They have so far concentrated exclusively on fighting inside Afghanistan, and many analysts consider their activities central to the army's perceived security interests in South Asia.
The video brought international attention to the activities of Joseph Kony, the notorious leader of the Lord's Resistance Army in central Africa.
Western allies, meanwhile, are being calmed by talk of strengthening Lebanon's army and central state, and by the effective maintenance of a neutral stance in regional diplomacy.
Example: In 2003, the U.S. Army's Central Command--the U.S. military authority for the Middle East--asked Opnet to customize one of its network-management products.
The group has said it hopes the film and other efforts will make Kony a household name and drum up international support to halt killings, rapes, abuses and abductions committed by his group, the Lord's Resistance Army, in central Africa.
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In World War I the Allied strategy was to engage and defeat the center of gravity of the Central Powers, the German field army.
Gnanawathie, a migrant to Colombo from central Sri Lanka, where the army has recruited heavily, laments the mounting number of dead youths from her village.
Both attacks -- at the army barracks in Agadez in central Niger and a Somair uranium mine in Arlit in northern Niger -- happened about 5 a.m.
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Landing Griffin, the son of two U.S. Army sergeants who settled in central Texas, was a recruiting coup for Baylor, though it was something of a package deal.
The training includes elements that have not been central to the work of the Congolese army recently - such as understanding human rights, respecting the rights of women and peacekeeping.
China Central Television, the front page of Liberation Army Daily and major news portals prominently report the foreign ministry's stance that China had taken unspecified but "legitimate and reasonable" actions against the boat.
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.
The hadith relates to an army arising from Khorasan, usually understood as Central Asia, leading to a confrontation and the end times.
He allowed Jean Bedel Bokassa, a former sergeant in the French army, to overthrow David Dacko in the Central African Republic in 1965.
The announcement came as the Ugandan army suspended a search for Kony in the Central African Republic (CAR), blaming "hostility" from its new government.
He disregarded warnings from the national security adviser during the first Gulf War, the chief of staff of the army, two former commanding generals of the Central Command, whose jurisdiction includes Iraq, the director of operations on the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and many, many others with great integrity and long experience in national security affairs.
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AeroVironment hopes to generate sales not just from services like the Army and Air Force, but also from the Central Intelligence Agency, the Department of Homeland Security (for help with border control) and weather services (for storm tracking and disaster recovery).
Sadr's forces, believed to be about 60, 000 strong, could rise up throughout central and southern Iraq, leading to massive battles between the Mehdi Army on one side, and Iraqi and U.S. forces on the other.
Mr Alaka disputes the account by the Ugandan army, which says it seized Mr Acellam in the Central African Republic, one of several nations where the Ugandan-led LRA operates, following a struggle between Ugandan soldiers and a group of 30 rebels.
But Army General Tommy R Franks, who heads the US Central Command and enforces the southern no-fly zone, recommended reducing the number of patrols but maintaining a minimum number to check possible movements of Iraqi troops towards the Saudi and Kuwaiti borders.
Central to Nepal's peace process is the integration into the national army or the rehabilitation to civilian life of more than 19, 000 former Maoist fighters.
The Afghan army, the first step in a possible cantonal system with strong central institutions, is making slow progress.
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Riyad al-Nori was arrested at his house as Army forces carried out a series of raids in the south-central Iraqi city, officials said.
The LRA is no longer in Uganda, but the Ugandan army is chasing after them from bases in South Sudan and the Central African Republic (CAR).
We're partial to General James Mattis, who previously ran the Marine component of Central Command, served tours in Iraq and Afghanistan, and helped write the Army's counterinsurgency manual with General Petraeus.
Mr Acellam is in a Ugandan army base in South Sudan, two weeks after being found in the Central African Republic.
The award will augment TAMUCC-COHNS current activities to allow it to work with the Medical Education and Training Command in San Antonio, Texas, which has recently been designated as the central site for all health care-related training for the Tri-Service (Army, Navy and Air Force).
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Mr. Gates, a former director of the Central Intelligence Agency, said government interrogators should be limited to the techniques contained in the Army Field Manual and barred from using harsher methods.
The U.S. also has special operations teams conducting training missions in central Africa, where governments in Uganda, the Central African Republic and the Democratic Republic of Congo are combating the Lord's Resistance Army, a regional Islamist militia.
Perhaps the central component of the US strategy for stabilizing Iraq is the organization and training of the Iraqi army and police forces.
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