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In 1973, the United States Army was in turmoil as a result of the Vietnam War drawing to an end. [1] Some of the contributing factors to the perceived degradation of the NCO Corps was the end of the draft "Modern Volunteer Army", Secretary of Defense Robert MacNamara's "Project 100,000" and the Noncommissioned officer candidate course.
The program started as a U.S. Army proposal to place a scientific satellite into orbit during the International Geophysical Year (1957–58). However, that proposal was rejected in favor of the U.S. Navy's Project Vanguard. The Explorer program was later reestablished to catch up with the Soviet Union after the launch of Sputnik 1 in October 1957.
[5] [a] A hybrid force, the group maintains "robust conventional and unconventional military capabilities", [7] and is generally considered to be the most powerful non-state actor in the world. [8] [9] [b] [7] [11] Estimates vary widely, but as of October 2021, Hezbollah's leader Hassan Nasrallah claimed his organization has 100,000 trained ...
ISO/TC 22 specifies in-vehicle transport information and control systems, [121] while ISO/TC 204 specifies information, communication and control systems in surface transport. [122] International standards have been developed for ADAS functions, connectivity, human interaction, in-vehicle systems, management/engineering, dynamic map and ...
The CIA estimated in 2009 that 99.7% of the Afghan population was Muslim [267] and most are thought to adhere to the Sunni Hanafi school. [456] According to Pew Research Center, as much as 90% are of the Sunni denomination, 7% Shia and 3% non-denominational. [457] The CIA Factbook variously estimates up to 89.7% Sunni or up to 15% Shia. [267]
Rwanda, [a] officially the Republic of Rwanda, is a landlocked country in the Great Rift Valley of East Africa, where the African Great Lakes region and Southeast Africa converge.
Vietnam hosted roughly 13 million tourists in 2017, an increase of 29.1% over the previous year, making it one of the fastest growing tourist destinations in the world. The vast majority of the tourists in the country, some 9.7 million, came from Asia; namely China (4 million), South Korea (2.6 million), and Japan (798,119). [331]
India is the habitat for 8.6% of all mammals, 13.7% of bird species, 7.9% of reptile species, 6% of amphibian species, 12.2% of fish species, and 6.0% of all flowering plant species. [ 196 ] [ 197 ] Fully a third of Indian plant species are endemic. [ 198 ]