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  European Union - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This early union was created by the force of one central state.
Supporters of the European Union argue that the growth of the EU is a force for peace and democracy.
A common security policy as an objective, including the creation of a 60,000-member European Rapid Reaction Force for peacekeeping purposes, an EU military staff and an EU satellite centre (for intelligence purposes).
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/European_Union   (6512 words)

  
 Aspects of India's Economy No. 41
For example, India's plans for a rapid-reaction force which could be deployed immediately in countries along the rim of the Indian Ocean cannot be pursued without fast long-range aircraft with aerial refueling capabilities, Airborne Early Warning and Command aircraft, attack helicopters, and a carrier in addition to the INS Virat.
The US is the only country with the infrastructure and forces to project military force over long distances, and thus to fight sustained wars abroad, as it is doing in Iraq and Afghanistan at present.
American force posture remains dangerously thin in the arc – many thousand miles long – between Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean and Okinawa and Guam in the Pacific...
www.rupe-india.org /41/why.html   (5905 words)

  
 Crisis Control   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
The Union of Right Forces, or SPS, will elect a new chairman and deputy chairman this weekend amid accusations from some party members that Unified Energy Systems chief Anatoly Chubais, a close Kremlin ally, is taking control of the liberal party by picking associates to lead it.
After she was taken into police custody, she asked her daughter to take care of her pets.
He believes, as have others, that the destruction of the Church has been the goal of a number of forces for many years.
crisiscontrol.mendcrisis.com   (1537 words)

  
 Dictionary.com/Word of the Day Archive/diktat
A harsh settlement unilaterally imposed on a defeated party.
Whether with the rapid reaction force or with the Bosnian government, the United States should vigorously support efforts to lift the siege of Sarajevo and help to piece back together a contiguous territory so that the Bosnian government can come to the bargaining table free of a Serbian diktat.
And it would begin to encroach on another, more treasured, freedom: the right of the networks to broadcast what they choose independent of government diktat.
dictionary.reference.com /wordoftheday/archive/2002/09/25.html   (208 words)

  
 [ CTHULHU RISING: HORROR ROLEPLAYING IN A DARK FUTURE ]
The Federation's interstellar rapid reaction force, the ICM deal with colonial disputes, piracy, civil unrest and just about every other problem that occurs in the colonies requiring the possible exercising of brute force.
The ICM incorporates units specially trained for vacuum operations, shipboard combat and planetary assault.
Special Forces unit from the Eurasian Rimworlds Combine.
www.ragingtrifle.com /cthulhu_rising/military.php   (399 words)

  
 TFF Special: EU Militarisation   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
It is nothing but a fig leaf argument when we are told that the EU Rapid Reaction Force is not and will not become a European "Army." You may add: not yet, at least.
If the EU does things differently, draws some other lessons from Kosovo and decides to deal with conflicts around the world in a new way, it may become much stronger and even a moral force - - and stronger than the US on most power scales.
It may become a power of the future rather than a replica of its colonial past and of the present NATO.
www.transnational.org /forum/meet/2001/EU_militarization_index.html   (1745 words)

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