Sentences with phrase «under military command»

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Among the many scheduled American participants were the political advisor to the head of the U.S. Northern Command, the president for the Americas of Lockheed Martin Corporation, the senior director for the Western Hemisphere of the American National Security Council, the U.S. Deputy Under Secretary of Defense Carla Hills (who was the primary U.S. NAFTA negotiator), the senior United States Air Force military assistant to the then secretary of defense Donald Rumsfeld, the commander of U.S. Northern Command, the chair of the President's Council of Advisors on Science & Technology, Dr. James Schlesinger, the former American secretary of energy & defense, the deputy secretary of energy, plus many other top business, government and military officials, plus representatives of similar groups from Mexico.

Although Colombia is nominally under a civilian regime, the military forces are really in command — not only lurking behind the civilian president and congress, but recently emerging into the open with the «militarization» of vast regions of the country.

Although Colombia is nominally under a civilian regime, the military forces are really in command — not only lurking behind the civilian president and congress, but recently...

In addition, the present system already offers the military high command so much — in funds, prestige, and future employment via the famed «revolving door» of the military - industrial complex — that a perilous transition to anything like direct military rule would make little sense under reasonably normal conditions.

In 1814, Captain Maunsel White, at the age of 31, was placed in charge of a white mens militia regiment, named the Louisiana Blues, under the command of Major Jean Baptiste Plauch, who reported directly to Major General Andrew Jackson, commander of the Seventh Military District and the United States forces in the Gulf campaign against Britains blockade of American ports.

The Governor disclosed that having zero tolerance for any form of crime, and in fulfilment of the campaign promise made by the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), the Federal Government has concluded plans to upgrade the Military Brigade in Sokoto into a Division under the command of a Major General, and the Battalions in Katsina and Zamfara to the status of Brigades, each under the charge of a Brigadier General.

Military action is currently under US command.

Don't forget that it was under the command of President Buhari that over 400 unarmed Shiites were killed by the Nigerian military.

To the State security agencies, including the Military high command, the Ghana Police Service and the Office of National Security, the NPP Chairman urged these institutions to conduct full - scale investigations into how and why and under whose authorization their own forces were involved in an attack on the offices of the opposition.

It could be recalled that the late Bashorun MKO Abiola was the winner of the June 12 1993 Presidential elections in Nigeria; an election universally acclaimed as the freest, fairest and most credible in the political annals of Nigeria but was ironically annulled by the military high command under Gen Ibrahim Babangida MKO Abiola was later hounded into detention by the military junta under Gen Sanni Abacha, where he later died for refusing to renounce his electoral mandate

What is missing is a clear set of publicly declared rules under which USCYBERCOM will operate, Bronk says, adding, «We can't say there is a cyber command and then not have rules of the road like you do for other areas of military conduct.»

To assure their success, the military assigned the code - talkers men like Sergeant Joe Enders (Nicolas Cage), who personally underwent a harrowing experience in which all of the men under his command were killed.

Instead, Black is rerouted to northern Russia and placed under the command of the indomitable General Edmund Ironside in Operation Archangel, a virtually unknown military campaign whose sole focus was to prevent the Bolsheviks from retaining power following the October Revolution.

Army deployed first dog squads in September 1965 under the command of the 18th Military Police Brigade.

It will also be introducing the Tier 1 operator, a fairly unknown unit in the U.S Military operates under the National Command Authority and takes on missions no - one else can handle.

Conquest offers a tougher challenge, the difficulty ramped up to reflect the stronger medieval military archetypes under your command, while the composition of Birthright's Hoshidan army — Asian warriors, ninjas and samurai — will often mean you're forced to approach battles using stealth.

Emperor Mateus was responsible for untold destruction, thanks to the military might under his command.

It was destroyed by the British in 1922, under the command of Ronald Storrs, the British Military Governor of the occupied city.

Article 1 of Additional Protocol II of 1977 to the Geneva Convention applies to «armed conflicts -LSB-...] which take place in the territory of a High Contracting Party between its armed forces and dissident armed forces or other organised armed groups which, under responsible command, exercise such control over a part of its territory as to enable them to carry out sustained and concerted military operations and to implement this Protocol» (para. 1).

The Secretary believes that this exemption is warranted because application of the rule could have the unintended effect of impeding or frustrating the conduct of such activities, such as interfering with the ability of military command authorities to obtain protected health information on prisoners of war, refugees, or detainees for whom they are responsible under international law.