Sentences with phrase «us military power»

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

Kennedy's «far - ranging survey explores the relationship between economics, strategy, technology, and military power.

you can easily project military power into Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Iran, Jordan and Kuwait, and threaten Russia's southern flank and Egypt.

Resentments of America returned, 50 years after General Eisenhower's (mainly American) armies had liberated western Europe, including most of Germany, 75 years after General Pershing's Expeditionary Forces saved the victory of France and the British Empire on the Western Front, and as soon as American firmness and economic and military power had induced the bloodless collapse of the Soviet empire and Union, and of international communism.

«Firstly, he has questioned the usefulness of stationing American troops in Japan and South Korea, thus challenging the pillars of US military power in East Asia for the last 70 years (the US maintains 40,000 troops in Japan and 28,000 troops in South Korea).

The proposed rise in the Pentagon budget to $ 603 billion comes as the United States has wound down major wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and remains the world's strongest military power.

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.

While the political legitimacy for such moves should come from the UN or other international bodies, the military power to enforce them must come from the United States.

People of peace, we use our military power sparingly; but when we do so we do so with full conviction, gathering our forces as men and women who believe that the freedoms we enjoy can not be taken from us.

However, it seems the current developments are not linked solely to social issues, but rather to the growing instability and tensions between the main military power factions in the country.

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.

This is why the first two democratic nations, the Netherlands and Britain after its 1688 revolution, developed the most active capital markets and proceeded to become leading military powers.

We are extremely uncomfortable about the fact that some countries who have confidence on their military power are using Syria as their arm - wrestling field,» he said.

Setting aside the shortcomings of the Belt and Road concept, the «OBOR hype» around the world points to a real and fundamental trend — the ascent of China as a truly global economic and military power.

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.

Both men (68 %) and women (62 %) also agree that China's growing military power is a threat to the Asia Pacific region.

The military powers are not power realities in themselves, but they influence every aspect of the human life in a given society and in the world, for militarization of politics, economic structures, and cultural values is the pervasive phenomenon.

Avram reminds readers that there is wisdom in listening to one's enemies and asks why a nation's power should he equated with military power.

They deserve the kind of resources of time, talent, and money now poured into the expansion of military power.

These goon squads often work closely with the military power of the state.

The transition from a superpower duopoly, in terms of military power, to a world monopoly, however, has had, among other effects during the 1990s, that of destabilising the fragile balance upon which the international multilateralism of the United Nations had been able to function, well or badly, during the 1960s and 1970s (following the «defrosting» and decolonisation, both the results of social, cultural, democratic and national struggle).

Too often we've used the technological, economic, and even military power of Christendom to push Christian ideas on people.

In a world as dangerous as ours, a judicious use of military power is probably unavoidable, I did not oppose the war in the Persian Gulf: annexation by force must be reversed.

Even though, as a Christian, I can only support military action with fear and trembling, I am not arguing that all use of military power is wrong.

Wahhabism soon gathered sufficient military power not only to capture Mecca and Medina, but to take over the whole of Arabia and move into Iraq, where it captured and partially destroyed the mosque in Karbala, so sacred to the Shi'ites.

No nation will be allowed to surpass or even equal American military power, and indeed other nations are advised to limit or destroy any «weapons of mass destruction» they may have, and that includes Russia, China and India.

Thus we are skeptical of Jimmy Carter's early posture of refusing to use military power, and we reject Ronald Reagan's position that force and bluster can solve our problems.

I cherish instead the notion that if we could understand not only the sociology and psychology of religion but also the religion of religion; if we could get at the roots of conviction in the lives of profound believers in the open society; if we could combine civility with devotion — if we could do these things, religious forces might retrieve some initiative and offer examples for coexistence in the world of the nations and the military powers.

Israel retaliates by exercising increasing military power.

In 1967 the Christians in the Muslim country begin to immigrate, escaping the prosecutions, the Muslim were glade to see the natives leaving, but they realized that if they would move in large numbers to the USA, Canada and Europe, they will have larger control of the world, the technology and military power and eventually they can force their believe and convert the world, they are now hear, and successfully working on their plan and some day they will master their missions..

On the one hand, there is a strong resistance to the use of military power, rising in some Roman Catholic documents and papal statements to a «presumption against war» and the suggestion that recourse to military power is always bad.

Counterbalancing this trend is the frequent advocacy (often by the same groups and individuals) of using military power in humanitarian causes.

The RCC has been around so long because of money, political and military power, and corruption.

This report is the third of a three - part series on Israel by Editor James M. Wall: Israel has found itself in the uncomfortable role of an occupying military power, controlling the lives of a large population of Palestinian Arabs.

A further feature of empirical contemporary warfare is that it involves face - to - face uses of military power by the participants against one another, not the remote destruction of distant, unseen, and often abstract targets.

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.

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.

Do they know if the balance of military power were reversed in the mideast that there would not be an Israeli left.

We see the evils that military power can destroy (while ignoring all the evils it creates), and believe that similar tactics could be used to advance the cause of Christ.

In a world where political problems are thought of and worked upon within a frame of reference whose coordinates are nationalism and military power, these ecology - oriented organizations are regarded as peripheral.

It not only implies, for the several national «governments», the prospect of having to waive a substantial portion of the pomp, prerogative and privilege which they now enjoy as the traditional concomitants of the possession of national military power, and having to content themselves with the considerably smaller amount of glory which is reserved for mere units of local administration.

Our wealth and military power produce affability on the world's face and curses in its heart.

It was they, not the Marcionite or gnostic Christians, who developed a communal life strong enough to become the great majority and win the Empire, despite their lack of social, economic, intellectual, political or military power.

By shifting our attention from the now completely irrelevant and anachronistic politics of nationalism and military power to the problems of the human species and the still inchoate politics of human ecology we shall be killing two birds with one stone — reducing the threat of sudden destruction by scientific war and at the same time reducing the threat of a more gradual biological disaster.

Whatever happened to Japan, who trusted in man, or in their military power?

The mark of the beast is spiritual, and identical to the pledged of allegiance to the flag, because worshipping doesn't come from a chip, or any technology device, although we are surrounded by human devices... The name of the beast is going to be written in the heart, or in the mind on those who worship the beast, because worshipping is of the heart, or of the mind... When the Germans used their right hand to pledge allegiance to the flag, or to Hitler, there was no physical mark in the right hand, or forehead of the German pledger, because the pledge of allegiance to the flag, or to Hitler, was written in the heart, or in the mind of the German pledger... When the US uses their right hand to pledge allegiance to the flag, there is no physical mark in the right hand, or on the forehead of the pledger, because the pledge of allegiance to the flag, is written in the heart, or in the mind of the pledger... The devil uses Romans 13 to deceive those who are pledging allegiance to the flag, because they do not believe what God said in Ex.20: 1 - 5, and De.4: 15 - 19... When a person pledges allegiance to a man, or to a flag, or to a nation, they are heading for destruction, because God said; «cursed be the man that trusteth in man, and make flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth from the LORD Jer.17: 5 KJV... Whatever happened to the Germans who trusted in Hitler, or on their military power?

It is easier to imagine him sitting on the edge of Moscow, and on the edge of Washington, and on the edge of Beijing and Johannesburg and Tel Aviv and Baghdad, and all other seats of military power, and weeping: «If you, even you, had only recognized on this day the things that make for peace!»

Military power can be gradually replaced by soft power.

The final question, as to the Christian conscience and the coercive use of military power by one State upon another, we shall defer to the next chapter which will be devoted centrally to this issue.

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.