Sentences with phrase «u.s. military power»

Neither U.S. military power nor regional balancing has stopped Beijing from seeking to displace core components of the U.S. - led system.

What if the effect of projecting U.S. military power was not to solve problems, but to exacerbate them?

Some of Gibson's positions, like his call for less reliance on U.S. military power overseas and more stringent civil liberties protections at home, have shown cross party appeal.

They will hold business and bureaucratic vetoes over any over departure from economic neoliberalism enforced by U.S. military power.

We also should begin to reconfigure U.S. military power to fit the needs of future Security Council engagements.

It is worthwhile to recall that the first exercise of U.S. military power well beyond its borders was the repression of piracy by the Barbary Pirates on the high seas — not an interstate conflict at all.

It focuses on conventional U.S. military power as an instrument enabling state cooperation, so drones» smaller footprint becomes a political drawback.

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Last month, U.S. President Barack Obama issued an executive order demanding Ralls Corp., a Chinese company, abandon a wind power project located near a military base in Oregon.

The U.S. military's 15 - year focus on counterinsurgency during the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan allowed other military powers — in particular China — to produce new equipment and modernize its forces at a rate that has Pentagon leaders concerned.

The military campaign has undermined U.S. - Myanmar ties that had improved with Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi's release from house arrest and return to power.

Toward creditor nations, however, America relates as the world's most Highly Indebted Military Power by refusing to raise its own interest rates or taxes, or to permit key U.S. industries to be sold off.

The report — «Power Surge: How the DoD Leverages Private Resources to Enhance Energy Security and Save Money on U.S. Military Bases» — is the third in a series of influential studies issued since 2011 by the Pew Project on National Security, Energy and Climate.

In contrast to the neoconservative view that the U.S. should seek to attain absolute dominance in military power and political influence, our founders sought equality and mutual respect among men and between nations.

Fairbanks Morse - an EnPro Industries company (NYSE: NPO) and leading provider of solutions that are powering the world forward - has been awarded a $ 17.3 million multi-year services contract by Military Sealift Command (MSC), which services U.S. military shipsMilitary Sealift Command (MSC), which services U.S. military shipsmilitary ships at sea.

The economic and military power, first of Britain and now of the U.S., speaks for itself, but Mead thinks that the global order is also held together by ideas.

It is turning into a combination of ideological tics and irritable gestures even as the worst actors gain power.Ross Douthat argues that the Obama administration is shifting the U.S.'s foreign policy strategy from a Pax Americana model (where the U.S. uses military force to impose order) to one of offshore balancing (where the U.S. strategically sides with one local power or another while keeping U.S. commitments to a minimum).

The idea that the U.S. was an unquestioned military colossus athwart the world, which no power or people could effectively oppose, was hubristic nonsense certain to get the country into deep trouble — as it did — and bring the U.S. Army to the point of collapse, as happened in Vietnam and may well happen again in Iraq (and Afghanistan).

The Bush administration is loaded with policymakers who have long maintained that the U.S. should use its overwhelming economic and military power to remake the world in the image of Western capitalist democracy.

After the Soviet Union imploded in 1991, a number of hardline anticommunists began arguing that the U.S. must use its military and economic power to remake the world and put down Americas remaining enemies.

The hierarchy of power remained the U.S. embassy at the pinnacle, the Salvadoran military and economic elites a little below, and the civilian government looking good in U.S. papers but nearly powerless in practice.

and Guatemala (the real power brokers along with the U.S. embassy and economic elites) agreed to U.S. plans for elections in the 1980s after the United States assured them that, following the elections, their power would be enhanced through large increases in military assistance.

The U.S. could take stronger initiative in the global development of nuclear power; we are regarded as the creators of atomic energy, but so far military uses have been more impressive than peaceful ones.

The idea behind FOCUS is simple: large school districts procure so much food that they have considerable market power (second only to the U.S. military when it comes to food purchasing), which FOCUS helps them leverage to pressure manufacturers into producing better food.

