Moreover, the political result was almost invariably the same: the slaves exploited the military power vested in them to seize control over the legitimate political authorities, often only briefly but sometimes for astonishingly long periods of time.
The Syrian military's use of Scud missiles, reported by American and NATO officials, reflected what they called an effort by Mr. Assad to prevent the opposition from exploiting the military airfields, fighter planes and equipment that have fallen into insurgent hands, and which the Syrian military apparently believes it cannot recapture.
This is a matter of collectively failing to exploit the opportunity the military gained".
It is instead "a multifaceted war where allegiances shift rapidly depending on access to resources, unaddressed grievances and the opportunity for individual politicians and military commanders to exploit the situation to press for military and political advantage".
He never missed an opportunity to exploit the weakness (political, economic, or military) of the adversary or to use intrigue, treachery, and alliance to serve his purposes.
The M.P.s, Taguba said, "were being literally exploited by the military interrogators.
The guerrillas and the Venezuelan military, he complains, both exploit the illegal miners, "taxing" them in gold.
The verdict brought widespread condemnation from human rights groups, who accused Egypt's rulers of exploiting the widely derided military court system to conduct a legal whitewash.
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan -- Pakistan is exploiting the troubled United States military effort in Afghanistan to drive home a political settlement with Afghanistan that would give Pakistan important influence there but is likely to undermine United States interests, Pakistani and American officials said.
"They stage raids, exploiting the vacuum," said the military official in Lawdar.
