RUSSIA Natural environment Among Russia’s most important environmental problems: * Water pollution is the most serious concern. Less than half of Russia’s population has access to safe drinking water. While water pollution from industrial sources has diminished because of the decline in manufacturing‚ municipal wastes increasingly threaten key water supply sources‚ and nuclear contamination could leach into key water sources as well. The head of Russia’s environmental protection committee
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GEO STRATEGIC IMPORTANCE OF PAKISTAN Geo strategic means the importance of a country or a region as by virtue of its geographical location. Geo political is defined as‚ stressing the influence of geographic factors on the state power‚ international conduct and advantages it derives from its location. Stephen Cohn describes this importance “While history has been unkind to Pakistan‚ its geography has been its greatest benefit. It has resource rich area in the north-west‚ people rich in the north-east
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Cold War Revision A war short of full scale war because of the development of the Atomic bomb. CAUSES OF THE COLD WAR [BARE] 1. Beliefs: Russia was a Communist country‚ ruled by a dictator who cared little about human rights. America was a capitalist democracy‚ which valued freedom. 2. Aims: Stalin wanted reparations from Germany/ a buffer of friendly states. Britain and the USA [led by President Truman] wanted to help Germany recover/ to prevent large areas of Europe from coming under
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Jasmine Revolution ( Tunisia Revolution): On December 17‚ 2010 the protest started in the city of Sidi when a 26 year old fruit and vegetable vendor burned himself in front of municipal office. In following 3 weeks protests continued Ben Ali dismisses the minister of the interior. The move fails to quiet demonstrations. Ben Ali again came up with large concessions on state TV‚ but clashes grew more violent. State of emergency was declared with same ministries which outburst population even greater
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Historically‚ artillery (from French artillerie) refers to any engine used for the discharge of large projectiles during war‚ served by a crew of men. The term also describes ground-based troops with the primary function of manning such weapons. Artillery is sometimes known as "The King of Battle". This term includes coastal artillery which traditionally defended coastal areas against seaborne attack and controlled the passage of ships‚ using their ability to deny access through the threat of coastal
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THE ARMY RESTRUCTURING PLAN 2 Abstract The U.S. Army plans on cutting 80‚000 soldiers by 2013. This will be done by cutting the number of combat brigades from 45 to as low as 32. This restructuring comes as the Pentagon works on its 2013 fiscal year budget‚ which much reflect $260 billion in savings over the next five years. On January 26‚ 2012 senior DOD leaders released a new defense strategy‚
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technical assistance stopped the spread of communism in threatened countries. It later involved military force as well. The policy of Containment was put to action in the Truman Doctrine‚ The Marshall Plan‚ the Berlin airlift and the formation of NATO. 1. Truman Doctrine (U.S TO DONATE MONEY): In March 1947 President Truman called on the U.s to resist communism throughout the world. Truman’s speech was designed to get support for an American pledge of hundreds of millions of dollars to prevent
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achieve the same aims as Stalin. He wanted to improve living standards of a normal citizen‚ to be equal to those of the Americans. Also‚ Khrushchev still believed that Eastern European countries should act as a buffer zone and when West Germany joined NATO and built up an army‚ Khrushchev became worried thus creating the Warsaw
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My‚ my! At Waterloo Napoleon did surrender. Oh‚ yeah! And I have met my destiny in quite a similar way. The history book on the shelf is always repeating itself! Waterloo! Stranger: napoleon did not surrender at waterloo You: Napoleon was one of the greatest generals in history You: better You: then eny that UK had You: any* Stranger: true You: or will have You: I respect french You: people You: just them in europe Stranger: napoleon wasnt really a french anyway You: and You: serbs
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occasions. President Assad has been elected into power on two separate occasions. If President Assad’s government were to be overthrown‚ there currently isn’t in place another political party to provide a more desirable regime. In March 2011‚ NATO (with the UN authority) launched military action in Libya to end the 42-year Gaddafi dictatorship. The UN could not witness the massacre of civilians and not take any relevant action. The removal of Gaddafi took 7 months. It has been highlighted
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