word | | Military - note |
| impact | Cuba | ... Union deprived the Cuban military of its major economic and logistic support and had a significant impact on the state of Cuban equipment; the army remains well trained and professional in nature ... |
| implementing | Argentina | ... country's prolonged economic hardship; the country has recently experienced a strong recovery, and the military is implementing a modernization plan aimed at making the ground forces lighter and more responsive (2008 |
| improved | Lesotho | ... the defense apparatus to civilian control and restoring the LDF's cohesion; the restructuring has considerably improved capabilities and professionalism, but the LDF is disproportionately large for a small, poor country; the ... |
| improving | Sao Tome and Principe | ... in the 1995 and 2003 coups; these issues are being addressed with foreign assistance aimed at improving the army and its focus on realistic security concerns; command is exercised from the president ... |
| inadequate | Maldives | ... the Maldives National Defense Force (MNDF), with its small size and with little serviceable equipment, is inadequate to prevent external aggression and is primarily tasked to reinforce the Maldives Police Service (MPS ... |
| increasing | Turkey | ... power in 2002 and reduced the role of the Turkish Armed Forces (TSK) in internal security, increasing the responsibility to the Turkish National Police (TNP) in combating its Kurdish insurgency; the TSK ... |
| increasingly | Barbados | ... single, part-time battalion with a small regular cadre that is deployed throughout the island; it increasingly supports the police in patrolling the coastline to prevent smuggling and other illicit activities (2007 |
| increasingly | Cuba | ... trained and professional in nature; while the lack of replacement parts for its existing equipment has increasingly affected operational capabilities, Cuba remains able to offer considerable resistance to any regional power (2010 |
| incrementally | Turkey | the ruling Justice and Development (AKP) has incrementally asserted its supremacy over the military since first taking power in 2002 and reduced the role of the Turkish Armed Forces (TSK) in internal ... |
| Independent | Georgia | a Commonwealth of Independent States peacekeeping force of Russian troops is deployed in the Abkhazia region of Georgia together with a UN military observer group; a Russian peacekeeping battalion is deployed in ... |