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Mr Singh has the armed strength to scare people and order killings but, in an interview, he implied that he would drop his separatist demands in exchange for recognition and a seat at the table.
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On October 1st the trained strength of the British armed forces was 173, 270.
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Since the Americans arrived, the Philippine armed forces say they have reduced the strength of the Abu Sayyaf from hundreds to dozens.
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If the Free Syrian Army, armed by the Gulf states, continues to gain strength from defections and is able to slowly wrest control of cities from regime forces, what will Putin do?
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Violent security incidents continue to take place due to the lack of a coherent national Libyan security force and the strength of local militias and large numbers of armed groups.
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He described the armed forces as "a pillar of the nation's resilience and strength".
BBC: Pakistan PM Gilani seeks to calm military tensions
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The armed forces have indeed been shrunk, but not without hiccups: army strength, under the peace accords, was to be cut by a third, to 31, 000, but then the generals suddenly claimed it was only 35, 000 anyway, so much smaller cuts were in order.
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"Our strength is in the hundreds, " said Moulana Mohammad Khalil, as heavily armed men openly patrolled the roads in pickup trucks, singing Islamic anthems.
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The total size of the armed forces would shrink from 2.1 million to 1.6 million active-duty end strength and from 1.6 million to around 900, 000 reserves.
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When a convoy of scores of armed jeeps sporting the black flag signalling sympathy for al-Qaeda recently put on a show of strength in Benghazi's courthouse square, where Libya's revolution began in February last year, thousands of young people, summoned to oppose them by Facebook and text messages, poured into the square and forced them to leave.
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