What is more, the US doctrine is supposed to be "to protect the population".
Their review underscored the need to protect the population and reduce sectarian violence, especially in Baghdad.
Denying that he was responsible for human rights abuses, he said on the contrary he was trying to protect the population.
Interact with the locals more, find out who the bad guys are - but more importantly, protect the population, separate them from the insurgents.
"But because of the inaction of the government in Baghdad and their inability to protect the population they are suffering the way they are now, " he added.
Faced with the migration of these bears, Swiss authorities have the dilemma of whether to try to protect the population as a whole or a few individuals, the environment office said.
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It is a mark of how controversial the issue of civilian casualties is that Maj Mudd cautioned his men to show restraint, telling them "if we fail to protect the population, we will fail in our mission".
General McChrystal has not openly said what his entourage agrees on: to protect the population, NATO will need more troops than the 110, 000 it will have by the end of the year after the reinforcements ordered by Barack Obama.
The first new brigade wouldn't fully arrive until February, but as the bombings increased in January, the 1st Cavalry Division, which already was in the country, escalated its efforts to protect the population, seeking new ways to protect markets, neighborhoods, main roads, and bridges, said Col.
Security Council resolution is to protect the civilian population, and the constant bombardment will continue as long as that mission remains.
Rather, they are being put up to protect the Iraqi population by hindering the ability of terrorists to carry out the car bombings and suicide attacks that are taking the lives of innocent civilians.
You should go to NATO to ask NATO about the specific decisions in terms of bombing missions, but the mission -- the goal of the mission is clear: protect the civilian population, enforce the no-fly zone, enforce the arms embargo.
Russia's state-run Russia Today news channel cited Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov as saying that Hezbollah fighters were in Syria to protect the Shia population and holy sites from the threat posed by Sunni rebel forces.
It said the strikes on Friday demonstrated Nato's "resolve to protect the civilian population of Libya, using appropriate and proportionate force".
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Mr Mandela said the Burundi Government had a responsibility "to defend and protect the Burundian population, and not just a given part of it".
More important, the aim of military operations should be to protect the civilian population and win its trust, not to kill as many insurgents as possible.
John McCain called Monday for the United States to lead an international effort to protect the Syrian population by carrying out piloted airstrikes on Syrian government forces.
He said it will not be possible to protect the Afghan population -- the key to any counterinsurgency strategy -- without a substantial input of additional resources.
It is ultimately their responsibility to protect the civilian population.
The army intervened at Nudo de Paramillo not only out of constitutional duty but also in response to a request by the local mayor to protect the civilian population.
Two exhibits will be dedicated respectively to the particular cases of Bulgaria and of Denmark, in which important parts of the society reacted to protect the Jewish population from deportations.
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The government claims its troops are eliminating terrorist groups that have infiltrated Homs, and it seeks to protect the civilian population from acts of violence and weed out arms obtained illegally by radicals.
Peacekeepers have a special duty to show that the United Nations respects and protects human rights, and protect the lives of the civilian population.
He said he intends to use those forces to protect the general Afghan population.
McChrystal said the goal is to protect population centers to enable the government to improve security and governance.
She added that its aim was to spread the pain, and "seek to distribute the burden of the adjustment fairly among the various segments of the population and to protect the most vulnerable groups".
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And all that attention to detail has included building elevated road crossings for the endangered dormice who live on the course, and tunnels under the holes to the River Usk to protect the native toad population.
The project has a number of aims to protect and restore the seabird population - including the storm petrel and the Manx shearwater - for which the UK has a global responsibility, say conservationists.
This notion that women's natural role as homemakers and mothers gave them a responsibility to act as nature's housekeepers led many socially conservative women to take up environmental activism, campaigning to protect the nation's bird population, which was being decimated by the feather trade, and promoting conservation education in their children's schools.
And the idea of 1973 in part was to protect those citizens and the civilian population areas from that exercise of violence.
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