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Some Air-Sea Battle proponents propose tactical preemptive strikes on missile launchers, radars, command centers, and perhaps also air bases and submarine ports.
Over 600 missiles, already deployed on the mainland, are aimed at cities and military bases on the island.
In 2005, at the summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, Vladimir Putin pressed for the final declaration to include a demand for withdrawal of American bases from Central Asia.
This flexible (and, alas, fragile) architecture of multi-level negotiation can function only as long as it is oriented towards clear moral bases for negotiation, has sufficient democratic legitimacy, and is supported in national and local arenas of action.
"A modern sovereign state, first and foremost, bases itself on the recognition of individual rights and democracy," according to Wang Yi, a liberal scholar.
Murder in the ranks, starvation and suicides in distant army bases, run-away conscripts, even the spectre of soldiers selling out their fellow soldiers to Chechyn kidnappers, have become common in today's Russian military, which now sullenly sees itself as disgraced.
Hamas is in no position to repay Israel’s air and ground attacks in kind, whereas an Indian attack on Pakistani territory, even one targeting terrorist bases and training camps, would invite swift retaliation from the Pakistani army.
And, by retaining Afghan bases to carry out covert operations, Predator missions, and other airstrikes, the US would be able to unleash punitive power to prevent a Taliban takeover.
Haldane bases his analysis on the trend in the Gross Value Added (GVA) of the financial sector.
Income shifting and the resulting erosion of domestic tax bases pose serious challenges, and countries with territorial systems have adopted tough countermeasures to combat them.
Local-currency bond markets could help to develop domestic investor bases and mobilize domestic savings to support long-term investments.
The Soviet Union lost Egypt in 1972, and its naval bases in Syria were abandoned in 1989.
Now, Russia has signed strategic agreements with Iran and is reconstructing military bases in Syria in response to an appeal by President Bashar Al-Assad (who visited Moscow in a brazen bid for Kremlin support just after the Georgian war ended).
As part of the so-called “string of pearls” strategy, China is seeking to encircle South Asia by building a network of naval bases stretching across the Indian Ocean from Hong Kong to the coast of Yemen.
There was speculation that Sri Lanka might host one of those bases; but this may no longer be politically viable, following President Mahinda Rajapaksa’s surprise defeat in January’s snap presidential election.
In all aspects of life, we should insist on a scientific process that bases decisions on accumulated observations.
Governors and mayors have few incentives to broaden their tax bases and instead devote their energies to negotiating about their budget.
An analogous "all or nothing" procedure was used in the US in the 1980s to close unneeded military bases.
Even though the Pentagon itself wanted to close many of them and use the money elsewhere, no measure could be gotten through the Congress, because military bases qualify as "pork" - the favors for their constituents that help congressmen get re-elected -- and, according to old and sacred informal rules, no congressman will ever vote against pork in a colleague's district.
But a plan to close numerous bases passed by an overwhelming majority when the congressional leadership finally agreed to present a single list of bases to be closed; the list could only be voted up or down, without any possibility of amendments.
So, before the anti-terror campaign seeks other terrorist bases to destroy, it should eliminate terror in a place where the UN itself is ruling.
But while Japan and South Korea have remained close allies of the United States during the six decades since then, hosting US bases and sheltering under US nuclear protection, China and North Korea have drifted ever further apart.
China’s strategic gains from a successful military intervention would include not only control of what happens on the Korean Peninsula, where it presumably would be able to establish military bases, but also regional gratitude for having prevented a catastrophic war.
Pakistan’s War at HomeSINGAPORE – Last month, after years of indecision, Pakistan’s military launched a full-scale military operation in the North Waziristan Tribal Agency aimed at eliminating terrorist bases and ending the region’s lawlessness.
According to the US Energy Department, within this decade American oil imports from Africa will reach 770 millions barrels annually, as exploration intensifies throughout the Gulf of Guinea, and as the US brokers peace in war-ravaged oil-producing countries, such as Sudan and Angola, and establishes strategic bases to safeguard output.
The goal is to keep most of the force stationed at home in the US, with a network of lightly-manned bases abroad that can serve as forward operating locations during a crisis or war.
Rather than being miniature Americas, many of these bases will be operated in conjunction with or by the host nation.
Meanwhile, across the border in Afghanistan, US forces are experiencing frequent ambushes and rocket attacks upon their bases.
Pooling of infrastructure (bases and ports) and logistical assets (transport), including training facilities for common equipment, will generate big savings, as individual countries rationalize the long “logistical tails” of manpower and equipment that support armies in the field.
One need look no further than Israel, with its penchant for overreaction on security matters, or Iran, with its insistence on enriching uranium, to see what can happen when an isolated power bases its actions on a sense of existential vulnerability.
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