Yahoo! is weighed down today by dozens of code bases, thousands of revenue-producing properties, at least three sales force factions (display, search, ad network), and a few thousand "extra" employees needed to run the media company today due to its complicated legacy assets and far-flung acquisitions.
When providing weapons to one force or faction, you cannot be sure that they will not someday be directed against you.
Afghanistan is so fragile that it will need vigorous American leadership to ensure vast aid, a major security presence and brutal diplomacy to force the factions to cooperate.
Of course, things could always backfire, and its not hard to see how, especially since Abbas does not recognise the new force, and factions have pledged to make a similar such force in the past and failed.
His political opponents and Western diplomats wonder if Mr. Mugabe is bluffing about a push for quick elections, perhaps to force the factions in his own party to declare their allegiance to him and extinguish the internal jockeying to succeed him.
Boris Y . Nemtsov the leader of the pro-market Union of Right Forces parliamentary faction, argues that oligarchs Abramovich and Mamut are more powerful than ever, thanks to Voloshin.
To prevent national disintegration and push the economy back into action, Hamilton sought to control the centrifugal forces of "faction" — a term which referred to both class and geographic conflict.
Since 2011, no Libyan leader has been able to tame a vast array of armed groups, including rival military forces, tribal factions and renegade oil police, on both sides of the country.
And there are current news reports too, from Lawrence Wright, who enlarges our understanding of the forces and factions that delivered the shock of Sept. 11, 2001, and from Rory Stewart, who opens up the hidden world of Afghanistan.
Equally predictably, the poll was marred by ballot-stuffing and fraud.Under Mr Alkhanov, the Chechen conflict has remained a many-sided power struggle between the Kadyrov militia (now controlled by the ex-president's son, Ramzan), rebel groups and federal forces, and factions within these.
