It sees the British Prime Minister's private army at war with Russian warlords and renegade spies. |
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The country was soon essentially ungovernable, with various warlords in murderous control of their own fiefdoms. |
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Central power degenerated in a country where local power was more determinant than ever, in the era of warlords. |
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In origin, the warlords were mostly former soldiers of the imperial and republican armies, bandits, or local officials. |
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The country appears to be on the verge of becoming a failed state ruled by roaming warlords. |
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The present army and police force, which are highly factionalised, are in no position to challenge regional warlords. |
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The problem is, there are still big chunks of the country that are not secure, under the control of drug lords and warlords. |
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Cadeyrn was gone from the palace for days at a time, visiting forts along the coast and the strongholds of his warlords. |
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The Afghan national army is a minnow alongside the 85,000 armed fighters in the ranks of regional warlords. |
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Subdued and cowed by the warlords, the public has little motivation to mobilize against the militias. |
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Initially, many old warlords resisted the wide-ranging reforms that stripped them of their powers. |
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Loyalties depend on personal relationships with tribal chiefs, sheiks or warlords, rather than allegiance to the nation. |
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And so far, most of the warlords who have offered to disarm have been the ones allied to the government. |
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Aggressive clan warlords monopolized political power by controlling food distribution, coercing followers through the delivery or denial of food. |
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Renegade warlords and militants now control much of the main island of Guadalcanal. |
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Unfortunately he is merely the head of a rabble of warlords who are firmly rooted in the past. |
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Somaliland, in the north, and Puntland, in the north east, are in the hands of autonomous warlords. |
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The real struggle now is to bring the warlords together to manage the peace. |
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Anything that threatened the interests of the regional warlords would be vetoed. |
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The warlords already control several small but important enclaves across Afghanistan. |
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Already, local warlords, sensing the Taliban's days are numbered, are jockeying for power. |
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Some are the personal armies of aspiring warlords, out to conquer as much territory as they can and hold it by force. |
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These networks soon recruited tribal warlords and mobilised tribal extended families. |
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He had to deal with sweltering humidity, torrential rainstorms, former Khmer Rouge warlords and mischievous monkeys and elephants. |
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But other local warlords, who have access to drug money and other resources, continue to expand their forces or draw freebooters to their ranks. |
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Relatively incorrupt, they brought an end to the capricious violence of the warlords who ruled in the post-Soviet vacuum. |
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The US is buying off regional warlords and militia commanders for a variety of reasons. |
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Just handing over the country to the warlords of the Northern Alliance once the war against the Taliban is won would be a kind of betrayal. |
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Somalia has been destroyed as a country, it has been torn into patches which are run by rebel armies of tribal warlords. |
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The regional and local warlords who were the key allies of the US against the Taliban are not advocates of women's rights. |
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Military power remained in the hands of regional governors who were little more than independent warlords. |
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Last week Karzai threatened to resign unless regional warlords paid more revenue into central government coffers. |
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An estimated 100,000 militiamen are operating around the landlocked country under the command of regional warlords. |
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The shipowners often draw up contracts with local officials, clan elders or regional warlords. |
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In fact, by bringing the warlords back to power, the US Government has replaced one misogynist fundamentalist regime with another. |
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The Caliphate became a monarchy, first absolute, then nominal, controlled by oligarchies, feudal lords, warlords, tribal chiefs and regional chieftains. |
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Initially, most Afghan warlords regarded the Special Forces merely as paymasters, and were reluctant to let them go to the front lest they be injured or killed. |
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Much of the countryside remains under the control of the Afghan warlords who use heroin money to maintain their irregular armies of up to 10,000 each. |
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Paraguay will not pawn its daily bread to dance the blind waltz of the warlords. |
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To accomplish that task, it had to bring to heel many of the warlords the C. I. A. had paid during and after the 2001 invasion. |
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I have had the opportunity to talk to several warlords, to ask why they had taken up arms. |
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It was the companion hunting dog of the early warlords and landed aristocracy who used it for general-purpose hunting. |
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And for penny-ante warlords, the collapse of Western sponsorship has driven them to religion. |
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Insurgents, warlords and criminals continue to terrorize and victimize civilian populations. |
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The drug economy in Afghanistan supports the Taliban, the ruthless warlords and the drug lords. |
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Her attackers work for Carlos Castaño, the strongest of Colombia's rightist paramilitary warlords. |
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It is about the collapse of wide swathes of Africa under the boots of rampaging warlords, crooked politicians, and the apathy of the West. |
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The victory strengthened al-Shabaab, allowing fighters to take possession of arsenals belonging to the warlords. |
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Since then, peace deals with the warlords, including a lucrative amnesty and government contracts, have pacified the area. |
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They are debating whether their president is finally cutting the country's warlords down to size, or whether he is just electioneering. |
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We have appeased the warlords, the extremists and the spoilers for too long by wielding the carrot but not the stick. |
