in this one American woman's emotional journey.

Another installment to the recent onslaught of alien invasion films, Battle: Los Angeles is based on famous historical UFO sightings and events such as the 1942 LA incident where an unidentified aircraft entered military airspace and was subject to artillery fire.

A cowardly military media relations officer is conscripted to the front lines of a counter attack during an alien invasion and finds that he keeps reliving the same day over and over again.

Featuring stills from Ender's Game, the much - anticipated film directed and written by Gavin Hood, this official 16 - month calendar follows the story of Andrew «Ender» Wiggin, an unusually gifted child who is sent — 70 years after a horrific alien war — to an advanced military school in space to prepare for a future invasion.

Forest Whitaker plays the Colonel in charge of the military side of the invasion.

The story takes place over the first few days of June 1944, as the Allied military leaders make final preparations for the D - Day invasion.

Strategic meetings between Winston and the military high command, led by General Dwight Eisenhower (John Slattery, «Spotlight»), highlight the Prime Minister's attempts to influence Operation Overlord, with suggestions of alternative attacks and changes to the Normandy invasion.