Colombo 7, therefore, is also a zone of elaborate security arrangements: blockaded streets picketed with military guards, men crouched in the shade cradling assault rifles, walled compounds and, in some of them, private militias.
What Russia is entitled to, just as we have always claimed [for ourselves], is a zone of national security on its borders...
The idea is to have a single zone of security and economic cooperation, the officials said, that will pull Russia closer to Europe but apart from the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.
This commitment entails the adoption of regional models of security successfully implemented in the post World War era (along the lines of the Helsinki process) culminating in a regional zone of security and stability.
Living high and mighty, consuming more than their share of the world's food and fuel, feeling secure within their borders and even reasonably safe outside them, they could envision a boundless zone of security in which American money and power and culture and technology would insure some sort of peace.
Scores of Afghan civilians were killed by a suicide bomber National Post: Sunday morning Feb 17 , 2008 at a dog-fighting rally 10 kilometres northwest of Kandahar city, an area that falls inside the Canadian military's zone of security and combat operations in southern Afghanistan.
One might say that the policy worked, as in the end France got a permanent seat on the UN security council and a zone of occupation in Germany.
The belief that a zone of democracy equaled a zone of peace and security buttressed the desire of the George W. Bush administration to use force to topple Saddam Hussein's dictatorship in Iraq and its expectation that the democratization of that country would result in the spread of democracy throughout the Middle East.
But Congress should not "rush to judgment," Captain Miller said, because the solution to the threat against airliners will require many fixes and "zones of security".
This strategy, known in counterinsurgency doctrine as the "ink spot" approach (because zones of security gradually spread out from population centers), has also been proposed by the military expert Andrew Krepinevich.
The reassessment could be grounded in the necessary recognition that other powerful nations do have zones of security, and that neither NATO nor the United States has the charter or the resources to police the world.
