Sentences with phrase «other military powers»

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.

Not exact matches

Other defense companies such as Lockheed Martin and General Dynamics — which manufactures everything from tanks to nuclear - powered submarines — have also benefited amid talks of augmented military spend.

While the political legitimacy for such moves should come from the UN or other international bodies, the military power to enforce them must come from the United States.

He also pointed out that in addition to the military aspect of US operations in the country, other parts of the US government like the State Department and USAID are also active in reconciliation efforts, recovering water access, and rebuilding the power grids in destroyed towns and cities.

Speaking before the Senate Intelligence Committee alongside the heads of other US intelligence agencies, Wray said that to undermine the US's military, economic, cultural, and informational power across the globe, China was using methods relying on more than just its state institutions.

What has happened in the military is not that different from what has happened in other places of employment where men outnumber women and have more power.

China's worrisome military build - up may get most of the attention, but many other Asian countries have launched military modernization programs, moving from an emphasis on defending borders to the ability to project power externally.

«Since 1945,» he writes, «Americans have insisted on acquiring and maintaining military supremacy, a «preponderance of power» in the world rather than a balance of power with other nations.»

The super power military organizations are deadly locked into the fierce arms race against each other in the name of the security and survival.

The other case is the powers of the military organizations.

The transition from a superpower duopoly, in terms of military power, to a world monopoly, however, has had, among other effects during the 1990s, that of destabilising the fragile balance upon which the international multilateralism of the United Nations had been able to function, well or badly, during the 1960s and 1970s (following the «defrosting» and decolonisation, both the results of social, cultural, democratic and national struggle).

No nation will be allowed to surpass or even equal American military power, and indeed other nations are advised to limit or destroy any «weapons of mass destruction» they may have, and that includes Russia, China and India.

On the other hand, they serve the political, military and economic powers that be and operate as consultants to them as well as accepting invitations to generalize from scientific research to political and social philosophies — blinkered mandarins, speaking as if they were wise.

A grass - roots movement to abolish secret government, to bring the CIA and other illegal spying operations and private armies out of the closet of imperial power and into the light, to break the hold of the military - industrial complex, and to establish genuine public financing of elections may be at least theoretically conceivable.

Instead of behaving in a professional manner, our military invaded Iraq with far too small a force; failed to respond adequately when parts of the Iraqi Army (and Baathist Party) went underground; tolerated an orgy of looting and lawlessness throughout the country; disobeyed orders and ignored international obligations (including the obligation of an occupying power to protect the facilities and treasures of the occupied country — especially, in this case, Baghdad's National Museum and other archaeological sites of untold historic value); and incompetently fanned the flames of an insurgency against our occupation, committing numerous atrocities against unarmed Iraqi civilians.

It is easier to imagine him sitting on the edge of Moscow, and on the edge of Washington, and on the edge of Beijing and Johannesburg and Tel Aviv and Baghdad, and all other seats of military power, and weeping: «If you, even you, had only recognized on this day the things that make for peace!»

But the history of the voting privilege in the twentieth century shows that it takes the combined power of mass movements, economic pressures, and the Federal Government with its military force to give even a relative assurance that this requirement of justice will be realized.3 It seems, therefore, that when we move from the perspective of love to concrete issues of social strategy and political power, justice is accomplished by a confluence of historical forces and humane considerations which indeed may be enforced by love, but which must have other sources.

He joined an opposition organization (primarily made up of aristocratic and military conservatives) that planned to arrest Hitler and thereby transfer power to others in an orderly, Lutheran way.

The mega - mediacompanies are centres of power that are at the same time linked into other circuits of power, such as the financial institutions, the military establishments, and the political elite.

Military leaders fought against each other in their lust for power.

And this fallacious idea of the need to «balance» each other in destructive power has come to be regarded as self - evident to the people of America — because of what President Dwight Eisenhower in his last message to the American people called the «military - industrial complex» and what Alva Myrdal in her book The Game of Disarmament calls the «arms race within the arms race.

Other Prime Ministerial powers include those to recommend the appointment of key figures, including peers, religious leaders, top judges and military heads as well as the chairs of public corporations such as the BBC.

Such a static and retrogressive view of what are essentially peoples» movements fuelled by genuine concerns of power devolution and resource control, and accentuated by wide spread human rights abuses by military and para-military forces in the province, is indicative of the security establishment's pre-eminence in decision - making with regards to this and other issues.

It depends upon the long - range capabilities of the U.S. Navy and Air Force to overcome the mines, submarines, anti-ship missiles and other advanced technology designed to keep the U.S. military out of «exclusion zones» established by potentially hostile powers.

Having seized power through the electoral college used to elect the President of the United States, Donald Trump now intends to redeploy federal power away from civilian to military expenditures, to dismantle health care and other forms of income support, and to advance a neoliberal environment fostering business activity and investment.

A more holistic approach — one capable of ending sexism and sexual violence within military practices — would be to acknowledge the values intrinsic in militarism that condone and promote an idea of hypermasculinity, which is determined upon one's ability to express power through the devaluation of others by committing acts of violence.

@AzorAhai True, but I was thinking about all the other various powers of the Presidency (commanding the military, talking with foreign leaders, issuing executive orders, interim cabinet appointments, etc).

Other logistics, including three motorcycles, one power generating set, a tool box, a pair of Camouflage, one military - type belt and one Boko Haram flag were also captured from the routed insurgents by the troops.

