Is Military Power Becoming Obsolete?

Top board military power among states.

Most Thais would agree about the military.

Revulsion for military rule runs deep.

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Initially, this may be an issue for the military.

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Traditionally, the way people thought about power was primarily in terms of military power.

But this confuses economic competitiveness with military power.

The dictator seized power in a military coup.

The West s economic mismanagement will also reduce its military power.

The military seizes power the next day, ending constitutional rule.

The BoIsheviks organized a military plot against the legitimate authorities.

Lansana came into power in 1984 via a military coup.

Military power remains important because it structures world politics.

Hard power grows out of a country's military and economic might.

The judiciary must not be influenced by the military, either directly or indirectly it should be permitted to determine each case without interference from the executive branch of the Government.

In 1956, he was appointed Deputy Defense Minister of Military Science, a secondary position with no real military power.

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For some people, raw military might is the only true measure of power.

These three moves promise, at long last, to establish civilian control over the military and ensure judicial independence.

Leadership entails more than the possession of enormous economic and military power.

The military council has been in power for twelve months. And they've accomplished nothing,

Doesn't tell you much about military power, doesn't tell you very much about soft power.

Today a small upper class has a firm hold on political, economic and military power in the country.

CAMBRIDGE Will military power become less important in the coming decades?

Military power is also used to provide protection for allies and assistance to friends.

In Pakistan, the democratic transition, after years of military rule, is still not complete.

(The transitional government came to power after a military coup d'etat earlier this year.)

Arriving 30 years after the military coup that brought Pinochet to power, the report has both unsettled and empowered Chileans.

The PDP, in power since military rule ended in 1999, is widely disliked.

CAMBRIDGE Will military power become less important in the coming decades?

The Military Committee for Recovery and National Progress (CMRPN) took control of the Government.

From December 1931, the year of the coup in which Martínez came to power, there was brutal suppression of the rural resistance.

Hard power, which relies on coercion, grows out of military and economic might.

This was not Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif s first act of defiance against the military.

Instead, it is distributed among countries in a pattern that resembles a complex three dimensional chess game.

The military junta sees the enforcement of its own power as more important than the suffering of the Burmese people.

Military power will not have the utility for states that it had in the nineteenth century, but it will remain a crucial component of power in world politics.

Remarkably, disproportionate political, economic and military power is vested in the elites hailing from Tigray region.

In 1653, Oliver Cromwell, the most prominent military and political leader in the nation, seized power and declared himself Lord Protector (effectively becoming a military dictator, but refusing the title of king).

Faith has an especially important role to play in politics in circumstances where secular liberals are rendered impotent, as in the case of Nazi occupation, Communist rule, or military dictatorship.

Julie Bishop first ignores the abuses of power in Nauru and now legitimises the military government of Fiji.

Many Europeans will argue that they cannot condone military action without a Security Council mandate.

Thousands of people flocked back to Tahrir Square on Friday to protest against the country's military rule.