Their expansion into the vacuum left by the collapse of civilian administration in many places worries liberal Pakistanis.
That junta has since stepped down in favor of a transitional civilian administration, but it wields influence in the military.
But don't expect change overnight - Pakistan's powerful military is unlikely to cede Afghan policy easily to the new civilian administration.
Since being elected in November 2010, the civilian administration of President Thein Sein has freed many political prisoners and relaxed censorship.
To this end, they ask the coalition to provide a plan of action, and a timetable, for handing civilian administration to the council.
It suggests that the army feels that the fiction it has been maintaining that it is merely helping a civilian administration hold elections has become unsustainable.
While militants have been driven out from some areas, the territory they once occupied has not yet been fully secured under a civilian administration.
Deniyev served as a deputy to Akhmat Kadyrov, a Muslim clergyman who heads Russia's civilian administration in the region, where Russian troops are fighting Chechen independence rebels.
Western sanctions against Burma have been loosened following the series of reforms introduced since the end of outright military rule in 2011 by the Thein Sein-led civilian administration.
Locals in Ambon argue that the military, threatened by a civilian administration and the possibility of prosecution for human-rights abuses, has again manipulated the violence to justify an iron hand.
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As for its civilian administration, that has barely started.
The temptation to increase money supply and fuel inflationary pressures in this environment may be too difficult to resist for a civilian administration eager to avoid making political enemies early in its remit.
Clashes have erupted in Egypt since an uprising led to the toppling of Mubarak in February of last year, with protesters demanding the military leaders who took over hand over power to a civilian administration.
It boycotted parliamentary elections in 2010 because of election laws it said were unfair, but won 43 seats in by-elections in 2012, including one for Aung San Suu Kyi, as a reform process introduced by the nominally civilian administration of President Thein Sein gathered pace.
It boycotted parliamentary polls in 2010 because of election laws it said were unfair, but won 43 seats in by-elections in 2012, including one for Aung San Suu Kyi, as a reform process introduced by the nominally civilian administration of President Thein Sein gathered pace.
In order to provide full autonomy to the inhabitants, under these arrangements the Israeli military government and its civilian administration will be withdrawn as soon as a self-governing authority has been freely elected by the inhabitants of these areas to replace the existing military government.
Early that year Abacha's petroleum minister, Dauzia Loya Etete, awarded himself a license to develop OPL 245 and set up Malabu as the license holder. (Though technically not an owner, Etete is widely believed to control Malabu.) After Abacha's dictatorship collapsed, the civilian administration of President Olusegun Obasanjo set up a panel to review oil licenses and revoked a number of them.
In the face of massive criticism over his administration's decision to try the September 11 mastermind in a civilian courtroom in New York, the administration opted to treat the Christmas bomber as a criminal defendant as well.
In addition, several sources said Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said she was concerned with having enough troops present in Afghanistan to support the Obama administration's civilian efforts, suggesting she may be leaning toward more additional troops as well.
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More importantly, unlike Mr Haqqani, whether it is Pakistan's military or civilian leadership or the US administration, anyone dealing with her will have the confidence that she is just what she comes across as, a straight-talking politician rather than a career bureaucrat skilled in the art of double speak and intrigue.
The Obama administration's own civilian and uniformed defense leaders have warned that the effects of such a one-two punch would be catastrophic.
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At the start of the Obama administration, strengthening of civilian governmental institutions in Pakistan was considered the long-term solution to extremism linked to Pakistan.
The Administration has cut the civilian Federal workforce by over 316, 000 employees, giving us the smallest workforce in 35 years and, as a share of total civilian employment, the smallest since 1931.
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Due to the administration's aversion to civilian casualties, preventing civilian casualties has become a chief fighting aim for the US military.
Saturday's vote, if successful, would mark the first time since Pakistan's establishment in 1947 that a civilian government is succeeded by another elected administration.
China has also agreed to promulgate a clear and comprehensive export control regime for nuclear equipment, services and technology....We encourage you to build upon the progress which your administration has made in the civilian nuclear area by sending to Congress the necessary certifications which will enable you to implement the 1985 U.S.-China Agreement for Nuclear Cooperation.
Those alleged to have engaged in such activities include a senior Bush Administration political appointee as well as civilian officials of the State and Defense Department and several military officers.
Washington (CNN) -- Cyberspace will not be militarized by the United States to protect the country from attacks on civilian computer networks, according to the Obama administration's nominee to head the new U.S. Cyber Command.
The way the Pentagon and White House have responded to failures at Walter Reed with profuse apologies and by firing a general and a highly placed civilian is different from how the administration acted after the last major military scandal.
The Obama administration's decision to redirect the civilian space program to a private-public partnership is smart.
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