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Playing on one side are the warlords who seek an unstable government, the control of the turf by regional warlords and the silencing of women. |
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Victims of physical abuse, children also have to endure the beastly fantasies of warlords. |
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The warlords who control the north, succored by illicit tax schemes, also seem to have little reason to hurry. |
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That is an impressive position, on a motley field of 11 candidates that is filled with pocket-stuffing kleptocrats and blood-soaked warlords. |
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Coltan was sold by warlords and rebel leaders in order to raise funds for their operations. |
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The toll of arms-related violence is present in crime-ridden parts of urban areas as well as villages that are dominated by warlords. |
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The risk was that the country would once again fall prey to various warlords once the Taliban regime had been eliminated. |
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In his campaign Mr Karzai mortgaged his future government several times over for the support of a rogue's gallery of former warlords. |
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It has made successive use of various warlords, stoking the rivalries among them. |
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One of the reasons people gather around these warlords or these nationalist zealots is that they don't see any alternative. |
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Rival warlords issued their own shillings for a while and there are a fair number of fakes in circulation. |
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The role of the central government must therefore be strengthened and the influence of the warlords reduced. |
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Apart from this, it is also composed of people who found their way there by virtue of their being warlords of some sort. |
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When there is a flagrant lack of governance, countries that have only warlords, the international community must act. |
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A great many warlords simultaneously work for government and rule almost independently of national strategies and priorities. |
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Power has withered at the center and devolved to an archipelago of fiefdoms where warlords rule without the burdens of governing. |
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The analogy was that this was a nation ruled by twelve regional warlords. |
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The ships were the kind of swift feluccas preferred by the desert warlords, with odd-looking lateen sails and long, backswept oars pointing downwards into the water. |
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Gang warlords, locked down in Super Maxes like Pelican Bay pass on instructions to thousands of followers. |
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The pair are drawn into China's struggle, as nationalists, communists and warlords tear each other to pieces and Japan lurks in the shadows, waiting to pounce. |
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Control of the few viable roads is another bone of contention among various warlords who exercise their authority by blocking delivery of aid items. |
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These warlords continue to exercise their authority by means of force and firepower, and often engage in sporadic armed conflict against one another. |
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The most vulnerable members of our society fall victim to the repulsive and detestable warlords and gang masters who conceal their depraved activity behind closed doors. |
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After the early 20th century revolutions, shifting alliances of China's regional warlords waged war for control of the Beijing government. |
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If we do not continue to engage actively in political and economic emancipation in Afghanistan, we will see the warlords fight it out and Afghanistan will go back to being the backwater that it has been for decades. |
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Skirmishing between rival warlords continues in the supposedly peaceful north, even while America's forces along the border with Pakistan have been coming under fierce attacks from Taliban and al-Qaeda remnants there. |
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Brutal, corrupt warlords torture and murder at will, while the khamsin, the hot, dusty desert wind, blows hard, turning the sky yellow and filling the air with choking sand. |
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The warlords still maintain their iron grip outside Kabul and women still wear the burka and have no rights whatsoever, for instance to education or primary healthcare. |
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Not all these men are warlords, and many will drop out. |
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So that money is not going to the people at the grassroots, it is going to the people who already have assets, like the warlords, who are getting rich off Canada's contributions. |
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The Commission should also call for the Afghan government to investigate and bring to justice any current or former warlords who have allegedly committed war crimes and crimes against humanity. |
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A burning could also be an act of revenge or a show of strength in a rivalry between warlords, or armed groups exploiting jealousy over the building or repair of a school in a rival village. |
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Afghanistan remains a fragile state and heavily factionalized by the many warlords who remain in power and who fail to uphold the rights of women and girls. |
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After becoming emperor, Kublai banned granting the titles of and tithes to Han Chinese warlords. |
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But the 1911 Revolution, carried out with the assistance of the imperialist powers, left the country divided under the rule of the warlords and imperialists. |
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An increasing demand for funds has been noticed during the mandate period, although financial sources required by warlords to fund their operations remain basically the same. |
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But is he the man to disempower the warlords and disarm their militias in order to push through this constitution? |
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The fact is that warlords continue to hold sway in many of the more remote areas, and their commitment to peaceful development and democracy is largely non-existent. |
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That is no more than a reflection of how the warlords use even the innocence of children who are swept up in traumatic situations around the world. |
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They were welcomed with open arms by the Afghans, with thousands of militia members who had been serving in the armies of various warlords defecting with great enthusiasm to the Taliban. |
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In 383, the usurper Magnus Maximus withdrew troops from northern and western Britain, probably leaving local warlords in charge. |
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President Karzai himself stated that the warlords and private militias, who were once regarded as the west's staunchest allies in Afghanistan, were now a greater threat to the country's security than the Taliban. |
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The Romans one may cite Appian of Alexandria and Publius Annius Florus alongside Tacitus regarded him, at least during the first part of his career, as the last of the warlords who had dominated the republic. |
