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...On Monday the UN humanitarian affairs agency OCHA said Gaza’s diesel power plant “could run out of fuel within days”....
...A low-key US military delegation arrived in Taiwan last month to assess its army, navy and air force and explore what the country’s armed services could gain from closer co-operation with Washington....
...But the real objective is — and remains — psychological and political....
...The call was to give them ammunition and organise them under the command of the Somali army,” says Hussein Sheikh-Ali, the national security adviser....
...Command: The Politics of Military Operations from Korea to Ukraine by Lawrence Freedman, Allen Lane £30/$34.95 This broad survey of war since 1945 covers a variety of conflicts from the Korean war to Russia...
...In CAR, Russia quickly set up a command centre and training base about 80km from Bangui....
...operation” north, south-west and south-east of the island....
...China, meanwhile, was racked by civil war and offered no political or ideological challenge....
...Riyadh blamed the killing on a rogue operation by its own agents....
...The operation was ultimately successful, in that Noriega was captured and taken back to the US for trial, but it did not go entirely smoothly....
...Nigerien captains command platoons of mainly French troops and vice versa....
...“The impact of the Owen Paterson affair is that it has undermined the whips’ office . . ....
...In September that year, with the operation still under way, Aung San Suu Kyi gave a speech in which she described the offensive in clipped Oxbridge tones as “clearance operations”....
...Demetri SevastopuloIn China the civil military fusion programme basically means that any company can be forced to provide technology it’s developed or acquired to the People’s Liberation Army, the Chinese...
...The Chadian army is considered the most effective in the Sahel, and a key partner of France’s 5,000-troop Operation Barkhane, which is based in N’Djamena....
...The Pentagon described the move as a “prudent planning measure in response to ongoing support to civil authorities’ operations”....
...A new space command has “combatant” status, giving it increased firepower and strategic control over operations....
...Not least because there’s also growing awareness of the emotional and psychological problems that come with being a man today: in the UK, one in eight men suffer from a mental health condition such as depression...
...The command and control system links up with the main departments involved in managing civil contingencies in the event of no deal — the Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, the Department...
...Operation Liberty continues.”...
...Philip Booth, senior academic fellow at the Institute of Economic Affairs: No....
...“There is clearly a need for better and sharper lessons learned from operations in Yemen.”...
...Even with the Home Office’s co-operation, it is hard to identify individuals who are willing to talk about positive experiences with Prevent....
...One (German-led) project in Pesco’s first batch is for an EU force “crisis response operation core”....
...Rosenbach started the Defending Digital Democracy Project at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard University in 2017 with the mission of improving US defences against election...
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