It depends upon the long - range capabilities of the U.S. Navy and Air Force to overcome the mines, submarines, anti-ship missiles and other advanced technology designed to keep the U.S. military out of «exclusion zones» established by potentially hostile powers.

«As we have seen in the U.S., no country is immune to the global financial problems and even the world's biggest military power is now grappling with how to make defence cuts and reform for the future.»

At a Nov. 8 news conference, Mangano called on the U.S. military to take over power restoration.

The report is replete with examples of the social controversies involving science and technology at that time - the biological and environmental effects of nuclear weapons testing, DDT and other dioxins, the use of defoliants and herbicides by the U.S. military in Vietnam, the safety of nuclear power plants, the ban on fetal research, a moratorium on recombinant DNA research, the need for human subject protections and informed consent in genetics research, the misuse of psychology as a tool for torture, the implications of national security controls on science; misconduct in science, and the role of and protections for whistleblowers - many of which continue to resonate in the science and society relationship of today.

In order to protect supply lines, the U.S. military is making a big push into green energy, from biofuel - burning planes to geothermal - powered bases to an all - green carrier strike group.

Despite 50 years of research on high - power microwaves, the U.S. military has yet to produce a usable weapon

The plant's operator, Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO), had to turn to U.S. military - grade robots, such as iRobot's 510 PackBot, to get its first glimpses inside the facility.

The company has already supplied the U.S. military and outdoor enthusiasts with portable field chargers, largely for communication and other small electronic devices powered by such cells.

In fact, Patriot Power Greens has been so effective that many soldiers in the U.S. military now swear by it...

U.S. military officials say the aircraft went down after hitting a power line in western Anbar province.

A U.S. military helicopter crashed after hitting a power line in Iraq's western Anbar province, killing all seven personnel aboard, the Pentagon said Friday.

This film is not an appropriate way to wrap your head around the depth of incompetence and greed at play in U.S. Military's halls of power and the rogue's gallery of shysters that feed on America's endless wars.

NSBA letter «Helping Students Succeed Through the Power of School Choice» asks the U.S. House of Representative subcommittee hearing to review the options provided by public school districts such as local magnet schools and charter schools authorized by local school boards to military academies and those schools offering STEM.

Since April 2017, the Army has been testing the commercial Chevrolet Colorado ZH2 on its U.S. bases to determine the viability of hydrogen - powered vehicles in military mission tactical environments.

General Motors is partnering with the U.S. Military's Army Tank Automotive Research, Development, and Engineering Center to build and test a fuel cell - powered pickup for use in a military applMilitary's Army Tank Automotive Research, Development, and Engineering Center to build and test a fuel cell - powered pickup for use in a military applmilitary application.

Source: General Motors Press Release is on Page 2 Mission - Ready Chevrolet Colorado ZH2 Fuel Cell Vehicle Breaks Cover at U.S. Army Show Modified midsize pickup goes into extreme military field testing in 2017 WASHINGTON, D.C. — The physically imposing Chevrolet Colorado ZH2, the most extreme off - road - capable fuel - cell - powered electric vehicle ever from General Motors, was revealed today at the fall meeting of the Association of the United States Army (AUSA).

Electricity is also heavily utilised as the U.S. militaries defensive structures need a constant supply to operate, thus opponents will likely look to knock out power quickly in order to bring in helicopters and more.

Consider that some AGW skeptics say scientists are pursuing climate change research only because that's where the funding is, and you begin to see why the U.S. will eventually be a second - rate power with the world's best military.

The U.S. military is already transitioning to renewable power to prevent blackouts at its bases, and the logic of their shift applies on a grander scale.

The report, titled «Post-Partisan Power,» convincingly argues that the U.S. government should invest roughly $ 25 billion per year (about 0.2 percent of America's GDP) in low - carbon military procurement, R & D, and a new network of university - private sector innovation hubs to create an «energy revolution.»

But in this rivalry with the industrial powers of the East, the future Silicon Valley would find a powerful customer with deep pockets - the U.S. military.

Private money is financing privately developed renewable energy projects, beginning with geothermal, that will power U.S. military installations.

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