On the other hand, having a strong army may help to ensure that relations with Peru stay peaceful.
The thinking was that there would never be any meaningful development in Sierra Leone until a strong army, answerable to a democratically-elected government, was in place.
We have a strong army, we have a lot of our people who are supporting the government, who are uniting their ranks to defend the country.
We have asked for the support of the United Nations on various levels: first of all, on the military level, because a strong army and strong armed forces could defend Lebanon against hostility of the enemy.
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Helping the paid staff is a 50-strong army of volunteers, the Friends of Edgcumbe Park.
Mr Lebed, a law-and-order nationalist with a strong claim on the army vote, is taking quite a risk with his career.
Beneath your feet spreads out the world's largest carpet, made by a 1, 200-strong army of the finest Persian carpet weavers.
But in any case the Pakistani military is a very strong military - it has a half a million standing army.
Mr. Karzai remains suspicious, too, of the second main pillar of the American war plan: the creation of a 352, 000-strong Afghan army and police force.
He wants a strong peso, would put the army on the streets to fight crime and, in foreign policy, would return Argentina to automatic alignment with the United States.
He is likely to use it to ensure a strong role for the president and for the army even after civilians return to power.
General Musharraf will no doubt say that a strong presidency and a constitutional role for the army are preferable to lurching from democracy to dictatorship and back, as Pakistan has done throughout its 54-year history.
Mr. GOCSHEL: The people who drew up the plans for Lebanon didn't want the central state to have strong order like an army and a police who could tell those sectarian groups and militias or who could keep them, you know, under control.
There is a notion, dear to America, that General Musharraf could be a strong civilian president, overseeing the prime minister and the army.
The Afghan army, the first step in a possible cantonal system with strong central institutions, is making slow progress.
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There will likely be a significant drop-off in demand for the munitions that the unit supplies to the Army and Marine Corps, but GD has built up a strong base of support in Congress for protecting its core vehicle franchises.
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Bozize was a strong supporter of African efforts to dismantle Kony's Lord's Resistance Army and allowed the creation of two anti-Kony military bases in his country.
As a result, recruitment is ahead of target, with the army now 134, 000 strong.
It helps explain his surprisingly strong partnership with Ehud Barak, the leader of the Labour Party (and a former army chief of staff and prime minister), trusted as the only man able to handle the big security issues.
It would include a 100-strong neutral force, which would be in command, 100 troops from the Congolese army, and 100 members of the M23, Nyakairima said.
Incoming President Uribe wants to double the size of Colombia's army and national police, as well as to create a 1-million-strong civilian militia to help keep the peace in a country in which much of the area is not easily accessible.
When the folksy, septuagenarian former army driver began a new hunger strike at a ground in Mumbai on Tuesday demanding a strong anti-corruption law, only a few hundred people turned up.
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