Greens call for an end to the Bush - Obama post-9 / 11 decade of wars without end, bloated military budgets, skyrocketing hate crimes against Muslims in the US, torture and other abuses of power

James Madison advocated for the ratification of the Constitution in The Federalist and at the Virginia ratifying convention upon a narrow construction of the clause, asserting that spending must be at least tangentially tied to one of the other specifically enumerated powers, such as regulating interstate or foreign commerce, or providing for the military, as the General Welfare Clause is not a specific grant of power, but a statement of purpose qualifying the power to tax.

He brings firsthand experience to foreign affairs and defense issues from his service as an Army colonel — experience that allows him to speak frankly about the limits of military power and possible cuts to defense without fears of being labeled «soft on terror» or other such nonsense, which, in our increasingly veteran - light Congress, others try to insulate themselves against.

«These attacks have grown in magnitude and they include attacks on security services, we have incidents where military officers have been lynched by mobs, we have instances where these vigilante groups calling themselves variously; Invisible forces, Delta forces, etc. invade police stations, break into cells and release suspects because they claim the NPP members are immune to any form of arrest in other words, they are living above the law because they happen to be members of a party living in power», he said.

There is an ongoing and active civil war in Syria that will not end until there is either a formal diplomatic partition of Syria between the factions that currently control territory there, or Assad (or some other faction) uses military power to control the entire country.

The report is replete with examples of the social controversies involving science and technology at that time - the biological and environmental effects of nuclear weapons testing, DDT and other dioxins, the use of defoliants and herbicides by the U.S. military in Vietnam, the safety of nuclear power plants, the ban on fetal research, a moratorium on recombinant DNA research, the need for human subject protections and informed consent in genetics research, the misuse of psychology as a tool for torture, the implications of national security controls on science; misconduct in science, and the role of and protections for whistleblowers - many of which continue to resonate in the science and society relationship of today.

The company has already supplied the U.S. military and outdoor enthusiasts with portable field chargers, largely for communication and other small electronic devices powered by such cells.

Boyden stresses the significance of military power; civilisations develop in parallel with the advance of military innovation, each propelling the other towards some sort of domination, whether it is of the local environment, other people or the globe.

The G - Wagen uses a standard 2.9 l OM 612 turbo - diesel engine, which can develop 156hp / 115kW, with five - speed automatic gearbox, (other commercial versions use 5.5 l petrol V8 (500hp) power units and there is a range of engines which could be used in the military version).

The Swiss government is not deploying the Swiss military around the globe to fight terrorism, to spread democracy, to advance its own power, or other such murderous government programs.

Three of them are reserved for military action and the other three are for resources and «Power Discs.»

Today, amid an anemic economy and joblessness far worse than official government figures admit, President Obama balks at approving the Keystone XL pipeline, cancels leasing and drilling on federal lands, tells our budget - sequestered military to buy $ 26 to $ 67 - per - gallon ship and jet fuel, punishes refineries for not buying cellulosic ethanol that doesn't exist, and happily lets EPA shut down coal - fired power plants and kill countless thousands of mining, utility and other jobs.

Other examples of the military embracing Mr. Obama's climate goals include the construction of a massive solar power project at Fort Benning, Georgia, and the Navy's move toward a «green fleet» that is far less reliant on fossil fuels.

Rights advocates say grassroots leaders often represent a threat to rural power structures consisting of landowners and other commercial interests, judges, military and police.

Other types of Power of Attorneys: Durable Power of Attorney, Springing Power of Attorney, General Power of Attorney, Limited Power of Attorney, Military Power of Attorney, Mental Health Care Power of Attorney, Medical Power of Attorney

If the question of whether use of torture in military interrogations of terrorist suspects were a law school exam question, I would bet that Yoo would have gotten extra points for coming up with the «self - defense» argument, or for arguing that executive power during a time of war trumps other considerations.

A military judge ruled that five CIA - held detainees representing themselves pro se are entitled to use of a laptop with at least 12 hours of battery power to review documents produced in their case, but not to other 21st century accoutrements of «technologically advanced law firms» such as PowerPoint, scanners, a DVD writer and Internet access, reports The Miami Herald.

This Military Power of Attorney will allow such powers as: taking possession and accepting delivery of personal property, managing housing and real estate transactions, using and operating motor vehicles in the service member's name, performing banking transactions, preparing and filing the service member's taxes, and many other available authorities.

Such seemingly conflicting directions suggest that Parliament and the ECtHR are adopting differing positions, thereby further confusing the military courts, COs and any other parties so concerned with the invocation of COs» summary powers.

But it was an attack on a legitimate military target and defensible under Just War Theory, an attack intended to save lives by deterring other major powers from beginning conflicts of their own.

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Starting from the bottom: with regard to Argentina — there is no mention of the military junta in the mid-70s, nor the 30,000 (at the least) torture and killed, nor of the mothers and grandmothers walking for 20 or more years in silence protesting the killings in a Bueno Aires plaza, nor is there is mention of the billions of dollars of US military aircraft and other weapons (as well torturing equipment for sending high to low charges of electricity through various parts of the body (private parts though preferred, as they say), but sold to the junta in power which weighs heavily in the total external debt, nor of the wholesale and retail sale of government agencies or corporations, and of the rights of water (in the 1990s), and the default of the government on various debts and contracts: 40 or more cases before the courts and ICSID — seems the sanctity of the contract and personalty of the international organization is a barrier to putting an end these very crooked and immoral business transactions, etc..