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There are various warlords who, for long periods, have become accustomed to a high degree of self-determination in those areas they control and who have resisted the establishment of a central government. |
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It is the perfect terrain for demagogues, warlords, dictators and crime bosses, whose power is reinforced by illicit wealth and the impunity they secure in lawless times. |
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It is a process imperative to repairing the fractured state of the country, divided up into a myriad of fiefdoms controlled by warlords with differing agendas, rarely progressive agendas. |
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When the country was divided into fiefdoms of the warlords, protected by adolescent mercenary militia, they were already the favourite targets of the powerful, businessmen or self-proclaimed governors. |
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Another point to note is that Karzai's current government consists of many of these warlords, drug lords and oil executives, in addition to other agents from other countries. |
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The drug lords and the warlords have them under their thumbs when they bring them money in the spring and tell them they will come back in the fall for the crop. |
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It's the resistance of a group of violent male Islamocrats and warlords who want complete authority over every person in the nation. |
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He wanted to establish his control over both the Norman warlords and the Irish. |
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The Norman warlords affirmed their loyalty to Henry and handed over the territory they had conquered to him. |
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Further, following the disintegration of the government of Somalia, warlords in the region have attacked ships delivering UN food aid. |
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With the political stage cleared of socialists, the warlords, some of them Islamist, vied for power. |
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Other warlords, including Ismail Khan in the west and Dostum in the north, maintained their fiefdoms. |
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Still, civil war, royal assassinations, and usurpation were commonplace, and warlords and great landholders assumed wide discretionary powers. |
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When traders from Portugal introduced arquebuses and muskets, Iberian warlords were quick to adapt them, giving them a large advantage. |
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The Guangzhou government fell apart as the warlords withdrew their support. |
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By May, he had ended civilian control of the military and begun his Northern Expedition against the warlords of the north. |
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The Yellow Turban Rebellion broke out in AD 184, ushering in an era of warlords. |
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The reliance on ethnic Han and Turkic warlords in suppressing the rebellion increased their power and influence. |
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Because the warlords have the guns, they also hold the reins of power. |
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Hunger, nakedness and disease have created images which, if caught and projected onto the screens of the warlords would perhaps also give these people a sleepless night and make them begin to think about Angola. |
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In the midst of rising environmental scarcity and weakened social institutions, contending warlords were able to seize control of key resources such as water and land and exploit rising grievances to their own ends. |
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The Group also pointed out that several Somali warlords were said to be involved in smuggling hashish from an Asian country into Kenya and the United Republic of Tanzania on Somali vessels and small boats. |
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Yet the offshore oil industry, and even the onshore diamond industry, continue to thrive, the revenue financing the war, on both sides, and fattening the pockets of the warlords. |
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Oxfam points out that most efforts to build peace have been at a national level, where they have been stymied by warlords, corruption or criminality. |
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Since many of the world's current conflicts are being waged not over ideas, but over resources, the intention of warlords is neither to liberate nor to represent the people over whose bodies and lands they rampage. |
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It was horrifying to see how easily certain self-seeking politicians and warlords succeeded in evoking old stereotypes once more and whipping up peoples one against the other. |
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The article quotes Muhammad Rasal Haidari, who is a Pashtun prevented from returning to his home in northern Afghanistan by warlords from other tribal groups. |
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Repatriation of refugees is not satisfactory as the people are simply afraid to return to villages devastated, overrun and terrorised by the terrorists or the warlords. |
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He may be untainted personally, but he has not purged the traffickers and warlords close to him, let alone started to unhook Afghanistan from its institution-suborning dependency on poppy and opium. |
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These acts received great acclaim from the Chinese warlords and were essential to the building of the Yuan Dynasty. |
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From January to June of 1993 members may remember seeing pictures of Somalian warlords roaring around the country in vehicles that had machine guns mounted on them. |
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The security situation in the country continued to be somewhat precarious, with the persistence of problems related to drug trafficking, the demobilization of militias, and the traditional divisions among warlords. |
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Because of its incessive conflicts with warlords and the Japanese, the Nationalist Party had to adopt a Soviet-type model for its political bureacratic structure. |
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Having defeated the warlords in south and central China by military force, Chiang was able to secure the nominal allegiance of the warlords in the North. |
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On a political level, the Frankish warlords abandoned tribalism and founded a number of kingdoms, eventually culminating in the Frankish Empire of Charlemagne. |
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In late Tang period, there were ineffective and corrupt rulers and officials in the imperial court allowing regional warlords to trigger widespread revolts. |
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That sourcebook is aimed at players of fighters, rogues, rangers, and warlords, and by design you're not going to find much in that book to appeal to other characters. |
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From 1923 to 1926 Sun and the Kuomintang used the city as a base to prosecute a renewed revolution in China by conquering the warlords in the north. |
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China never rebuilt a strong central army, and many local officials became warlords who used military power to effectively rule independently in their provinces. |
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Trade and political accords between the warlords deteriorated. |
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