The final straw came when the British cut payments to the tribes who guarded vital supply routes, guaranteeing widespread revolts.
Yemeni troops have stepped up security across Sana, the capital, with checkpoints set up and tanks and other military vehicles guarding vital institutions.
Yemeni troops have stepped up security across Sana'a, with multiple checkpoints set up and tanks and other military vehicles guarding vital institutions.
We need a stronger mandate than regulation and the occasional public shaming of a clueless leader of an organization chartered with guarding vital information.
Police checkpoints are up all over the country, there are tanks stationed in the centre of the capital Manama, a curfew from midnight until early morning and more than 1,000 troops and police from neighbouring Arab Gulf states helping to guard vital installations.
In 1955 I was a newly minted infantry second lieutenant, stationed in what was then the Panama Canal Zone, a platoon leader in a combat regiment assigned to guard vital installations around the Panama Canal and to train men in jungle warfare, should the United States Army ever need those skills (as indeed it did a decade later, in Vietnam).
Some 90,000 Iraqis now work for American occupation authorities, including police, border patrol officers and guards protecting vital infrastructure.
The following day they attacked an American artillery battery which was guarding a vital concrete bridge near Kujin.
As the 3rd Infantry Division advanced, pressing gains from the Chinese, the company was used to guard a vital bridge over the Hantan River.
Assessing that most refugees had left, he ordered his units to advance and sent a detachment to guard a vital tunnel leading south towards Zulfugarli.
