forces
... captured by the Spanish conquistadors in 1533. Peruvian independence was declared in 1821, and remaining Spanish forces defeated in 1824. After a dozen years of military rule, Peru returned to democratic leadership ...
www.exxun.com/Peru/a_fg.html
forces
... year transition. In 1942 the islands fell under Japanese occupation during World War II, and US forces and Filipinos fought together during 1944-45 to regain control. On 4 July 1946 the Republic ...
www.exxun.com/Philippines/a_fg.html
Forces
Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP): Army, Navy (includes Marine Corps and Coast Guard), Air Force (2008)
www.exxun.com/Philippines/h_ml.html
Forces
Polish Armed Forces: Land Forces (includes Navy (Marynarka Wojenna, MW)), Polish Air Force (Sily Powietrzne Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej, SPRP) (2008)
www.exxun.com/Poland/h_ml.html
forces
... age for voluntary military service; compulsory military service ended in 2004; women serve in the armed forces, on naval ships since 1993, but are prohibited from serving in some combatant specialties (2005
www.exxun.com/Portugal/h_ml.html
Forces
... Los Macheteros); note - the following radical groups are considered dormant by Federal law enforcement: Armed Forces for National Liberation or FALN, Armed Forces of Popular Resistance, Volunteers of the Puerto Rican Revolution
www.exxun.com/PuertoRico/d_gv.html
forces
no regular indigenous military forces; paramilitary National Guard, Police Force
www.exxun.com/PuertoRico/h_ml.html
Forces
... HAMAD also holds the positions of Minister of Defense and Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces head of government: Prime Minister HAMAD bin Jasim bin Jabir al-Thani (since 3 April ...
www.exxun.com/Qatar/d_gv.html
Forces
Land Forces, Naval Forces, Romanian Air Force (Fortele Aeriene Romane, FAR), Special Operations (2008)
www.exxun.com/Romania/h_ml.html
forces
... glasnost (openness) and perestroika (restructuring) in an attempt to modernize Communism, but his initiatives inadvertently released forces that by December 1991 splintered the USSR into Russia and 14 other independent republics. Since ...
www.exxun.com/Russia/a_fg.html
Forces
... Party [Sazhi UMALATOVA]; People's Union [Sergey BABURIN]; Social Justice Party [Arkadiy GAYDAMAK]; Union of Right Forces or SPS [Nikita BELYKH]; United Russia or UR [Boris Vyacheslavovich GRYZLOV]; Yabloko Party [Grigoriy Alekseyevich ...
www.exxun.com/Russia/d_gv.html
forces
... in institutions continue to dampen domestic and foreign investor sentiment. PUTIN has granted more influence to forces within his government that desire to reassert state control over the economy. Russia has made ...
www.exxun.com/Russia/e_ec.html
Forces
Ground Forces (SV), Navy (VMF), Air Forces (Voyenno-Vozdushniye Sily, VVS); Airborne Troops (VDV), Strategic Rocket Troops (RVSN), and Space Troops (KV) are independent "combat arms," not subordinate to any of the ...
www.exxun.com/Russia/h_ml.html
Forces
Rwandan Defense Forces: Army, Air Force
www.exxun.com/Rwanda/h_ml.html
forces
fighting among ethnic groups - loosely associated political rebels, armed gangs, and various government forces in Great Lakes region transcending the boundaries of Burundi, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Rwanda, and Uganda - abated ...
www.exxun.com/Rwanda/i_ti.html
forces
... space tracking station for the US. In 1982, Ascension was an essential staging area for British forces during the Falklands War, and it remains a critical refueling point in the air-bridge ...
www.exxun.com/SaintHelena/a_fg.html
forces
no regular military forces; Royal Saint Lucia Police Force (includes Special Service Unit, Coast Guard) (2007)
www.exxun.com/SaintLucia/h_ml.html
forces
no regular military forces; Royal Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Police Force, Coast Guard (2007)
www.exxun.com/SaintVincentandtheGrenadines/h_ml.html
forces
Samoa has no formal defense structure or regular armed forces; informal defense ties exist with NZ, which is required to consider any Samoan request for assistance under the 1962 Treaty of Friendship
www.exxun.com/Samoa/h_ml.html
forces
no regular military forces; Voluntary Military Force (Corpi Militari Voluntar) performs ceremonial duties and limited police functions (2006)
www.exxun.com/SanMarino/h_ml.html
Forces
... aimed at improving the army and its focus on realistic security concerns; command is exercised from the president, through the Minister of Defense, to the Chief of the Armed Forces staff (2005
www.exxun.com/SaoTomeandPrincipe/h_ml.html
Forces
Land Forces (Army), Navy, Air Force, Air Defense Force, National Guard, Ministry of Interior Forces (paramilitary)
www.exxun.com/SaudiArabia/h_ml.html
Forces
... countries was never carried out, and the union was dissolved in 1989. The Movement of Democratic Forces in the Casamance (MFDC) has led a low-level separatist insurgency in southern Senegal since ...
www.exxun.com/Senegal/a_fg.html
Forces
... DIOP]; And-Jef/African Party for Democracy and Socialism or AJ/PADS [Landing SAVANE]; Alliance of Forces of Progress or AFP [Moustapha NIASSE]; Democratic League-Labor Party Movement or LD-MPT [Dr ...
www.exxun.com/Senegal/d_gv.html
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