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 PARTISAN ACTIONS
In response, 335 Jews, captured partisans and other citizens were killed.
Italy, at this point, had little to offer militarily, but what Italy lacked in military armament, she made up with in hatred for the Germans and the Fascist/Nazi ideology.
Partisan membership grew from some 20,000 in May of 1944 to 200,000 by April of 1945.
http://www.comandosupremo.com/Partisan.html   (1163 words)

  
 Rec Fresh : Article 'Franc Rozman Stane'
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As a young boy he made enthusiastically for the troops, but he was rejected on his asking to join the military school.
Franc Rozman Stane (March 27, 1911 - November 7, 1944), was a legendary Slovene partisan commandant.
http://www.rec-fresh.net/DisplayArticle90750.html   (713 words)

  
 International Security Policy & Military Affairs: Information Sources
This is a selective guide to library materials and Internet resources on international security policy and military affairs.
The Center for Security Policy exists as a non-profit, non-partisan organization to stimulate and inform the national and international debate about all aspects of security policy, notably those policies bearing on the foreign, defense, economic, financial and technology interests of the United States.
The Department of Defense is responsible for providing the military forces needed to deter war and protect the security of our country.
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/indiv/lehman/guides/isc.html   (713 words)

  
 The Structure of The Military Bureau
The Military Bureau is considered to be the highest level part in the military organization of the Iraqi regime and one of the most important unit in the state structure because it deals with the security, military, and partisan matters.
The M.B. is responsible as we mentioned before directly to the organizations of the army politically, economically, partisan, security, and military affairs and has the right to inanimate the commander officers to the sensitive and leading positions such as corps,divisions, and brigade commanders ……etc.
The main duty of this Bureau is feeding all the military units with the Baath party ideas.
http://www.globalsecurity.org/wmd/library/news/iraq/1998/military-bureau.htm   (713 words)

  
 Partisan Press Partisan Game Partisan Review Partisanship
Partisan Partisan may refer to: A member of a lightly-equipped irregular military force formed to oppose control of an area by a foreign power or by an army of occupation.
Partisan game In combinatorial game theory, a game is partisan or partizan if it is not impartial.
Partisan Defense Committee The Partisan Defense Committee describes itself as a "a class-struggle, non-sectarian legal and social defense organization that champions cases and causes in the interests of the whole of the working people.
http://www.masterliness.com/a/Partisan.Press.htm   (713 words)

  
 Iraq duty calls 1,000 from Davis-Monthan Air Force Base
There may also be another explanation for the longer tours over Iraq, said military analyst Stephen Baker, a retired Navy rear admiral now at the Center for Defense Information, a Washington, D.C.-based non-partisan think tank for military matters.
The Air Force started offering the three-month tours in 2000 as part of a plan to reduce stress on pilots and other personnel who were leaving the military, citing overwork and erratic schedules.
The Air Force now says longer tours are needed this time around to compensate for shortages of pilots, enlisted air crews, military police and other specialty jobs.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/fr/733910/posts   (1037 words)

  
 LHCMA Catalogue: THE WASHINGTON VERSION, television documentary about the Gulf War
Mentions the formation of a bi-partisan committee to raise support for military intervention in Kuwait and the arguments used; meeting of bi-partisan committee with George H W Bush, US President, 1989-1993; his own rationale for supporting military intervention; drafting of the Congress resolution giving the President the authority to take military action.
Also comments on the development of the military operation, its objectives, success of the operation and the decision to cease hostilities.
Also recalls his meetings with Saddam Hussein, Iraqi President, in 1982 and 1987, and his Feb 1991 meeting with Yevgeny Maksimovich Primakov, Soviet negotiator.
http://www.kcl.ac.uk/lhcma/cats/washington/xw50-01-.shtml   (1037 words)

  
 Romania
Romania has participated in all NATO political and military initiatives in South East Europe, and has coordinated a large number of projects in the area of security, diplomacy and internal affairs within the Stability Pact.
Romania’s foreign and security policy has evolved in a bi-partisan or, more precisely, a pluri-partisan pattern wherein basic international arrangements and commitments remained the same irrespective of the different governments’ political color.
In accordance with the new force structure plans (Objective Force 2003-2007), the military structures will be organized on Active and Territorial Forces with an overall strength of about 90,000 (75,000 military and 15,000 civilians) and a level of professionalization of 90% for the active component.
http://www.roembus.org/english/journal/armata/romanian_digest_06-02.htm   (2047 words)

