Next there's a slide of a graveyard in Italy full of young Muslim boys from Pakistan who died fighting the Nazis during the second world war; Punjabi Muslims formed the largest component of the British army outside of the UK in both world wars.
For its part, the CCP publicly affirmed its adherence to the realization of Sun Yat-sen's Three Principles of the People, its abandonment of armed opposition to the KMT and of the forcible confiscation of landlords' property, the substitution of democracy for its soviet government, and the reorganization of the Red Army as a component of the national army under the central government.
By the fall of 1918, the Greeks, with over 300,000 soldiers, were the single largest component of the Allied army on the Macedonian front.
Earlier this month, the Defense Ministry, in a written reply to the Parliament, said, "No irregularities in purchase of components of the Tatra trucks for army have been reported".
Formally, Poland and Lithuania were to be distinct, equal components of the federation, each retaining its own army, treasury, civil administration, and laws; the two nations agreed to cooperate with each other on foreign policy and to participate in a joint Diet.
The principal component of the military is the army, augmented by the Air Wing, the Special Operations Regiment, and Logistic Support Command.
Even so, the Taliban have infiltrated parts of the Afghan army and police--the key components of the US plan to start the handover of power to local forces by July 2011.
THE CUSTOM OF THE ARMY, by Diana Gabaldon.
