Sentence examples for has armed forces from inspiring English sources

Kuwait has armed forces of about 13,000 men, next-door Iraq about 600,000.

Britain's population is 4% that of China's, and has armed forces of just over 240,000 compared with the vast Chinese People's Liberation Army of over 3.4 million.

The Bahraini government has armed forces numbering some 30,000 – all of whom are Sunni – and police and security services with about the same size, many of them being Baluchi, Yemeni or Syrian.

According to the OSCE site, the agreement stipulates that 90 inspections and 45 evaluation visits can be conducted on the territory of any participating state that has armed forces each year.

Each village has armed forces to protect it from what residents say is a fascist junta based in Kiev.

After all, as Margaret Thatcher said at the time of the Falklands, why else do we have armed forces?

Still, in a country that for years would not acknowledge it had armed forces, the changes in budgets and tactics are significant.

Nobody knows if the "carrier-killer" missile can be made to work.As for China's longer-term intentions, the West should acknowledge that it is hardly unnatural for a rising power to aspire to have armed forces that reflect its growing economic clout.

That group consists of Kurds who already govern northern Iraq, former officials of Iraq's ruling Baath Party with ties to dissidents in the current Iraqi government and Shiite Muslims who have armed forces both in the country and in neighboring Iran.

"It is what you have armed forces for," added Sir David.

The new state would itself have armed forces incomparably more powerful and globally based than any possible competition.