Perhaps it is the military connection or maybe it is the practicalities of life on a historic and much fought-over frontier but support for independence appears decidedly lukewarm in this rich farmland with its patchwork of ploughed fields, mossy bridges and stone houses.
The Germans took a total of 700,000 prisoners, and about 80,000 Polish soldiers escaped over neutral frontiers.
They fear this might end individual countries' control over their frontiers; some of Mr Giscard d'Estaing's closest aides agree that this article will have to be changed.
Experimental results in simulated and real environments show that, depending on the environment, applying POMDP based planning for exploration can improve performance over frontier exploration.
Johnson capitalized on Pownall's concern over frontier security to draw him into his camp.
Mackinder saw history being made on the Northwest frontier of India, but the Empire bled to death on the fields of France in fear of what might happen elsewhere, and by the time it got to India it handed over that frontier, out of exhaustion and a growing reluctance to fight for a possession that did not want to be possessed.
All of that changed this week, when the Islamists suddenly charged southward with a force of 800 to 900 fighters in 50 to 200 vehicles, taking over a frontier town that had been the de facto line of government control, according to General Ham and a Western diplomat.
In Syria, Kurdish forces, including those allied to the P.K.K., have taken over territory and frontiers abandoned by the retreating troops of the Damascus regime.
In ancient times (as in our own) weapon-wielding robbers ambushed travelers, and tribal armies clashed over shifting frontiers.
It can be a liability when its own problems – like the tension with its Kurdish population – spill over those frontiers.
