Some articles on forces, force:
... the United States military and CIA Paramilitary Officers, working with allied Afghan military forces, and other North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and non-NATO forces attempted to ... non-Special Operations Forces) forces participating in direct combat activities ... The Taliban and al-Qaida forces fired mortars and heavy machine guns from entrenched positions in the caves and ridges of the mountainous terrain at U.S ...
... The Uzi gun was designed by Major (Captain at the time) Uziel Gal of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) following the 1948 Arab-Israeli War ... First introduced to IDF special forces in 1954, the weapon was placed into general issue two years later ... artillery troops and tankers, as well as a frontline weapon by elite light infantry assault forces ...
... The Republic of Korea Armed Forces (hangul 대한민국 국군 hanja 大韓民國國軍 Revised Romanization Daehanminguk Gukgun) or ROK Armed Forces, is the armed forces of the Republic of Korea ... Haebyeongdae) Republic of Korea Air Force (대한민국 공군 大韓民國空軍 Daehanminguk Gonggun) And Republic of Korea Reserve Forces (대한민국 예비군 大韓民國豫備軍 Daehanminguk ... The ROK military forces are undergoing rapid modernization in preparation for assuming wartime operational control by 2015 ...
... The Azerbaijani Land Forces number 85,000 strong, according to UK Advanced Research and Assessment Group estimates. 2,500 men of the National Guard are also part of the ground forces ... has signed numerous contracts to strengthen its armed forces and to train its military with Turkey's assistance ...
... The Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia—People’s Army (Spanish Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia—Ejército del Pueblo, FARC–EP and FARC) are a Colombian Marxist–Lenin ... and the repressive violence from Colombian state and paramilitary forces against the civilian population ... The strength of the FARC–EP forces is indeterminate in 2007, the FARC said they were an armed force of 18,000 men and women in 2010, the Colombian military ...
Famous quotes containing the word forces:
“Yesterday, December 7, 1941Ma date that will live in infamy—the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan.”
—Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882–1945)
“Ah! how much a mother learns from her child! The constant protection of a helpless being forces us to so strict an alliance with virtue, that a woman never shows to full advantage except as a mother. Then alone can her character expand in the fulfillment of all life’s duties and the enjoyment of all its pleasures.”
—Honoré De Balzac (1799–1850)
“There is no longer beauty except in the struggle. No more masterpieces without an aggressive character. Poetry must be a violent assault against the unknown forces in order to overcome them and prostrate them before men.”
—Tommaso Marinetti (1876–1944)