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Post-war photo of Ferdinand E. Marcos. The military career of Ferdinand Marcos during World War II remains the subject of controversy. [96] [97] Marcos received ROTC training while studying at the University of the Philippines. He was activated for service in the US Armed Forces in the Philippines after the attack on Pearl Harbor.
The power structures of dictatorships vary, and different definitions of dictatorship consider different elements of this structure. Political scientists such as Juan José Linz and Samuel P. Huntington identify key attributes that define the power structure of a dictatorship, including a single leader or a small group of leaders, the exercise of power with few limitations, limited political ...
But the company’s leadership changed in recent weeks, and the firm brokered a deal to end a longstanding intellectual property dispute with one of South Korea’s main nuclear companies, opening ...
In declaring martial law, Marcos promised to save the country from "an oligarchy that appropriated for itself all power and bounty". But while he did indeed tame selected oligarchs most threatening to his regime, he simply replaced them with a new oligarchy of Marcos and his relatives and cronies which achieved dominance within many economic ...
The Rookie is an American drama series created by Alexi Hawley for ABC. The series follows John Nolan, a man in his forties, who becomes the oldest rookie at the Los Angeles Police Department. The series is produced by 20th Television and Lionsgate Television ; it is based on real-life Los Angeles Police Department officer William Norcross, who moved to Los Angeles in 2015 and joined the ...
The CIA's leadership of the operation allowed it to retain control over any documents deemed necessary for clandestine operations. [ 179 ] In the subsequent decade, the documents gathered were used by the authors of several books, most frequently with covert CIA assistance, which described the Guatemalan Revolution and the 1954 coup in terms ...
A "social-democratic" theory says that imperialistic U.S. policies are the products of the excessive influence of certain sectors of U.S. business and government—the arms industry in alliance with military and political bureaucracies and sometimes other industries such as oil and finance, a combination often referred to as the "military ...
Aside from the public sphere, similar democratic principles and mechanisms of voting and representation have been used to govern other kinds of groups. Many non-governmental organisations decide policy and leadership by voting. Most trade unions and cooperatives are governed by democratic elections.