Under Mikhail Gorbachev, its appetite seemed to be for reforms rather than military intervention.
However, an editorial published by the paper favoured a political rather than military approach to resolving the crisis.
He emphasised policing rather than military operations, and the use of indigenous forces.
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They hope he will engage with them, for example, in diplomatic rather than military methods to wean Iran away from the development of a nuclear weapons program.
Still, Keane said by starting out pacifying mixed Sunni-Shi'a neighborhoods, Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki could build up enough trust to use political rather than military means to deal with the notorious militias of Sadr City.
Others have claimed ownership of the victory for Mr Rajapaksa himself, rather than his military chiefs.
The U.S. denounced the launch, but did not consider it a threat to national security, and officials vowed a diplomatic rather than a military response.
Are we seeing the US making a renewed effort to project its sovereignty as a networked superpower, rather than purely a military one?
Pte Manning has also elected to be tried by military judge alone, rather than a judge and panel of military officers, added his lawyer.
Due to their religious observance, most Orthodox girls opt to do national service rather than serve in the military.
But most of the students in the course come from Israel's Defense Ministry and the military rather than from private companies.
And, perhaps most importantly, Mr Obama would focus more on the political side of international conflicts, rather than reaching immediately for military options.
The decision to hold a military rather than a civilian trial remains controversial and follows a lengthy legal wrangle over where the five men would face justice.
They will fall under the U.S. diplomatic mission, rather than report to a military commander, and they will depend on a contract air wing run by the State Department to move around the country.
It could have accepted European offers of increased military collaboration rather than pursuing unilateral action.
Several Republican members of Congress have called for prosecuting AbdulMutallab before a military tribunal rather than in civilian courts.
Conventional wisdom at the time dictated that defense companies should stick with military markets rather than diversifying, but Chabraja was a contrarian who thought he knew better.
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Mostly Republican critics have said AbdulMutallab should have been subjected to military interrogation rather than receiving the rights of a defendant in the U.S. criminal justice system.
McChrystal, rather than rely on his seasoned military public affairs staff, he apparently sought and accepted the advice of a relatively junior and inexperienced civilian "strategic communications" contractor by the name of Duncan Boothby.
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Mr Wolfowitz said that America was prepared to make a massive investment in the Turkish bases, but Turkish officials said they want the UN to agree to any military campaign rather than America take unilateral action.
Much of America's spending has gone on achieving its military objectives, rather than on aid or construction programmes.
It tries to capture the cost of military logistics, rather than environmental impact.
So was his playing down of the Taliban threat a foolish throwaway line, which reflected the brigadier's personal view rather than the consensus among the British military?
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The Europeans will need time to work out exactly who does what in ways that produce a coherent military effort, rather than just the quirky sum of the hotch-potch of national parts.
One suspects that Lansana Gberies' contacts with politicians are rather better than his contacts with the military because this book does not really answer this crucial question - perhaps that should be the subject of his next study.
These would put the accused in the hands of the American military justice system, rather than the local one.
Opposition leader David Cameron of the Conservative Party challenged Brown Wednesday to explain why he was sending 500 troops rather than the 2, 000 which Cameron said military commanders wanted.
Government sources confirm that they hope to marginalise anti-war MPs by focusing Monday's debate on support for the UN resolution, rather than approval of British involvement in any possible military action.
The coalition in turn is having to deal with the legacy of a military that has spent the best part of a decade doing rather more than it had planned for or the tasks it was funded to deliver, as well as the financial and military consequences of a future MoD orders list of expensive equipment that was not necessarily budgeted for.
Mr McCain is a military man who married his money rather than made it.
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