Military power is also used to provide protection for allies and assistance to friends.

Can the winning alliance survive its own success?

Unlike Allies, partners are not covered by Article 5, the North Atlantic Treaty s collective defense clause.

The Cold War s end changed everything. Can the winning alliance survive its own success?

In November 1942, Wehrmacht troops occupied the southern part of France after the Allies' Operation Torch had started.

Diebner also served as the director of the Nuclear Research Council and a Reich Planning Officer for the German Army until its surrender to Allied Powers in 1945.

Under the Fifth Air Force s unusual command arrangements, Whitehead controlled the Allied Air Forces units of all types in New Guinea.

10. The Government of Ghana believes that permanent membership in the Council of the five major victorious allies was well founded and has served a useful purpose.

If Xerxes wanted to trap the Allies completely, this maneuver would have made sense (especially if he was not expecting the Allies to fight).

Constantine accepted and on the 15 June 1917 went to exile, leaving his son Alexander on the throne as demanded (whom the Allies considered as pro Entente), instead of his elder son and crown prince, George.

The Anglo Portuguese Alliance would also be used by Britain (in succession from England) in the Second World War (allowing the Allies to establish bases on the Azores) and during the 1982 Falklands War.

Russians are particularly outraged by Putin s arrogant treatment of the presidency as an office that can be loaned to allies like the current incumbent, Dmitri Medvedev and reclaimed whenever he wishes.

Throughout the region, government officials shut out those they regard as troublemakers and manipulate procedures for issuing broadcast licenses to benefit political allies or silence independent voices.

I should like to remind the Assembly that, 50 years ago during the Second World War before the United States had declared war on the Axis countries, there was a strong feeling in the United States in favour of the Allies and against the Axis countries.

Serbia repelled three consecutive invasions by Austria, securing the first major victories of the war for the Allies, but was eventually overwhelmed by the combined forces of the Central Powers and forced to retreat through Albania to the Greek island of Corfu.

For example, building a stronger cooperative relationship with China is now taking precedence in US policy over the sale of advanced weaponry to Asian allies, lest the transfer of offensive arms provoke Chinese retaliation in another area.

He authored pamphlets on the reconciliation of Christianity and democracy, which Allied bombers dropped over Europe, and he never tired of stressing that the Christian origins of America s flourishing democracy had influenced him.

But any Allied victory would have required the large scale use of nuclear weapons, and a death toll in Europe that would most likely have been twice the actual World War II death toll of perhaps 40 million.