Armed Forces
The armed forces of a country are its government-sponsored defense, fighting forces, and organizations. They exist to further the foreign and domestic policies of their governing body, and to defend that body and the nation it represents from external and internal aggressors. In some countries paramilitary forces are included in a nation's armed forces. Armed force is the use of armed forces to achieve political objectives.
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... The Armed Forces of the Republic of Belarus (Belarusian Узброеныя сілы Рэспублікі Беларусь - УС РБ, Uzbrojenyja sily Respubliki Bielaruś, Russian Boopy ... In 2007 the IISS estimated that personnel in the armed forces numbered 72,940 (IISS 2007), although a reduction to 60,000 was planned ... The previous Belarusian National Republic of March 1918 to 1919 did not have time to create armed forces in its brief existence, although attempts to ...
... The obvious benefit to a country in maintaining armed forces is in providing protection from foreign threats and from internal conflict ... In recent decades armed forces personnel have also been used as emergency civil support roles in post-disaster situations ...
... Elements and the General Staff of the Armed Forces ... Combat Support Elements of the Armed Forces included Reconnaissance, Electronic Warfare, Signals, Engineer, NBC Defence, Navigation and Topography, and Maintenance ... Logistic Elements of the Armed Forces provided Material Support, Logistic Support, Medical Support, Veterinarian Support, and Military Construction ...
... district headquarters were put under control of the Land Forces Command ... In the early 1960s the armed forces were divided into the Army Operational and territorial defense ... This was in accordance with the United Armed Forces of the Warsaw Pact ...
... The Liberian ground forces currently consist of two infantry battalions and supporting units ... strong), Brigade Training Unit (162 strong, now retitled the Armed Forces Training Command, located at Camp Ware under Major Wleh), and a military police company (105 strong) ... The force operates according to slightly modified United States Army practices, and uses U.S ...
Famous quotes containing the words forces and/or armed:
“I don’t think that a leader can control to any great extent his destiny. Very seldom can he step in and change the situation if the forces of history are running in another direction.”
—Richard M. Nixon (1913–1995)
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Under it wisdom stands, and I alone
Of all Arabia’s lovers I alone
Nor dazzled by the embroidery, nor lost
In the confusion of its night-dark folds,
Can hear the armed man speak.”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)