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The Kremlin deployed missile-defense systems – including the state-of-the-art SA-21 Growler – in Syria about six months ago, claiming that Assad’s air bases were now safe from American cruise missiles.
If the trend is extrapolated, the home bases of Europe’s largest companies will account, on average, for less than half of their European revenue, and less than a third of their global revenue, before the end of this decade.
Put simply, the numbers show a growing gap of interests between these so-called “champions” and their national home bases.
Two DNA sequences generated at random must be 25% identical, by virtue of the fact that DNA is a sequence of only four bases.
Could they expect to see US troops and bases along the Chinese border on the Yalu River, or perhaps a string of listening posts to gather intelligence?
Iran is now permitting Russian long-range bombers to using one of its air bases to strike Syria, complicating Obama’s already-strenuous effort to reach an understanding with Russian President Vladimir Putin on ending the civil war.
Yet the United Nations estimates that more than 7,000 noncombatants were killed in the final months of the war as government forces overran Tamil Tiger bases.
Against this background, it seems likely that ISIS, from its scattered bases in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula, Iraq, Libya, and Yemen, will be able to continue planning and executing terrorist attacks in the Middle East and beyond.
The fund has already spent more than €650 million ($835 million), for example, on modernizing Poland’s air, naval, and logistical bases.
It now uses a broad range of hard and soft power, some incommensurate to that of the EU – for instance, the military bases that it has managed to secure in each of the six states.
Moreover, Egypt has given Russia access to air bases to deploy special forces in Libya in support of Khalifa Haftar, the warlord whom Putin is backing.
Saudi Arabia’s Iraq DilemmaSaudi Arabia broke ranks with the Arab world’s opposition to military action against Iraq when Foreign Minister Saud al-Faisal announced that the kingdom would allow the use of its military bases if the UN sanctions an attack on Iraq.
Ever since the terrorist attacks on New York and Washington last year, the regime—once central to American strategic interests in the region, has been made to feel dispensable by the US, which drops strong hints that there are alternatives to Saudi military bases, even to Saudi oil.
That means that tomorrow it could bid for contracts to build missile bases on the coast of the People’s Republic of China.
This threat, together with terrorist attacks in Kenya, Tanzania, Tunisia, and Morocco, has prompted the Bush administration to install military bases in the region.
More capital should flow to countries with younger populations – with their growing manufacturing bases and consumer markets – to support investment and employment growth; and more labor should flow to countries with aging populations, to fill gaps in the workforce.
If the new leadership bases its decision-making on a national consensus – and under a governance framework that ensures transparency, disclosure, and accountability – the curse will be cast off.
But Germany has also lost much, including the many US troops who will now reportedly be re-deployed to bases in other countries.
No surprise, then, that large developing countries with substantial industrial bases – such as South Africa, India, and Brazil – are leading the counterattack.
Denied their Iraqi and Afghan bases by Western intervention, al-Qaeda militants are now flocking into Syria from Libya and Iraq, and are probably responsible for some of the recent terrorist atrocities in Aleppo and Homs.
In exchange for more bilateral and multilateral financing, Russia now faces growing US military bases on its southern flank in Central Asia and the Caucasus, while NATO is poised to expand right up to our Western border.
Both men are former first secretaries of the Communist Youth League, one of Hu’s major power bases.
It is no secret that US President Barack Obama wants to maintain an American military presence in the country – a reversal of his declaration in 2009 that the US sought no military bases there.
Indeed, for several months, the US has been involved in painstaking negotiations with the Afghan government to conclude a bilateral security agreement that would enable the US to maintain bases in Afghanistan virtually indefinitely.
Nonetheless, there is strong bipartisan support in the US for maintaining military bases in Afghanistan, as a means of projecting hard power, and the increasingly charged confrontation between the US and Russia over Ukraine has boosted that support considerably.
In fact, the risk of becoming locked in a protracted, low-intensity war against militancy and warlordism is likely to outweigh any geopolitical advantages that the US would gain from military bases in the country.
Moreover, it continues to build its “ string of pearls” of military bases at every key point on maritime transportation routes along the “arc of instability” from the Middle East to China’s coast.
Turkey's refusal to grant the Americans access to military bases on its territory effectively ruled out a northern front in the war.
China’s broad claims to the South China Sea and its creation of military bases there are viewed throughout the region as a provocation.
As China develops advanced precision weapons to create a so-called anti-access/area-denial capability, the US must consider how to respond to the growing vulnerability of its bases and naval forces in the region.
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