  
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The Croatian Armed Forces - which are helping Montenegro's [highly partisan police, the ] MUP - are receiving US military aid under the 'train and equip' program.
The military invasion and occupation of Kosovo is but a stage in the broader process of attempted economic conquest and political destabilisation of Yugoslavia.
Financed by US military aid, Military Professional Resources Inc (MPRI), a mercenary outfit linked to the Pentagon, has been responsible for officer training under the so-called Croatian Armed Forces Readiness and Training System (CARTS).
http://www.emperors-clothes.com/articles/chuss/warnot.htm   (1517 words)

  
 Scoop: An Investigation into the CIA’s 'Black Budget'
While the military leadership of the DoD is outside the partisan political arena, this is not the case for the appointment of the civilians who take on key positions as Secretaries, Deputy Secretaries, and Undersecretaries of the different military services in the DoD with each new administration.
This meant that an organization based on the wartime model of a relatively small organization that conducted covert operations (the OSS) would be formally responsible for all US intelligence activities both military and civilian.
The various military intelligence agencies in turn hire private contractors and/or provide the necessary military resources for these covert programs to be conducted in national laboratories, military bases, private corporations or other classified locations.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0401/S00151.htm   (1517 words)

  
 Military dictatorship - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Military regimes tend to portray themselves as non-partisan, as a "neutral" party that can provide interim leadership in times of turmoil, and also tend to portray civilian politicians as corrupt and ineffective.
Military dictatorships can be contrasted with other forms of dictatorship.
dictatorships, a military dictatorship may be official or unofficial, and as a result may not actually qualify as stratocratic (some military dictators, like Manuel Noriega, are nominally subordinate to the civil government).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_dictatorship   (1517 words)

  
 NDI - National Democratic Institute for International Affairs
Throughout the 1970s, 1980s and into the early 1990s, Cambodia was plagued by the existence of fractionalized partisan military formations that aggravated political rivalries, and by soldiers who tried to seize political power.
Successful military reform will require the engagement and cooperation of all sectors of society: the military itself, government, and civil society.
Participants numbered over 350 and represented a broad range of actors in Cambodian society, including: members of the national assembly and the senate, government officials, military officials, representatives of civil society and NGOs, students, Buddhist monks and nuns, military police officials, diplomats, police officials, and journalists.
http://www.ndi.org/globalp/civmil/programscm/cambodia/cambodia_202_pf.asp   (427 words)

  
 The War of American Independence
Calhoon, Robert M. "Civil, Revolutionary, or Partisan: The Loyalists and the Nature of the War for Independence." In Stanley J. Underdahl, editor, Military History of the American Revolution: The Proceedings of the 6th Military History Symposium United States Air Force Academy 10-11 October 1974 (Washington: Office of Air Force History, 1976), pp.
Steppler, Glenn A. "The Uniform of Lieutenant Jeremiah French 2nd Battalion, King's Royal Regiment of New York 1780-1783." Military Collector and Historian, 32 (Winter 1980), pp.
Manders, Eric I. "Butler's Rangers, 1778-1784." Military Collector and Historian, 13 (Winter 1961), p.
http://www.army.mil/cmh-pg/reference/revbib/loyalp.htm   (3524 words)

  
 Pravda.RU Prostitutes Steal Secret Software from US Army
Military exercises are regularly held on Europe's largest training area, which is located in Poland.
As November draws near (and it is supposed that the military operation in Iraq will star in November), it is becoming more and more interesting to watch what the key players, the USA and Iraq, are doing.
Since Poland became a NATO member, military exercises of the fifth corps have been regularly held in Poland.
http://english.pravda.ru/main/2002/10/22/38519.html   (2471 words)

  
 Military strategy - encyclopedia article about Military strategy.
The father of modern strategic study, Carl von Clausewitz Carl Phillip Gottlieb von Clausewitz (June 1, 1780 - November 16, 1831) was a Prussian general and influential military thinker.
The US Army War College Strategic Studies Institute publishes several dozen papers and books yearly focusing on current and future military strategy and policy, national security, and global and regional strategic issues.
defined 13 principles in his The Art of War The Art of War (Chinese: 孫子兵法; pinyin: sūn zĭ bīng fǎ; literally "Sun Tzu's Military Strategy") is a Chinese military text written during the 6th century BC by Sun Tzu.
http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/military+strategy   (4968 words)

