Sentences with phrase «of the armed forces suffered»

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Being a huge producer of arms during the world wars and suffering no foreign invasion that would impede its production or force it to reconstruct post-war made for a large post-war arms industry that continued to grow as the cold war set in.

I recognise the division felt by many in our country over the war and in particular I feel deeply and sincerely — in a way that no words can properly convey — the grief and suffering of those who lost ones they loved in Iraq, whether the members of our armed forces, the armed forces of other nations, or Iraqis.

A lack of spare parts has contributed to the helicopter shortages suffered by Britain's armed forces, a committee of MPs has said.

Still analyzing the circumstantial deaths suffered by the youth in the last two years most especially, we need to take closer introspection of the casualties of the major cases of extralegal executions of unarmed protesters in the South East of Nigeria and in Zaria, Kaduna state carried out by armed security forces targeting members of the indigenous people of Biafra (IPOB) and the Shiites Islamic movement.

Nigel Inkster of the International Institute of Strategic Studies told politics.co.uk: «The Argentines» armed forces are in arguably a worse state than they were in 1982, having suffered from decades of chronic underinvestment.

Veterans of the U.S. Navy or other branches of the military may also have suffered exposure to asbestos due to dangerous materials used by the armed forces.