Sentences with phrase «military threats of»

Henry Mayr - Harting's chapter on the «age of conversion» in the West (the former «Dark Ages») is particularly clear and well - stated, and Jeremy Jons» essay, «Christianity and Islam,» is a useful orientation to the theological challenge of Islam as well as to the more familiar political and military threats of Muslims to the late - antique and medieval West.

I was just trying to put in perspective the military threat of each country.

Not exact matches

In March, 2011, the President signed an executive order that would «create a formal system of indefinite detention for those held at the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, who continue to pose a significant threat to national security,» commented The Washington Post.

The game of dominating the world's resources, nation - states and alliances is like a combination of Go and chess, with the threat of military conquest or defeat always hovering over the statecraft and financial game.

Vietnam is deploying a 10,000 - member military cyber warfare unit to combat what the government sees as a growing threat of «wrongful views» proliferating on the internet, according to local media.

The Kurdish - Arab town is under threat of a Turkish military operation that has already complicated the war in Syria.

One report deals with the performance of the government and military during the conflict, dubbed Operation Protective Edge in Israel, and in the lead - up to it in general, with special attention paid to Hamas tunnels and Israel's lax preparations for dealing with their threat.

At the same time, we're doing enforcement activity in our remote [exclusive economic zones] to make sure that there's not illegal fishing activity taking place, and we were not seeing that activity, but it was peeling off a lot of our resources toward what I would consider a relatively benign threat, and then we're providing other resources to do exercises with the military in the remote parts of the world but with really no strategic outcome that I could discern where the Coast Guard was providing a unique capability.

Welcome to the new reality of commercial shipping off the east African coast, where the threat of piracy and thin military protection has forced vessels to turn to mercenaries for help.

As for the specific border crossing tunnels targeted by the Israeli military during the campaign: While the cabinet was not briefed on them until the operation was already underway, the IDF, Shin Bet and other security services were aware of them and the threat posed by them, she said.

The decision has been ascribed to some combination of the persuasive powers of the president - elect, about $ 7 million in tax breaks from the state of Indiana, and implicit threats to the valuable business Carrier's parent company United Technologies, a major military contractor, conducts with the federal government.

However, when Bitcoin suddenly shot up on Thursday, the online chatter was mostly about the White House's military threats against Russia in Syria, its sanctions on Russia and its tariffs on China, with people speculating that Russians and Chinese might be buying into Bitcoin to quietly get their money out of those countries.

The U.S. military and NATO are seeking to boost their ability to quickly respond to emerging threats by pre-positioning supplies and equipment across Europe, while upgrading airfields, ranges and other infrastructure after years of neglect.

However, according to Military Times, about 5 % of respondents complained that groups like Black Lives Matter were not included among the choices for threats to national security.

Nearly one - third of US troops polled by Military Times said they saw white nationalism as a threat to national security, more so than hotspots like Syria or Afghanistan.

He has since sought to dial back threats of military action, saying missile strikes into Syria may not happen soon.

«Without this type of political support, military aid, and supportive push from a GOP Congress in the 1990s, it might have become a failed nation and even greater «narco - state» threat to the U.S.»

If the summit fails to conclude in an agreement, that could be seen as a failure of diplomacy and, in turn, may heighten the threat of military action.

The military needed a faster and more efficient reporting scheme for incidents and potential threats and would need to increase the political education of troops, the minister said.

Cyber attacks not only compromise the personal information and sensitive data of consumers, but pose tremendous threats to businesses, governments and militaries.

NATO allies believe the alliance needs to respond to what the West says is the Kremlin's mix of not just the conventional military threat but covert and cyber warfare.

During a trip to Moscow last month by Pakistan's foreign minister, Khawaja Asif, the two countries announced plans to establish a commission on military cooperation to combat the threat of IS in the region.

The U.S. military flew two strategic bombers over the Korean peninsula in a show of force late on Tuesday, as President Donald Trump met with top defense officials to discuss how to respond to any threat from North Korea.

Participants were asked to rank their level of anxiety (or lack thereof) on subjects such as their country's current political leadership, economy, health care, cost of living, and their perceived level of threat from terrorism and military hostilities.

As a policy matter moreover, we reject the use of military force where well - established law enforcement authorities in this country provide the best means for incapacitating a terrorist threat.»

«With the threat environment unlikely to abate per a host of global tensions spanning China, the Mideast, North Korea, and Russia, we do not foresee any imminent fall - off in US military budgets,» wrote Morgan Stanley analysts led by Rajeev Lalwani.

