As historian Paul Johnson has written, America around the time Hoover governed had the 16th largest army in the world, behind Romania.
Catterick, just to the south of Richmond town, is home to Britain's largest army base and a new Tesco supermarket is to open soon.
Turkey, which has NATO's second-largest army, fiercely opposed Mr Fogh Rasmussen's candidacy for NATO's top job because he was Denmark's prime minister during the Prophet Muhammad cartoon crisis and because the Danes have refused to ban Roj TV, a satellite channel run by the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) that is beamed out of Denmark.
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Warren says the Wells Fargo-Wachovia deal was driven by Wells' interest in acquiring the "second-largest brokerage army" to foster cross-selling of services for both banking and wealth management clients.
The U.S. Army dedicated its largest solar photovoltaic (PV) system to date at White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico today.
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The unit, which was based in Helmand Province, supplied the Army's largest brigade with ammunition, food, fuel and equipment and provided its heavy lift transport assets.
The outdoor climbing frame, built by the army, is the largest man-made structure for apes in the world, and will encourage the chimpanzees' natural curiosity and intelligence.
Last year the Army was also 7, 000 below its needs, the largest shortfall since 1979 and the first time in six years that the Army failed to make its recruiting target.
In Pakistan, that nation's army has gone on its largest offensive in years.
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TOKYO, Japan -- Tokyo is set to send off its first army team to Iraq in the largest and most dangerous overseas military assignment since World War II.
The ELN (National Liberation Army) is Colombia's second largest rebel group after the Farc, which has declared a ceasefire until 20 January.
The division was the largest division-based task force in U.S. Army history, according to division officials.
Police blamed the morning attacks on the National Liberation Army, or ELN, Colombia's second largest guerrilla force.
Beneath your feet spreads out the world's largest carpet, made by a 1, 200-strong army of the finest Persian carpet weavers.
The facility -- officially known as the U.S. Army Confinement Facility-Europe -- is the largest U.S. military confinement center outside the United States.
The Army said the World War I gun was the largest surviving of all the UK's artillery pieces and one of only 12 surviving in the world.
Lapid has said he will not sit in a government that does not restart moribund peace talks with the Palestinians, but the issue could get sidelined since the largest parties share more common ground on domestic matters like the army draft.
Northrop Grumman is the largest employer in Anne Arundel County, where the state capital and the Army's Fort Meade also are located.
That's new in just the last few weeks, ever since the Iraqi army launched an operation to gain control of its second-largest city.
Working with the Army Corps of Engineers, he undertook an 18-month river-restoration project, the largest such privately funded endeavor in American history.
Last week the Macedonian army drove the rebels from the hills and villages they had occupied around Tetovo, Macedonia's largest ethnic-Albanian town.
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