Sentences with phrase «military power»

Spending this much on military power was always a business decision in the end.

It would have to keep population suppressed by military power.

This is the main reason the major military powers have all discontinued use of chemical weapons.

First, is this a prudent exercise of American military power?

I have only recently become aware that our national policy is now geared to maintaining overwhelming military power so that no nation or group of nations can challenge our global domination.

Last month, his signature appeared on an open letter to world military powers warning that weapons technology using artificial intelligence would almost certainly result in a global arms race.

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.

A case can be made for that, but American alliances and military power help maintain international trade flows and multiple regional state systems.

Today, to be American is to feel confined by a new kind of fear no less strong because it exists behind a shield of unprecedented military power.

The picture was widely distributed as a press photograph by both the Japanese and German governments during the war to celebrate Japanese military power.

Those who adopt this view recognise that being the dominant economic, political and military power does not mean that it can sweep all before it.

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

Now, in a different political environment, we are again grappling with the morality of American military power.

It is impossible to understand Russia's preoccupation over seven decades with military power without understanding the country's experience in WW2.

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

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

Boasting substantial military power over my own weaker forces, because at the time I hadn't realised pure brute force was going to be so important, they ran roughshod over me.

Tsars were strong rulers, with great military power (e.g.they stopped Napoleon's expansion), and cultural influence.

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A movement that began by viewing the acquisition of political and military power as a satanic temptation now viewed it as a divine blessing.

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By demonstrating Russia's ability to project military power on the world stage, Russian President Vladimir Putin has rallied nationalist sentiments around his government.

«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).

Behold, a young woman shall conceive and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel» (7:14) Less familiar is its context: Isaiah has been pleading with King Ahaz to put his trust in God's promise to Israel rather than in alliances with strong military powers like Syria.

It is a crucial American ally not only because Israel is the leading military power in the Middle East and a technological powerhouse with more venture capital investment than the whole of Europe (the instrumental dimension of Augustinian realism) but also because of the deep ties between the American founding and the Jewish religion and the strong bonds between Israelis and America's 6.4 million Jews (the moral dimension).

There was no seamless line between the outpouring of US economic and military power during the war years and what became a massive aid programmeto Europe worth $ 130 bn in today's money.

Ditto on the relations between military power and diplomacy and between race and a just economic system.

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

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.

And yet, because of the hysteria of anti-Zionism, over the past 20 years among the major Arab powers and the Palestine Liberation Organization, Israel has found itself in the uncomfortable role of an occupying military power, controlling the lives of a large population of Palestinian Arabs.

As a major global military power, Russia is clearly «able» to thwart ISIS — certainly just as well as most of the Western NATO states participating in airstrikes already.

It was during IBB's halcyon years, of military power without responsibility; and endless wayward experimentation, that his junta dubbed political transition.

«Part of the appeal of the UK is its cultural reach, the things that make it a force on the world stage but aren't about military power.

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

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

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 Gorka echoed the president and Secretary of State Rex Tillerson in characterizing North Korea as a «grave threat» to the US, he added that the country posed a «very, very insignificant threat in terms of scale,» arguing that the country's military power paled in comparison to that of the US.

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.

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.

Actually is was only by luck that islam appeared at a point where the Eastern Roman Empire and Persian Empire had fought theirselves to exhaustion, making little military power left to resist Islam.

In Kagan's view, America's extraordinary military power decisively shapes its approach to the world, just as Europe's relative weakness determines its outlook.