`` For other sieges with this name , see Siege of Pondicherry ( disambiguation ) '' The Siege of Pondicherry was a colonial military operation Military_operation in the early stages of the French Revolutionary Wars .

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This weakened Cause_change_of_strength the military and economic power of the central rulers .

In 2009 , official US troops were withdrawn Escaping , but American soldiers continued to remain Presence on the ground fighting in Iraq , hired Employment by defence contractors and private military companies .

In October 2002 , Congress authorized Preventing_or_letting President Bush to use Using military force against Iraq should he choose Choosing to .

The invasion led to Causation the collapse of the Ba'athist government ; Saddam was captured Conquering during Operation Red Dawn in December of that same year and executed by a military court three years later .

The surge in troops gave Giving greater security to Iraq 's government and military , and was largely a success .

The Chilcot Report , a British inquiry Scrutiny into its decision to go to war , was published Publishing in 2016 and concluded Process_end military action may have been necessary but was not the last resort at the time and that the consequences of invasion were underestimated Judgment_communication .

In the summer of 2014 , the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant ( ISIL ) launched a military offensive in northern Iraq and declared Expressing_publicly a worldwide Islamic caliphate , eliciting Causation another military response from the United States and its allies .

In the summer of 2014 , the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant ( ISIL ) launched a military offensive in northern Iraq and declared Expressing_publicly a worldwide Islamic caliphate , eliciting Causation another military response from the United States and its allies .

The Iraq War caused Causation over a hundred thousand civilian deaths and tens of thousands of military deaths ( see estimates below ) .

The complete victory of the Japanese military surprised world observers .

It was the first major military victory Getting in the modern era of an Asian power over a European one .

Following failed attempts to purchase Commerce_buy the islands from the Norwegian king , the Scots launched Process_start military Military_operation operations .

Three days prior , VVKJ Major Vladimir Kren had defected Escaping to the Germans , disclosing Reveal_secret the locations Placing of multiple military assets , as well as elucidating the VVKJ 's codes .

The attacks Attack resulted in Causation the paralysis of Yugoslav civilian and military command Control and control Control , the widespread Dispersal destruction Destroying of Belgrade 's infrastructure , and many civilian casualties Death .

On 16 March 1807 , 5000 British troops embarked Self_motion on the Alexandria expedition Traveling of 1807 and occupied Control Alexandria in August , although Khedive Muhammad Ali defeated Conquering them heavily and forced them to evacuate Removing five months later after a short siege Besieging ; however , the Ottoman Empire had a little military support Supporting from France in the war Hostile_encounter with Russia .

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Five Palestinians were killed Killing during the military operation Military_operation .

al-Arouri , one of the founders of Hamas 's military wing , made Manufacturing his comments Statement at a conference Communication in Istanbul , where he lives in exile .

Meshaal , who has headed Hamas ' exiled political wing Motion since 2004 , has denied being involved Cause_to_be_included in the `` details '' of Hamas `` military issues '' .

According to J.J. Goldberg , the military indictment contains Containing no evidence of orders from Hamas itself and strengthens Cause_change_of_strength the thesis that the incident Killing was organized Arranging by the Qawasmeh family alone from start to finish .

Kingdom of Hungary could n't recover Recovering from the devastation Destroying of Mongol invasion Attack of 1240 and 1241 , therefore it lost Earnings_and_losses much of its former political and military positions .

One of the most destructive conflicts in human history , it resulted in Causation eight million fatalities not only from military engagements but also from violence , famine , and plague .

Sweden , at the time a rising military power , soon intervened Hindering in 1630 under its king Gustavus Adolphus , transforming Change what had been simply the Emperor 's attempt to curb Hindering the Protestant states into a full-scale war in Europe .

the conflict at the beginning was mostly between the house of representatives ( hor ) government that was controversially elected Choosing in 2014 , also known as the `` tobruk government '' ; and the rival general national congress ( gnc ) government , also called Name_conferral the `` national salvation government '' , based in the capital tripoli , established Building after operation odyssey dawn and the failed military coup .

Parties holding majority of seats and some holding minority of seats began Process_start to use Using boycotts or threats of boycotts which increased Cause_change_of_position_on_a_scale division and suppressed Control relevant debates by removing them from the congressional agenda ; voting to declare Expressing_publicly sharia law and establishing a special committee to `` review all existing laws to guarantee they comply with Islamic law '' ; imposing gender segregation and compulsory hijab at Libyan universities ; and refusing to hold Hold new elections Choosing when its electoral mandate expired Process_end in January 2014 until General Khalifa Haftar launched a large-scale military offensive against the Islamists in May 2014 , code-named Operation Dignity ( ; 'Amaliyat al-Karamah ) .

Coinciding with Sukarno announcing Expressing_publicly a 'year of dangerous living ' and the 1964 race riots in Singapore , Indonesia launched Motion an expanded Expansion campaign of operations into West Malaysia on 17 August 1964 , albeit without military success .

