Yet some armies (such as that in Maguindanao) are in cahoots with the police or the army.
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Mr Zardari is no friend of Mr Musharraf or the army: he has accused the ISI of killing his wife.
So Egypt's incoming head of state may be able to appoint a cabinet, but will have no authority over budgets, internal security, foreign affairs or the army.
It will be up to the military service chiefs to recommend whether women should be excluded from more demanding and deadly positions, such as Navy SEALs or the Army's Delta Force.
He was keeping tabs on developments in Uganda from his base in the UK. Whenever some prominent Ugandan businessman came to London to procure items for the government or the army, Ruparelia heard about it.
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With regard to the management culture, the Navy Department is by far the best run of the military departments, and it typically enjoys stronger support from the political system than the Air Force or the Army.
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The attack has caused huge embarrassment to the Afghan government, which claims that it has put in place a stringent mechanism for verification and background checks of all those seeking to join the police or the Afghan army, the BBC's Bilal Sarwary reports from Kabul.
The police or the official army will have to do the actual work.
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Many international companies that get their supplies from Congo directly or indirectly pay the army or rogue soldiers for them.
The Serb government must decide whether to deny such essentials to hospitals and schools or to the army.
Lieutenant General TED STROOP (Retired, U.S. Army): And the real question, which we will not be able to answer until you really see whether or not the Army makes its final recruiting marks and that would be perhaps four to five months after the recruiting year is closed, is whether or not you will find shortages in some of the combat units.
His idea is for an on-call force of police officers based on retained firefighters or the Territorial Army.
Other voices in Ethiopia are calling for a knock-out blow or for the army to retake the disputed areas that Eritrea still occupies, especially near Zalambessa.
"These gentlemen are going to go through some hard times, whether it's in life or in the Army, " said Sottolano, who had to worry about Sunday's doubleheader against archrival Navy.
Despite the American pressure, and despite the worsening toll in human lives exacted by the suicide-bombers, there is little sign of a change of heart in either the army or the Pakistani political opposition.
And the Democrats may further sour the atmosphere by attaching to the budget measures the Republicans oppose, allowing gays to serve openly in the armed forces or granting citizenship to illegal immigrants who join the army or attend university.
Anyone arrested or imprisoned, or who seeks to join the army or police, is scanned.
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.
Before the British raid, Foday Kallay had told relatives he was afraid that if he freed the hostages his fighters would be open to attack from the government army or the UN.
The Bells were very rich: but it was not money that got Gertrude a First at Oxford, or helped her survive encounters with murderous tribes in the desert, or made her a spy or a major in the British army, or qualified her as poet, scholar, historian, mountaineer, photographer, archaeologist, gardener, cartographer, linguist, and distinguished servant of the state.
After 1851, when for the first time a majority of Britons lived in the towns, it is more likely that our ancestors worked in textile factories, iron and steel plants, on the railways, as small shopkeepers and tradesmen or in the vast army of Victorian clerks.
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In a memo on the file, dated 12 February, 1981, C Devenport, an NIO official, noted that during Question Time at Westminster, Rev Ian Paisley had asked the Secretary of State, Humphrey Atkins to confirm or deny that the Army patrol detailed to observe Tynan Abbey on the fatal night was 'being wined and dined in a well-known republican house in the area'.
Once, the wealth of a nation was defined by the expanse of its land, the size of its population or the strength of its army, the abundance of its natural resources.
He said he was unsure whether the firing was from the Army or civilians but assumed the automatic fire could not have come from the Parachute Regiment because of the rules governing engagement in Northern Ireland at the time.
The rest would have to enlist in the army or do civilian service by the age of 22.
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We can pull -- some of those troops obviously will be used for training, either of the Afghan national army or ultimately the Afghan national police.
Captain Martin Walker is a one-man army (or the leader of a three-man army, anyways) whose ability to carve through countless foes is unmatched in any action movie.
If Colonel Qaddafi's state crumbles, the West should not seek to disband his army or the upper echelons of his administration, as it foolishly did in Iraq.
The rebels would have to be defeated or integrated into the new army and an accountable police force would have to be formed too.
But NATO has told Yugoslav military leaders that they must get their 40, 000 troops out quickly, using designated assembly areas, retreat routes and exit points, to ensure they are not attacked by NATO or the Kosovo Liberation Army.
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