Additionally, the memo says, Colombia needs a political ambassador with a «wider world view who can use the Colombia assistance we rendered to push [its government] to aid us with training, experience - sharing and the posting of seasoned policy and military officers with other nations (e.g. Mexico, Afghanistan) facing similar narco - terrorism threats.»

Israel's state comptroller took military and political leaders to task for their failure to prepare adequately for the threat of attack tunnels ahead of the 2014 war with Hamas in the Gaza Strip, in a pair of long - awaited, highly critical reports published on Tuesday.

Contrary to Trump's threat of fire and fury, Bannon said: «There's no military solution [to North Korea's nuclear threats], forget it.

Its staunch advocacy of free speech around the world - nothing other than direct personal threats are barred from Twitter - has helped it become an important avenue through which news and viewpoints are shared, from the first inklings of the U.S. military assault on Osama bin Laden's compound to Obama's tweeting «Four more years» when he won re-election.

If one takes a few minutes to really think about the medium that we accept as money today, fiat currencies made out of cotton fiber backed by nothing except militaries, murder, death, and threats of murder and death, then one should easily conclude that fiat currencies literally have no intrinsic worth.

Abe campaigned on the idea that the threat from North Korea requires leaders to remove any doubt over the legitimacy of Japan's military.

Tweeter in Chief: Despite his pronouncements that he would never publicly telegraph military plans, President Trump's threats of military action against Syria may have already triggered a response from adversaries.

Trump appeared to walk back his threats of military action against Syria, tweeting that an attack could happen «very soon» or «not so soon at all.»

In the past, military conflicts in the Middle East and the attendant threat of supply disruptions would send oil prices soaring.

The Pentagon is moving to halt the sale of phones made by Huawei Technologies Co. and ZTE Corp. in retail outlets on U.S. military bases around the world, citing potential security threats they say the devices could pose.

According to the report, the military's Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program ran from 2002 - 2012 and was a sort of «pet project» for then - Senate majority leader Harry Reid.

At the moment, I would much rather see the U.S. military intervene in Israel and Palestine to provide security for both peoples and the possibility of building a democratic and peaceful Palestinian state than engage in a highly personalized invasion of an «evil» country yet to be proven a threat to anyone.

This placing of their very lives in the hands of a strategic elite was like the trust that always had to be granted by democracies to their military leaders, such as in ancient Athens or pre-1950s America; it was unlike it in the sheer immediacy of the new sort of death - threat and the practical impossibility of evading it.

Well, we should remain open to the idea that the profit - motive at work within the military - industrial establishment to some degree caused a) too many weapons to be built, and b) exaggeration of the communist threat, so that a) and b) together contributed to a greater aggressiveness of our military leaders.

One could go on enumerating undemocratic elements in our society — the vast disparity in incomes and living conditions, the myth of equal opportunity for education and employment, the regimentation and militarization of the public mind, the threat to democracy which would ensue if a system of compulsory peacetime military training should be adopted.

We should be gullible indeed if we supposed that mere military victory would end the powerful threat of the faith which is proposed as a successor to the religion of the West.

on Premier's News Hour, he said: «The way in which we conduct any military action in Iraq, I think, should be on a humanitarian basis to protect people, not on the basis of fear and threat to the UK.»

I am glad we have a military force of ready trained killers to foreign threats, but those who have trained, as a career choice, to mindlessly take orders and kill, kill, kill are not the ones I want to hear from about Christ or any other messenger of peace, tolerance and salvation.

People would be more secure from real threats if allowed to keep a lot more of the money now squandered on a bloated military.

If South American nations can overcome these obstacles, this should be possible in parts of the world where domination has thus far been chiefly economic, with much less threat of overt military intervention.

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.

i could give a rats ass about religion... obama has proven to be anti american as well as the largest national security threat to our great country and the brave american men and women who serve in the military providing all of us freedom.

Many of them do not understand that the threat of catastrophic judgment is brought on by their nation as nation and by its vested interests: neglect of the least privileged in this country and beyond, economic exploitation, popular media saturated in violence, the support of repressive client regimes, military buildup and the corporate destruction of the environment.

Disagreements will arise over the seriousness of particular threats, whether «just cause» and «last resort» are present for the use of military force, the utility of nonviolent and persuasive methods, whether a missile defense system (required by the strategy paper) is itself defensible practically and morally, and whether the U.S. should make interventionary decisions unilaterally or with international consent and support.