And of course Russia didn't have much luck using military force to subdue a (potential) Islamist state on its border the one and only time they intervened, post WWII, in a country outside its existing sphere of domination.
Last month, four people died in protests against an American-owned gold and copper mine there, Freeport McMoRan, regularly Indonesia's largest taxpayer.At the same time, the Indonesian government still uses wholly disproportionate force to subdue a tiny and poorly equipped Papuan independence movement.
The resilience of the protesters in the face of ruthless force and intimidation has proved that force alone cannot subdue a population of 85 million people when their mind is set on resistance.
This envisages an almost non-existent state whose role is largely limited to providing the security forces required to subdue a dissatisfied population.
The king's second son, Lionel of Antwerp, attempted to subdue by force the largely autonomous Anglo-Irish lords in Ireland.
That number reflected something of the toll suffered by Qaddafi forces in efforts to subdue a city that with the help of NATO aircraft and supplies sent by sea has thus far fought them off.
Although in several cases in recent years the police have been criticized for using excessive force to subdue an emotionally disturbed person, police officials said the officers in this case had acted within the Police Department's guidelines, according to a preliminary investigation.
She grudgingly agrees to venture through a portal to subdue the forces of darkness that are threatening Yonderland.
The Army had never before entered the Tribal Areas to subdue them by force; after British troops were defeated there, during the late imperial period, colonial and Pakistani governments had favored a system premised upon local autonomy.
"Gender inequality is driving the pandemic, and we will never subdue the gruesome force of AIDS until the rights of women become paramount in the struggle," he said.
Because the Congolese army had been in disarray since the mutiny, Lumumba wanted to use the UN troops to subdue Katanga by force.
