Sentences with phrase «increased military presence»

Refugees poured into Sikkim after China's 1959 crackdown in Tibet, and India established an increased military presence along the border near Lhasa.

President Barack Obama declared Thursday that the United States will take an expanded role in shaping the Asian Pacific region, with an increased military presence one...

Senior levels of Australia's defense force are said to believe China wants to increase its military presence in the South Pacific via the island nation of Vanuatu.

NATO is expected to spend more on defense and increase its military presence in Afghanistan by «a few thousand more troops,» said the alliance's chief, insisting that the coalition troops will not participate in combat operations.

If it won't sustain and increase its military presence here, the other internationals will start heading for the exit.

The Defence Secretary has recommended a substantial increase military presence to the prime minister.

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Last week, U.S. Navy Adm. Philip Davidson, the expected nominee to replace U.S. Pacific Command Chief Adm. Harry Harris, described China's increased presence in the South China Sea as «a substantial challenge to U.S. military operations in this region.»

Military spouses can harness this increase in flexibility to their advantage as a means of gaining and maintaining employment while continuing their presence in the home for their children and supporting their active counterpart.

In 2016, for example, Kyrgyzstan canceled a project with several Russian companies to build five hydropower plants, citing the Russian entities» inability to secure financing.28 In Tajikistan, the Russian military has periodically been unable to pay its local Tajik staff at its base there, even though the base purportedly serves as a key bulwark in Russia's defense against regional instability.29 That same year, Moscow pledged over $ 1 billion in security assistance to Dushanbe and promised to increase its troop presence in the country by 2,000 soldiers.30 Yet neither appears to have materialized, which raises questions about Russia's true capacity and willingness to respond to a security crisis in the region and to project influence there.

Executed multipronged strategy of positively engaging China while reasserting U.S. leadership in the region by increasing American military presence and crafting new commercial, diplomatic, and military alliances with neighboring countries made uncomfortable by recent Chinese behavior.

Particularly for Colorado Springs, a town with a strong military presence, we owe it to our soldiers to increase our national security and decrease the chance of putting them in harms way by making it easier for consumers to adopt alternative fuel vehicle.