Sentences with phrase «military planners»

Considering and planning for risks, even unlikely risks, is what military planners do.

Military planners do not want their near - term options limited by speculative possibilities.

Advancements in Russian armor have been cause for concern among military planners in the West.

In addition, the current interest among military planners in projects such as solar power — spurred partly by the wish to reduce the risks involved in shipping fuel to troops in the field — could lead to commercial applications, the researchers state.

The Pentagon wouldn't discuss the issue, citing operational security, other than to say military planners develop «multiple supply chain contingencies» to sustain their mission.

Repentance was far from the minds of U.S. military planners and economic elites in the post-Vietnam period.

Moreover, he says, if the model is right about modern insurgencies» being a constantly shifting collection of small, unconnected groups, it would be a useful tool for military planners trying to find the most effective tactics.

To senior military planners, counterinsurgency had a clear meaning — and a defined prescription.

If military planners — under unremitting pressure each year to meet budgetary constraints — must constantly look abroad for bargains, this support may vanish rapidly.

However obvious this seems today, it was a concept that escaped American military planners when the fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan began nearly a decade ago.

U.S. military planners hope to rely on improved versions of the technologies tested in the Gulf War to help fight the next Saddam Hussein.

Military planners simulate conditions, battles, and equipment.

Instead of placing faith in the decisions made by a few military planners within the Pentagon about the feasibility of autonomous weapons, we need an open debate within the Obama administration and within the international community as to whether prohibitions on autonomous offensive weapons are implicit under existing international humanitarian law.

A moratorium would indicate that military planners recognize that this class of weaponry is problematic.

The report cites the Arctic as a region of particular concern for military planners.

Goldfein told Air Force Times that military planners were already evaluating how to implement Trump's new approach, but the exact details are yet to be decided.

Military planners are struggling to work out what to prioritise as question - marks about the future proliferate.

American diplomats and military planners have already started grappling with some of these problems — but the links between them do not get enough attention, the experts said.

The plot involves a convoluted one by a shadowy group to save Gotham City by destroying it, the villains no doubt having taken a leaf out of the military planners of the Vietnam war's book.

Critics say such a «useable» nuke would increase, not decrease, the likelihood of the nuclear war that military planners say they want to avoid.

Military planners have expressed concern that climate change adds another layer of risk in many such regions.

RobB agrees with Rod B. I was a military planner until recently and an environmental factor such as climate is merely one planning consideration amongst many.

Many of those now denouncing the pollution of the skies see climate science as part of the problem: a conspiracy by corporations, military planners and other nefarious interests to control the atmosphere.

The intent of the military planners who authored the directive is to put in place extensive controls for maintaining the safety of autonomous weaponry.