among the Iranian, the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, the IRGC, because they're the ones that really run the country. I'm going to have this huge military force that shows what I'm capable of doing. Then the rest of the Iranian leadership, they're going to want to work with me just like they didin Venezuela. That was reason number two. And then the most important reason, the most important reason is that unlike
With the ERA all but certain to pass, or so it appeared at that time, the impending end of the military draft and the imminent requirement for an all-volunteer military force , Admiral Zumwalt composed Z gram 116, Equal Rights and Opportunities for Women, in August of 1972. It was a huge step forward for women in the military and the Navy, both officer and enlisted, and it opened up many ratings and specialties
But it really did all the same kind of stuff that other empires do. It used diplomacy and military force to conquer new territories. It used local cooperators on the ground to get things done.
I just had a question about strategies for talking to people who disagree, because I think especially at a place like Google, be its own military force , really saying that if it weren't for being a sanctuary city, we would be extremely dangerous.
where you could tax the people, where you could train your troops, where you could spread propaganda, where you could do everything necessary to raise a powerful military force . And to do that, you had to keep the people on your side, which is why he gave very strict instructions on how
And certainly after World War II, there was a tendency to deify guerrillas as these 10-foot-tall superhumans who could not possibly be defeated by military force . A lot of that was a result of the well publicized success of a few high-profile insurgents like Mao Tse-tung, Ho Chi
problems it's the only western country that is forced on a daily basis to assert its existence through military force the palestinians ironically suffer even more what i mentioned before about roadblocks and fences and so forth it's an unpleasant existence but it goes beyond
- That's right. Yeah. - That's one of the components of an extremely effective military force is if meritocracy is prized. Same is true for who gets to rule. How do you determine the succession? If you're just giving it to your oldest son, that's gonna be a problem.
And this is a very fine calculation that changes every week, let alone every year. The alternative is what, military force ?
the first bombs that killed the supreme leader that uh killed those other several dozen doves that he was meeting with? this is my area of what happens when you have military force in politics come together.
And finally it came to the point when wars became unbearable. So at the beginning a big country a lot of military force could conquer, easily, a smaller country. And just because they came with horses and were swords, and it was very difficult to fight them.
In another case of Aceh in Indonesia, where the guerrilla forces have been fighting for 30 years, the GAM. But they were never going to drive the Brits out by military force .
It's not just the US Army in Iraq and Afghanistan that's had to deal with guerrillas in the past decade or so. This is been a challenge which has confronted every great military force throughout history, including the greatest military force in antiquity, the Roman legions. Pretty formidable, even when not led by Russell Crowe.
my job was taking stuff that's pretty obvious to people that study counter Insurgency and kind of reminding the big necessarily we go try and solve it with military force people don't like that surprisingly enough and we end up
I want to take one of our online questions now. Senator Tim Kaine was like that when it came to the authorization for use of military force .
got an example in Thailand where we chose not to intervene and as a result extremists haven't been able to come into that environment another example is Indonesia where we never intervened with military force but we worked always through the Indonesian government and particularly the police and the Civil Authorities to try and help them control their environment and we've seen ji
financial reasons. There's an urgency with all of that, now especially with the climate that is changing, So we don't have to say that we're going to solve our problems with military force or by having a doubling of the size of our army.
political dissidents are tortured and killed. Some tipsters had come forward to claim that the Revolutionary Guards, the elite military force aligned with Iran's Islamic religious leaders, were holding him at a secret detention facility.
that is based on cultural and psychological domination, backed up by a military force
But it's not actually healthy, and actually it's not actually correct because most military force , when it's applied,
of the 800 pound gorillas of the day. Namely countries that can project military force beyond their own borders and which account for the majority of deaths in war from all
And which case, the Pakistani side would say if that happened, the Pakistanis, rather than losing to the superior military force , would use something which they call tactical nuclear weapons.
And this is a point that I think is usually missing from accounts of the War of Independence. Because in fact, even after Yorktown, even after Saratoga before that, the British empire was still the mightiest military force in the world. They still had tens of thousands of troops in North America, tens of thousands more in other parts of the empire.
So, again, that's a very different type of deployment of military force than what we're facing now. And it's so imminent that I really wanted to weave it into a story that people
assault would have to then take a series of, do a series of things, including letting international observers -- if necessary military force -- open the country up, stop everything they're doing