This was achieved Achieve either by subsidiary alliances between the Company and local rulers or by direct military annexation .

The 1987 Sino-Indian skirmish Hostile_encounter was the third military conflict Hostile_encounter between the Chinese People 's Liberation Army Ground Force and Indian Army that occurred Coming_to_be at the Sumdorong Chu Valley , with the previous one taking place Process_start almost a quarter of a century earlier .

India 's efforts to occupy Control Thag La was the casus Causation belli for the October 1962 Chinese military attack Attack on India .

However , after the 1980 review , it was decided Deciding by the military strategists that it was important to defend Defending Tawang in a future conflict .

As Royalists and Parliamentarians prepared GetReady for war , Parliament had access Having_or_lacking_access to more military material , due Causation to its possession of all major cities including the large arsenal in London .

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By 1987 , the Vadamarachchi Operation of the Sri Lankan military had cornered the LTTE in Jaffna , on the tip of the island and were confident of bringing Bringing an end Process_end to the conflict .

Following Self_motion the successful completion Process_end of the mission , and faced Motion with the possibility of further involvement of the Indian military , including reports Reporting that Indian ground forces Military_operation were being prepared GetReady for possible involvement in Sri Lanka , Sri Lanka President J. R. Jayewardene held Hold talks Telling with the Indian government to resolve Resolve_problem the dispute Quarreling .

Israeli government is convinced Coming_to_believe that Iran is interested in creating Creating territorial contiguity from Iran to the Mediterranean and in transferring Military_operation military forces – including naval vessels , fighter planes and thousands of troops – to permanent bases in Syria and is trying to `` Lebanonize '' Syria and take over Military_operation using Using Shi'ite militias , as it had done with Hezbollah in Lebanon .

The Israeli military is reportedly preparing GetReady itself for potential threats should there be a power vacuum in Syria .

Slovak military forces advanced Cause_to_make_progress alongside the Germans in northern Slovakia .

On 8 October , after an initial period of military administration , Germany directly annexed western Poland and the former Free City of Danzig and placed Placing the remaining block of territory under the administration of the newly established Building General Government .

many of the military exiles that managed Control to escape poland subsequently joined Becoming_a_member the polish armed forces in the west , an armed force loyal to the polish government-in-exile .

The Junker mutiny ( ) was a counterrevolutionary mutiny of military school cadets in Petrograd against the Bolsheviks in October 1917 .

Former Commander-in-Chief of the Petrograd military okrug , Colonel Georgi Polkovnikov , pronounced Statement himself as commander of the so-called `` Salvation Army '' ( войска спасения ) and ordered Arranging his garrison not to execute orders issued by the Petrograd Military Revolutionary Committee ( PMRC ) , arrest Arrest its commissars , and send Sending representatives from all military units to Nikolayevskoye School of Engineers ( a.k.a .

Former Commander-in-Chief of the Petrograd military okrug , Colonel Georgi Polkovnikov , pronounced Statement himself as commander of the so-called `` Salvation Army '' ( войска спасения ) and ordered Arranging his garrison not to execute orders issued by the Petrograd Military Revolutionary Committee ( PMRC ) , arrest Arrest its commissars , and send Sending representatives from all military units to Nikolayevskoye School of Engineers ( a.k.a .

at 8:30 a.m. on october 29 , the leaders of the junker mutiny sent Sending out telegrams all over petrograd , announcing the success of the rebellion and calling out for the arrest of all the pmrc commissars and the concentration of participating military units at the unk school of engineers .

Al-Mabhouh—a co-founder of the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades , the military wing of Hamas—was wanted by the Israeli government for the kidnapping Kidnapping and murder Killing of two Israeli soldiers in 1989 as well as purchasing Commerce_buy arms from Iran for use Using in Gaza ; these have been cited as a possible motive for the assassination Killing .

Hamas , which is itself on the U.S. State Department list of Foreign Terrorist Organizations , European Union lists of terrorist Terrorism organizations , and also considered a terrorist Terrorism organization Being_in_operation by the governments of Israel , and Japan , as is its military arm by the United Kingdom and Australia , requested Request that Israel be added Cause_change_of_position_on_a_scale by the EU to its list because of suspicions that Israel was involved Cause_to_be_included in the assassination Killing .

The August 2012 Sinai attack Attack occurred Presence on 5 August 2012 , when armed men ambushed Attack an Egyptian military base in the Sinai Peninsula , killing Killing 16 soldiers and stealing Theft two armored cars , which they used Using to infiltrate Self_motion into Israel .

The aircraft is sometimes incorrectly referred Adducing to as a C-47 Skytrain or Douglas Dakota , which were names given Giving to the military variant of the DC-3 .

Somerset Arthur Gough-Calthorpe—the British signatory of the Mudros Armistice—stated the Triple Entente′s public position that they had no intention to dismantle Destroying the government of the Ottoman Empire or place it under military occupation by `` occupying Constantinople '' .