He has maintained close ties to the British, who have helped to train the Omani military, enabling the sultan to put down separatist unrest in Dhofar Province.
But the thinking was that it would lessen the burden on the American military, enable Washington to shrink the number of troops, reduce American casualties and help transfer power to a sovereign Iraqi government.
"The military enables young people in certain units to get technological skills, to run large technological projects at a very young age, where they need to improvise in order to get fast solutions," says Prof Niron Hashai from the Jerusalem School of Business Administration at Hebrew University.
Fanompoana labor among the population of Imerina could include conscription into the military, enabling the queen to raise a standing army that was estimated at 20,000 to 30,000 soldiers.
His expertise as a metalworker and his military background enabled him to make ammunition.
The legend of Toussaint Louverture is that of an illiterate slave whose innate military genius enabled the….
Stuyvesant's military background enabled him to spruce up the disorderly town, and he soon granted it recognition as an independent city (1653).
The legend of Toussaint Louverture is that of an illiterate slave whose innate military genius enabled the overthrow of the slave system on Saint Domingue, and the rise of the Haitian republic, at the start of the nineteenth century.
Cleburne joined a local regiment as a private, but his military experience enabled him to rise to the rank of brigadier general a month before his first battle, at Shiloh.
Nowadays, most scholars believe that Ike's half-century of military leadership enabled him to spend only what was necessary and avoid ruinous inflation -- even though he knew he would be derided by critics as a do-nothing president who was deaf to a growing danger.
