C. Geographic expansion through military action

There has even been talk of military action.

MELBOURNE Is Israel s military action in Gaza morally defensible?

Military action by itself may simply make matters worse.

Military action cannot be considered the only variable of success.

There is a link between purely military action and economic action aimed at meeting the people's basic needs.

This represented New Zealand's first military action in World War I.

Military action was unrealistic for so small a country as Mauritius.

The US urged the United Nations to take military action against Iraq.

In other words, whilst military necessity may justify a particular action, the action may cause unnecessary suffering including civilian death, or damage may be totally disproportionate to the military advantage to be gained.

They took minimal military action during what became known as the Phoney War.

The current state of Iran s nuclear program does not call for immediate military action.

This policy change is a necessary parallel to the military action now taking place.

Indeed, the younger generation of Americans has greeted military action abroad with a yawn.

But there is no support in Europe for military action, and little backing for sanctions.

The Turkish parliament has passed a year long mandate which approves cross border military action.

By lowering the costs and risks of attack, these technological innovations make military action more likely.

Regardless of the outcome, he foresees no threat of military action, at least through next year.

But the legitimacy of any international military action that goes beyond immediate self defense requires broad international approval and action without legitimacy is bound to fail.

proportionality the principle of proportionality requires that the collateral civilian losses resulting from a military action should not be excessive in relation to the expected military advantage.

The facile Clausewitzian wisdom that military action ultimately leads to a political solution is no longer convincing.

(4) And in some extreme cases, there's even a suggestion that we should resort to military action.

The only significant military action was the siege and conquest of the city of Ceuta in 1415.

This requires military action, carefully calibrated to ensure that it does not add to the population's suffering.

Though determined to prevent Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons, even if doing so requires military action, the US weighs the consequences of a military showdown in very different terms.

None of the Middle East s problems has a military solution, and none can be solved through unilateral action.

The extremists, whom Bush expected to be defeated through economic sanctions, diplomatic isolation, and military action, have prevailed.

If so, the action should not proceed because the military necessity is outweighed by proportionality and humanitarian considerations.

The emerging security concept of the responsibility to protect , coupled with humanitarian intervention, remains grounded in military action and has been used in the past to justify violent military intervention.

More threats will only push the international community further along the spiral of escalation and, possibly, into military action.

The international community must therefore accept the need for a fundamental link between such military action and the UN.

By the time NATO forces finally took military action against the Serbs, 200,000 Bosnian Muslims had already been murdered.

It was asked to judge whether there was an imminent threat to world peace requiring pre emptive military action.

Recent large scale interventions in Iraq and Afghanistan, though not primarily humanitarian, have eroded public support for military action.

Following the Belgrade Offensive, the Syrmian Front was the last major military action of World War II in Serbia.

The deaths of prisoners of war in captivity and personnel missing in action are also included with military deaths.

And, given the stakes, any international agreement with Iran must come with an assured response to cheating, including military action.

Another weakness of the war on terror concept is that it relies on military action and rules out political approaches.

After all, this bittersweet Israeli action was neither a clear result of military defeat nor a consequence of political negotiations.

With today s emphasis on military action in the so called war on terror, the need for a conference to discuss security and military affairs, combined with a stability charter, has become urgent.

Under both systems, those who accept responsibility to take military action also take on the lion s share of the financial burden.

Iran s leaders, though, would be unwise to proceed with an unconstrained nuclear program and discount the possibility of US military action.

Before starting down that road, the US should be convinced that military action would not require US ground forces in Syria.

Military personnel are often deputed to these agencies, but the letter of the law and concerns of deniability limit the use of serving military officers in some types of activity (especially collection and action).

The lack of action within the military leadership to suppress these tendencies, and the powerlessness of the civilian elected government over the military were contributing factors that led to the subsequent February 26 Incident.