"Development which plunders human resourcefulness, forests, land, water, air and food is shortsighted and self-eliminating... but for many leaders, development means extensive farming of cash crops, expensive dams, luxury tourist hotels, airports, hospitals, heavily armed armies and supermarkets.
The New York Times reported that armed army deserters offered protection at one funeral for 20 people on Saturday.
With the ban on the Baath Party and, a week later, the disbandment of Iraq's very sizable, well-trained, and armed army, President Bush, through his man in Iraq, Paul Bremer, essentially acquired a volatile, hostile opposition — a huge number of Iraqis and their dependents who had nowhere else to go and were being told they had no place in the new Iraq.
This is a nuclear-armed army.
Suppose the red-state, nuclear-armed army were to attack us.
SCARE operates at the most militarily conventional end of the irregular-conflict spectrum: the point where an army of guerrillas is already in being and is making life hard for a notionally better-armed army of regular troops.
But it also reflects more recent concerns stoked by the widespread publication of audio recordings which purport to show that senior members of the ruling party strong-armed army officers to influence the outcome of a state election in Ekiti last June.
And although he is reluctant to pick an unnecessary fight with the army establishment, he seems determined to assert civilian supremacy over the armed forces.The army has not done much to back their man either.
The government reported the killings as well but attributed them to "terrorist armed groups," a description it routinely uses for opponents, including armed men, army defectors and protesters in the year-old uprising against President Bashar al-Assad.
Yashin's report also questions why Putin has allowed Kadyrov to assemble a 30,000-strong, heavily armed private army, commonly known as the Kadyrovtsy.
While he was posted in Egypt, he said, senior Egyptian military officials told him of a corruption scheme in which Mr. Mubarak handed out cash to the generals leading each branch of the armed forces — army, navy, air force and air defense force.
