(In this respect, Hegel notes, Alexander the Great would not have made a good subject for epic poetry, because "his world was his army"— his creation under his control and so was not truly independent of his will [PKÄ, 213].) Among the great epic poems Hegel discusses are Homer's Odyssey, Dante's Divine Comedy and the mediaeval Spanish poem El Cid.
The result has been the destruction of yet another Arab army, the creation of a crippling humanitarian disaster, the deepening of sectarian schisms and the evisceration of another Arab country.The ultimate target of this plot, so the conspiracy theorists explain, is Egypt itself, the Arabs' most populous, strategic and culturally influential Arab state.
He was promoted to field marshal in 1946 and as supreme commander in India administered the splitting of the Indian army following the creation of Pakistan.
(The Iraqi Army was the creation of the Iraqi government, but it was largely built, trained, and paid for by the Americans).
Born in 1921 in northern Palestine, Mr. Shamir became leader of the Hashomer Hatzair movement and lived on its kibbutz before joining the Palmach, a unit of the underground Haganah army before the creation of Israel in 1948.
The object of this display, a handful of American marines manning a nearby checkpoint, milled about as their commander called through a loudspeaker on the crowd to disperse.The "army" is the creation of Muqtada al-Sadr, a radical Shia cleric who has emerged as the most prominent critic of the American-led coalition, and the appointed Iraqis in the Governing Council.
She subsequently helped develop plans for a women's auxiliary branch for the army, and on creation of the Women's Auxiliary Army Corps (the name was later changed to Women's Army Corps [WAC]) on May 14 , 1942 she was appointed director with relative rank of major, later raised to colonel.
He supported the redesign of army command, the creation of the Territorial Force, and the decision to provide an Expeditionary Force supporting France in the event of war with Germany.
Many of its leading politicians had collaborated with the Pakistani army to prevent the creation of the state that is now prosecuting them, more than four decades later.
For the moment, Ms. Kung said, her goal is not an all-out mobilization of the city's would-be pedestrian army, but rather the creation of structures that would, over time, create that army.
