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Margaret Thatcher, the United Kingdom 's first female Prime Minister, moved to initiate policy that would see gender equality in recruitment and pay in the armed forces, but not for pensions or combatant roles. In a review of the events and Thatcher's formulation of policy toward women in the armed forces, as a debate on gender equality and social justice, the salient variables and issues taken into consideration include: Thatcher's personal agenda; her ideological position; her policy priorities; her relations with women organizations; the domestic and international political situation in which she lived; and such concerns that she might have entertained, such as appearing to show favoritism toward other women or indeed appearing to be weak. Thatcher, the Member of Parliament, had pref...
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OCTOBER TERM, 2008
MINISTRY OF DEFENSE AND SUPPORT FOR ARMEDFORCES OF ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF IRAN V. ELAHI
SUPREME COURT OF TH...
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Never forget.
They served with honor and valor, so they should be remembered forever.
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Vladimir Ivanovich POPOV was born on December 24, 1949. After finishing the Chelyabinsk Higher Tank Command School in 1971, he served with the Group o...
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When I was asked to write an article for Armed Forces Comptroller on the subject of ethics, the proposition centered on the daily challenges faced by ...
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AMERICANS HAVE BECOME so inured to the sight of federal troops fighting fires, rescuing flood victims from rooftops, and engaging in drug interdiction...
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The fuel supply service is one of the youngest services of the Russian Federation Armed Forces Rear Services. Formed organizationally at the General S...
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This notice announces the following proposed changes to Rules 19(b) and 22(b) of the Rules of Practice and Procedure, United States Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces.
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With the end imminent, the status of Libya's armed forces will become a prominent topic of discussion. Following the assassination of Gen. Abdel Fattah Younes, talk grew of the future of Libya's rebel militias. National Transitional Council (NTC) Chairman Mustafa Abdel Jalil immediately called on them to disband and join the NTC army, and recently, Abdel Hakim Belhadj, the rebel commander in Tripoli, said the disparate forces would be unified.
Despite expected knee-jerk reactions, nothing could be more promising for Libya's democratic future than official, regional militias (more appropriately referred to as army reserves in modern times) under the authority of provincial governments. More than 200 years ago, America's Founding Fathers cogently argued that a powerful central leadership ...