  
 CHINA / TAIWAN / MILITARY
He says China's two-and-one-half-million active-duty troops and 35-hundred combat aircraft seem intimidating, until you realize that Beijing lacks the ships and boats needed to transport a major military force across more than 100 kilometers of ocean to reach Taiwan, and that many of the planes in China's air force are older than their pilots.
Military experts take the tensions seriously, because China has millions of troops, thousands of combat aircraft, and hundreds of ballistic missiles.
Greg May is a China scholar at the Nixon Center, a non-partisan institute that studies key U-S national-security issues, including policy toward China.
http://www.globalsecurity.org/wmd/library/news/china/2000/000306-prc3.htm   (921 words)

  
 Commentary Magazine - Our Depleted Society, by Seymour Melman
...As HIS previous writings document, Seymour Melman is no partisan of the military path to prosperity...
...If military expenditure has really weakened the American economy, what should the condition be of a Russian economy which has been devoting twice as large a percentage of its GNP to defense and space...
...Melman is convinced that military and space programs have drained the civilian sector of the first-class talents that once made America the competitive star of the world...
http://www.commentarymagazine.com/Summaries/V41I1P82-1.htm   (921 words)

  
 Congressman John E. Peterson Press Office
Peterson continued, “As of last week, military retention and recruitment rates were at or above target levels, not only for active duty military but also for the National Guard and Reserves.
The bill, which was introduced by New York Democrat Charles Rangel and sponsored by close to a dozen liberal Democrats in the U.S. House, has been the subject of recent Internet rumors, an erroneous CBS News report by Dan Rather, and scare tactics by partisan campaign operatives.
– U.S. Congressman John Peterson (R-PA/5) made the following statement following today’s overwhelming 402 - 2 vote in the U.S. House of Representatives to reject a Democratic bill that would have reinstated the military draft.
http://www.house.gov/johnpeterson/press/oct04/100504draft.htm   (252 words)

  
 International Security Policy & Military Affairs: Information Sources
An information clearinghouse on the views, activities and policy initiatives falling under the rubric of "environment, population and security." The ECSP acts as a neutral, non-partisan forum for researchers, practitioners and interested individuals to meet, exchange ideas and concerns, and develop cross-disciplinary dialogue.
The Center for Security Policy exists as a non-profit, non-partisan organization to stimulate and inform the national and international debate about all aspects of security policy, notably those policies bearing on the foreign, defense, economic, financial and technology interests of the United States.
The International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS), founded in 1958, is an independent centre for research, information and debate on the problems of conflict, however caused, that have, or potentially have, an important military content.
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/indiv/lehman/guides/isc.html   (252 words)

  
 Amazon.de: English Books: The Cruel Hunters: SS-Sonderkommando Dirlewanger, Hitler's Most Notorious Anti-Partisan Unit (Schiffer Military History)
Amazon.de: English Books: The Cruel Hunters: SS-Sonderkommando Dirlewanger, Hitler's Most Notorious Anti-Partisan Unit (Schiffer Military History)
Zum Seitenanfang : The Cruel Hunters: SS-Sonderkommando Dirlewanger, Hitler's Most Notorious Anti-Partisan Unit (Schiffer Military History)
While all of this is frightening to remember, I asked myself how the Dirlewanger unit was overlooked for so long by the military historians or by students of the Holocaust.
http://www.amazon.de/exec/obidos/ASIN/0764304836   (252 words)

  
 [Projekat Rastko] Miroslav Savkovic: Cinematography in Serbia during the Second World War 1941-1945
Immediately following the liberation of Belgrade, October 20th, 1944, the cinematographic activity of the first war military cinematographic institution on the Yugoslav level was initialized, namely The Film Section of the Superior Headquarters of the National Liberation Army and the Partisan Units of Yugoslavia (The Film Section of Yugoslavia) was founded.
Cinematographic Activities in the National Liberation Army until the Formation of the Film Section of the General Headquarters of the National Liberation Army and the Partisan Units of Serbia
The first organized cinematographic activities in the military units of the National Liberation Army (NLA) occurred as late as the summer of 1944 when the war circumstances were favorable.
http://www.rastko.org.yu/filmtv/msavkovic-1941-1945.html   (252 words)

  
 Fight the ReichWing: 2003-11-16
The wall between objective journalism and partisan politicking at Fox News fell last week when it became clear that Fox News staff contributed to the orchestration of the Republican-led 39-hour Senate talk-a-thon intended to counter the Democrat filibuster against four of President Bush’s most radically conservative judicial nominees.
I am talking now about that quasi-official partisan press ideologically linked to an authoritarian administration that in turn is the ally and agent of the most powerful interests in the world.
In Cobbett’s day you could flaunt your partisan banners as you cut and thrust, and not inflict serious damage on open public discussion because there were plenty of competitors.
http://evilorstupid.blogspot.com/2003_11_16_evilorstupid_archive.html   (252 words)

