... Macedonians III. The Black Hand IV. The Insurgents and the Swastika V. KLA – The Army of Liberation VI. Appendix: Pathological Narcissism, Group ... ...Stefano unwillingly, following a terminal defeat at the hands of a wrathful Russian army. The newly re-invented nation incorporated a huge swathe o... ... IMRO, as expediently as he could. He made too many powerful enemies too fast: the army (by cutting their inflated budget), the nationalists (by of... ...other (the Karadjordjevic's). A young officer, a member of the general staff of the army, by the name of Dragutin Dimitrijevic ("Apis" - the "Holy B... ... federation - were mortified to find themselves in a Serb-dominated "Third World", Byzantine polity. This was especially galling to the Croats ... ...ed themselves to be the proper heirs of their former masters: murderous, suborned, Byzantine and nearsighted. In an effort to justify their mis... ...b and Bulgarian churches collaborated with the rulers of the day against perceived Byzantine (Greek and Russian) political encroachment in religiou... ...ewess. Southern Orthodox Christianity (as opposed to the virulent and vituperative Byzantine species) has always been pragmatic. The minorities ... ...he debate and supported the Greek position. Sects such as the Hesychasts were more Byzantine than the Greeks and denounced wavering Orthodox clergy...

...oping its domination from Middle Orient, Elbrus, and Northern Africa until the Southeastern Europe, in Balkans. As it had a numerous and well-trained army, the Ottoman Empire was guided during its entire existence, by the policy of continuous expansion, often threatening Europe by the invasion. In the XV century, the Ottoman Empire developed such a strong military force, t...

...the second time in order to force the removal of the former. The Kosovo Liberation Army, an American anti- Milosevic pet, provoked a civil war in Ma... ...r constitutions and ordinances (and in international law). Only state organs - the army, the police - are permitted to kill, torture, and incarcera... ...nence of the military in republican Rome. Yet, this is misleading. The role of the army in the Roman republic was enshrined in the centuriate assem... ... voting collective) and the consuls, magistrates in chief were, invariably, former army generals. Though many American presidents, starting with Ge... ...y spread inexorably throughout the fertile Anatolia, confronting in the process the Byzantines and the Mongols. They were no match to the brute effi... ...the Marble (Marmara) Sea. His desperate struggles against the corrupt and decadent Byzantines, made him the Robin Hood, the folk hero of the millio... ...ht the Islamic terrorism on its borders all by itself. Mercenaries imported by the Byzantines from Europe served only to destabilize it further. Os... ...st of Anatolia and the Balkan. They even employed Christian mercenaries against the Byzantines. When Orhan, a successor of Osman, secured a territor... ...d Nicomedia (1337). Faced with the loss of the historic heart of their empire, the Byzantines accepted a Faustian deal. They made peace with the Mo...

...ur le Baron Hulot d’Ervy, Commissary General under the Repub- lic, retired army contractor, and at the present time at the head of one of the most imp... ...on’s good graces. After 1807, Baron Hulot was Com- missary General for the army in Spain. Having rung the bell, the citizen-captain made strenuous eff... ...ere compelled by the Republican conscription to set out with the so-called army of the Rhine. In 1799 the second brother, Andre, a widower, and Ma- da... ...Hulot d’Ervy, finding them intelligent and honest, had taken them from the army provision wag- ons to place them in charge of a government contract ne... ...s of glittering ornaments that sparkled on the rich uniforms of the French army and civil officials. The 31 Balzac Emperor, a true Italian in his lov... ...he rigid, slim figure. Lisbeth, like a Virgin by Cranach or Van Eyck, or a Byzantine Madonna stepped out of its frame, had all the stiffness, the prec...

...en be brought up. But in the present condition of things, which resembles an Army in battle array, ought not the Cynic to be free from all distraction... ... usual is enjoined; not understanding to what condition you are bringing the army, so far as in you lies. If all were to follow your example, none wou... ...gs. Most have been preserved in the Anthology of John of Stobi (Stobaeus), a Byzantine collector, of whom scarcely anything is known but that he proba...

...himself and his compatriots in the Retreat of the Ten Thousand. “After the army had crossed the river Teleboas in Armenia, there fell much snow, and t... ...gan to split wood; whereupon others rose and did the like.” Throughout his army exists a boundless liberty of speech. They quarrel for plunder, they w... ...cumbering it of all aids. The Emperor held it impossible to make a perfect army, says Las Cases, “without abolishing our arms, magazines, commissaries... ... is a Chinese wall which any nimble Tartar can leap over. It is a standing army, not so good as a peace. It is a gradu- ated, titled, richly appointed... ... attitude, and affirms his ability to cope single-handed with the infinite army of enemies. To this military attitude of the soul we give the name of ... ... dealing nobly with all, all would show themselves noble. I know that this Byzantine pile of chivalry or Fashion, which seems so fair and picturesque ...

... the factory, are orga- nized like soldiers. As privates of the industrial army they are placed under the command of a perfect hierarchy of officers a... ... career as Socialists, and have ended it not infrequently by employing the army to oppress strikers. Millerand’s action was the most notable and drama... ...ble to call upon the Militia and even, in a crisis, upon the United States Army. What French Syndicalists say about the State as a capitalist institu-... ...d prevent a combination of ambitious men forming themselves into a private army, manufacturing their own munitions, and at last enslaving the defensel... ...of Anarchism for the community to interfere with the drilling of a private army, no matter what its objects might be (though, of course, an opposing p... ...ill there still be a sufficient spur to progress to prevent a condition of Byzantine immobility? In considering this question we are, in a certain sen...

...racci, Prideaux, and others, in recent days, one of whom has found, in the Byzantine “Maometis,” the number of the Beast (Rev. xii)! It is nearer to t... ...passionate, the Merciful HAST thou not seen 1 how thy Lord dealt with the army of the ELEPHANT? Did he not cause their stratagem to miscarry? And he ... ...ime for his own encouragement, on the ground of their deliverance from the army of Abraha, the Christian King of Abyssinia and Arabia Felix, said to h... ...n expe- dition against Mecca for the purpose of destroying the Caaba. This army was cut off by small-pox (Wakidi; Hishami), and there is no doubt, as ... ...d of all that is between them theirs? Then let them mount up by cords! Any army of the confederates4 shall here be routed. Before them the people of N... ...ath been to me, and that He hath made me one of His honoured ones.” But no army sent we down out of heaven after his death, nor were we then sending d...