Sentences with phrase «on military»

But Japan still perceives North Korea and Russia as a military threat, and is continuing to spend more on military research.

The U.S. should rethink its overemphasis on military approaches, and Europe should honor its unmet commitments of aid to this region, but other nations — including the wealthy countries of the Middle East and new donors such as India and China — can also help turn the tide.

Kate Ravilious's article «Patterns of war» is correct to highlight the influence of Frederick Lanchester's ideas on military thinking (31...

He argues that because the technological gap between advanced conventional boats and nuclear boats is slowly but surely closing (another unsubstantiated statement), with the former costing half as much, then the days of the nuclear submarine are numbered and it will be allowed to wither on the military vine.

Then I'll catch an hour of sleep before boarding a 2 a.m. flight on a military cargo jet back to New Zealand — December 21, last flight before Christmas.

In one study, participants completed a measure of spatial intelligence that was modeled after items on military aptitude tests.

Just what sort of role is there for an organisation that aimed to win wars, when the US defence department spends more than the entire GDP of many countries on military contracting?

Yet Pakistan spends 8 per cent of its GNP on military activities (the corresponding figure for the US is 6.5 per cent).

«It was far too focused on military applications,» he says.

On the military front, the Army is testing an armor - piercing bullet called a kinetic energy penetrator for use by ground - attack jets and armored vehicles, while the Navy evaluates lightweight amorphous - alloy fragmentation bombs.

But Richard Garwin, a leading expert on military technology and a critical figure in the development of the hydrogen bomb, says that would only incite a space arms race that would ultimately make our satellites more vulnerable.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R — KY) and Senator Chuck Schumer (NY), the Senate's top Democrat, said the two parties — and the White House — have agreed to smash through caps on military and domestic spending imposed by a 2011 law designed to reduce the nation's long - term debt.

The switcheroo is primarily the result of a landmark budget deal that Congress reached last week to smash through mandated limits on military and civilian spending for the next 2 years.

Starting in 2001, she added a sideline on military applications, helping found the Institute for Soldier Nanotechnologies at MIT, focusing on technology that protects soldiers from harm and heals their wounds.

The stress and suffering of combat are known to leave a lasting impact on military veterans, in some cases triggering post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).

Johnson and his team used public data on military fatalities from the site icasualties.org, terrorism attacks from the Memorial Institute for the Prevention of Terrorism databases and suicide bombing data from the Chicago Project on Security and Terrorism.

«The United States is still spending billions of dollars on the military base of Diego Garcia.

This special «War Issue» contained much on military theory, organization and resources, but apart from a scattering of images little -LSB-...]

All that's gold does not glitter, thanks to new work by UC Irvine scientists that could reduce glare from solar panels and electronic displays and dull dangerous glints on military weapons.

Tops performs autopsies on people who die suspiciously, including members of the military, Department of Defense contractors, and civilians who die while on military property.

Igor Sutyagin, who studied physics and history, was arrested in October 1999 on charges of espionage related to a study he conducted on military - civilian relations in Russia.

During a Thursday budget hearing, for instance, House Appropriator Rep. Ken Calvert (R - CA) told Defense Secretary James Mattis, «Most if not all of us agree that the base on defense must go up... but the funding on military can not be obtained on the back of nondefense discretionary spending.

The Foreign Secretary William Hague has said there should be no «regrets or recrimination» after the government lost a vote on military action against Syria.

Troops of 26 and 28 Task Force Brigades, on Tuesday repelled an early morning attack by fleeing Boko Haram terrorists on military locations at Pulka and Bitta in the fringes of Sambisa forest.

The ministers, together with journalists and security personnel, arrived at the Tamale Airport on a military helicopter from Bimbilla after visiting the...

Niagara Gear, on Military Road, manufactures gear parts for various industries, including the automotive, aerospace, medical and energy industries.

He attended law school on a military deferment.

In the space of barely 24 hours on Monday August 8, 2016 three soldiers were again killed in an attack on a military checkpoint at Tombi waterside in Nembe, Bayelsa State.

«However, a survey of Conservative MPs found that if the Prime Minister were to return to the Commons he might be able to carry a vote on military action.

The attacks on the military came on the heels of the suicide attacks on Yola and Kano respectively.

A group, the «Stand Up for Nigeria» (SUN) has condemned increasing attacks on military personnel by armed groups, urging Nigerians to rise in unison in condemning the attacks on the Army in the strongest terms possible.

«David Cameron today fired one of his top policy advisers for failing to vote for the government in last week's vote on military intervention in Syria.

Experts on the military and federal budget have differing viewpoints.

Pereotubo said rather than embark on Military drill, Buhari should employ the strategy of negotiation as a means of resolving agitations.

Maj. Gen. Patrick Murphy, the adjutant general of New York, landed in Kuwait on Friday to visit hundreds of soldiers from New York and the Capital Region on military duty.

[210][211] Rubio's stance on military, foreign policy and national security issues — such as his support for arming the Syrian rebels and for the NSA — alienated some libertarian - oriented Tea Party activists.

«In fact, the Ministry, on several occasions, had to call press conferences to provide details of budgetary spending on the military, to show, against the background of limited resources and other urgent national priorities, that it was doing its best on funding security.

It will be followed by a Commons debate and a vote on the military intervention.

Niagara Falls, NY (WBEN)- Emergency and hazmat crews have finished cleaning up the tanker that struck a light pole in the Wegmans parking lot on Monday night on Military Road in Niagara Falls.

We have a former solicitor, Des Browne, deciding on military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Defence Minister, Dominic Nitiwul, is demanding that former President John Dramani Mahama vacates his residence reportedly sited on a military land.

Key Senate Committee Passes Senator Gillibrand's Legislation Requiring Mental Health Professional on Military Review Board

Instead, it has encouraged the President to fall back on military tactics, which are antithetical to democracy and the result is resistance from the other arms of government and critical stakeholders.

The measures include reinstating the federal ban on military - style weapons that expired in 2004, however it will be up to Congress to decide on that and the majority of the other proposals.

The Executive Secretary of Centre for Crisis Communication (CCC), Air Commodore Anas recently disclosed that there is nothing wrong in imposing targets on the military but due to the asymmetric warfare which Boko Haram is prosecuting against civilian «soft targets» the December deadline is unrealistic.

Rhodes also said the United States spends more on its military «then the next seven nations combined» and that it should focus more on diplomacy and reforming military spending so that more money can be used on education.

Time Warner Cable News: Candidate for governor suggests money focused on military spending be diverted elsewhere

On 8 October 2001, he was the first MP in the Commons to publicly call for a vote on any military action in Afghanistan.

The Town of Tonawanda under Highway Superintendent Tom Jones and his predecessor Bill Swanson have been super about loaning the county equipment in return for storage space at our facility on Military Road.

One of the thing we can do is put these solar panels in and a solar panel factory out on a military base.»