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Less than three weeks after the terrorist destruction of the World Trade Centre on 9th September 2001, the United Nations Security Council passed Resolution 1373 for UN Committee on Counter Terrorism. The CTC is working to establish norms for respecting human rights and civil liberties while...

A standing army is a permanent military force, entirely under the command of a single authority. This is almost always a national government, although in the past European colonial companies sometimes maintained their own private military forces, as did feudal barons and warlords (for example...