Sentence examples for war intervention from inspiring English sources

In the wake of the Iraq war, intervention became a dirty word, at least in the west – and arguably to calamitous effect.

"War, intervention and occupation in Afghanistan, Iraq and Libya has laid the foundations for the conflict, instability and humanitarian disaster we see now".

I suspect that the influence of her leadership in that strange dispute – the last imperial conflict yet also a foretaste of post-cold war intervention – set the agenda for the Pax Americana of our age.

Hind is on the Advisory Board for the World Bank in the Middle Eastern issues; is a member in the Global Agenda Council for war intervention, World Economic Forum; and is a founding member of the Syrian Centre of Dialogue.

Given the context of SB 1506, i.e. billions of dollars in California budget cuts in education and social services, a new federal crack-down on state medical marijuana laws, and intensification of drug war intervention in Latin American (despite protestations from US allies Mexico, Colombia and Guatemala), approving SB1506 in 2012 will be especially meaningful.

In reality, though, from war to war, intervention to intervention, from the Anti-Drug Brigade ceremony in Florencia, Colombia, to the end-of-the-Kony-hunt observance in Obo in the Central African Republic, there is remarkably little evidence that even enduring efforts by Special Operations forces result in strategic victories or improved national security outcomes.

Votel now sits atop one of the major success stories of a post-9/11 military that has been mired in winless wars, intervention blowback, rampant criminal activity, repeated leaks of embarrassing secrets, and all manner of shocking scandals.

Second, post-cold-war: interventions "mercifully rare".

The American people, however, are demobilised and detached from the wars, interventions, operations, and other military activities done in their name.

And of course, in the post-colonial era, millions have been killed by US and other western forces or their surro gates in wars, interventions and coups from Vietnam to central America, Indonesia to southern Africa.

Yet, for all their magnificence and all those successes, for all the celebratory ceremonies they've attended, the wars, interventions, and other actions for which they've served as the tip of the American spear have largely foundered, floundered, or failed. .