And when on the archipelago of outposts from which they work, these same soldiers routinely have access to weapons carried by the Taliban, including Kalashnikov assault rifles, PK machine guns, rocket-propelled-grenade launchers and 82-millimeter mortars.
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Soldiers from the island fought under the Spanish flag against Bernardo O'Higgins, Chile's national hero, and Chilean history textbooks describe it as Spain's last outpost in South America, from which it was expelled only in 1826.
It also established a store-minding colonial outpost in Goa, India, from which new art emerged, part Indian, part European and entirely something else.
Elements of the 31st Division embarked from Morotai in November to capture several islands off New Guinea from which Japanese outposts could observe Allied movements.
Alaska became a significant military outpost during World War II as a base from which to attack the Japanese, who had invaded parts of the Aleutian Island chain, and to provide military assistance, primarily combat aircraft, to Russia.
On 8 July the 9th Squadron captured a Turkish outpost 4 mile to the west of Beersheba, from which they could clearly see the village's defences.
The spiral of decline began with Berti Vogts – an ill-conceived reign from which Scotland have stumbled, largely blindly, to their present outpost as the 66th team in Fifa's rankings.
For a European island outpost with a population of just 330,000, it was a fairly heroic achievement from which they hope to progress by qualifying for Euro 2016.
Whether they like it or not, the country from which we declared independence on that July day in 1776 is becoming less a part of the Old World and more an outpost of the new.
