Europe already feared that rising youth unemployment in the region would create dangerous instability along Europe s southern flank.

The member countries of the Association of South East Asian Nations, on Burma s eastern flank, have made similar calculations.

Worried about the threat to its left flank in Bastogne, it organized a major combined arms attack to seize Noville.

Located on the southwestern flank of the major anticline is another large one (Berchil'sky), in which the crest is breached by the Ortobalagan Valley.

Nyos is a deep lake high on the flank of an inactive volcano in the Oku volcanic plain along the Cameroon line of volcanic activity.

What might clinch a final, mutually acceptable settlement would be an offer by Serbia to hand over a part of its territory in the Albanian majority Preševo valley, on Kosovo s eastern flank.

If the EU decides to leave in abeyance the possibility that Ukraine and Belarus might one day join, both will enter a political limbo that could threaten security on the EU s eastern flank.

Merkel could attempt this strategy because she knew that her right flank was covered by the FDP, which would attract voters dissatisfied with the CDU s leftward turn, but then join in a CDU led coalition.

The eastern flank of the fire calmed down for several days, then down sloping winds off the Yellowstone Plateau forced flames along the west side of the fire towards the town of West Yellowstone, Montana.

But a new force has emerged on its flank Golden Dawn, a frankly neo Nazi party that is spreading violence on the streets and in public life, and seeing its popular support increase as a result.

The plan called for the right flank of the German advance to bypass the French armies (which were concentrated on the Franco German border, leaving the Belgian border without significant French forces) and move south to Paris.

India s government cannot be blamed for deciding that its national interests in Burma are more important than standing up for democracy there. The member countries of the Association of South East Asian Nations, on Burma s eastern flank, have made similar calculations.

Meanwhile, both Egypt and Tunisia, which have had popular uprisings which have toppled Hosni Mubarak and Zein El Abdideen Ben Ali respectively, and which also flank Libya, have opened their borders for humanitarian relief to reach Libyans, under attack from the Gaddafi regime.

The center right New Democracy has also lost ground, though not as badly. But a new force has emerged on its flank Golden Dawn, a frankly neo Nazi party that is spreading violence on the streets and in public life, and seeing its popular support increase as a result.