  
 Books & Literature : Washington's Partisan War, 1775-1783
While Washington's Partisan War may be useful to some studying specific aspects of the middle states duringthe conflict, this book should be avoided by the general reader for the reasons above, as well as its terrible prose.
Books and Literature : Washington's Partisan War, 1775-1783
Washington's Partisan War is an unreadable, poorly focused study of the militia in the northern states during the Revolution.
http://www.literature.order-home.com/washington_partisan_1775_0873386116.html   (252 words)

  
 Soviet Military Orders
The recommendation for award of the decoration, sent in by the Revolutionary Military Council of the Third Army, into which Blyukher's partisan army was incorporated, said: "The raid made by Comrade Blyukher's forces under impossible conditions can only be equated with Suvorov's crossings in Switzerland."
The 10,000-strong South Urals Partisan Army under Blyukher's command accomplished a heroic raid behind the lines of the Whites.
In the second half of the 1920s, he was given still another, fifth order for his work as a military adviser to the revolutionary government of China.
http://www.sadcom.com/pins/article/su_orders.htm   (252 words)

  
 William Francis Patrick Napier - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
It is to be noted that he displays the spirit of the partisan, even when most impartial, and defends his opinions, even when most undoubtedly true, as if he were arguing some controverted question.
Sir William Francis Patrick Napier (December 7, 1785- February 12, 1860), British soldier and military historian, third son of Colonel George Napier (1751-1804) was born at Celbridge, near Dublin.
As a military historian Sir William Napier is incomparably superior to any other English writer, and his true compeers are Thucydides, Caesar and Davila.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Francis_Patrick_Napier   (1593 words)

  
 Dinarska Divizija
This Partisan odred was more of an annoyance than a real military threat to the DCD, but it still had to be dealt with.
The Chetniks in the Gracac area were suprised at the Partisan attack and were forced to pull back, but did not lose their cohesiveness as a unit, thus turning the Partisan victory into an tactical victory by not destroying the Chetnik power base in Lika.
These two men were ordered to stay in their home region, after the Partisan retreat in February and March 1943, and try and reform some sort of communist force in the area of Grahovo.
http://www.angelfire.com/ct3/cetnickiponos/dinarska/divizija.html   (1593 words)

  
 VDARE.com: SALUTE-ing Mexico’s Proliferating Military Incursions, by Jon E. Dougherty
The incidence of foreign military invading U.S. soil is not a partisan problem, it is an American leadership problem.
In other words, the level of foreign military activity along portions of the U.S. border is so frequent a special reporting system had to be adopted to keep track of them.
Another regular occurrence that is hard to fathom by anyone who hasn't seen it firsthand is the fact that Mexican military units and some police have also been spotted by USBP agents and American civilians funneling groups of illegal aliens northward into the United States.
http://www.vdare.com/misc/dougherty_invasion.htm   (694 words)

  
 An Expose on Base Realignment and Closure Commissions
The purpose of the Base Closure and Realignment Commissions (known as BRAC even though the letters do not line up) is to ensure that the process of downsizing the military infrastructure is not influenced by partisan politics.
As well, the mandate to recover the cost of closing a military base within six years was too restrictive and had prevented the closing of several obsolete installations.
Military bases are one of the most common sources of defense dollars, hence, their closure would stop any monies that local businesses may have received.
http://www.airpower.maxwell.af.mil/airchronicles/cc/schwalbe.html   (6998 words)

  
 Missouri History - Flags Of The Rebellion
Although many Northern histories consider the Partisan Ranger to be bushwhackers, they were only waging the type war that had already been committed against them and their families.
Beyond doubt, Annie Fickle's love of the Missouri Partisan men was truly heartfelt, and this flag was actually carried by captain Quantrill and his men out of the deep respect for the courage shown by this young Missouri girl.
Occupational troops from Kansas, Iowa, Illinois, Michigan and Wisconin raped, pillaged, burned and destroyed much of Western & West Central Missouri, and the Partisan Rangers were at times the only defense the people of Missouri had.
http://www.rulen.com/moflag   (1066 words)

  
 Online NewsHour: Military Endorsements -- September 25, 2000
And I think it puts the uniformed military of today, those that are on active duty, that puts a bigger burden on them and an unfair burden on them, I think, as they go about their day-to-day business of leading the young men and women of the armed forces.
And you've got a great difference between the American military and the perception and degree of confidence the American people have on the American military -- have for the American military versus the politicians.
And too often many of these political issues have been made partisan by politicians.
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/military/july-dec00/military_9-25.html   (1581 words)

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