Capability
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He lacks the
capability
to direct others and the cinematography was totally sick.
The best joke of all – that Bezos bought the Post by mistake through an errant one-click purchase (a
capability
patented by Amazon) – has a ring of truth to it.
Resistance to reform could for a time be justified, so long as: 1 firms in the state sector retained a profitable position in a region's economy; 2. the mobility of state employees remained low; and 3, the non-state sector was not strong enough in both financial terms and entrepreneurial
capability
to take over the vast state sector.
Furthermore, robotic surgery has the potential to progress beyond the scope of unaided human
capability.
So long as nuclear weapons remain, states can justify maintaining a minimum nuclear-deterrent
capability.
China’s drive for economic and political leadership in East Asia, and its increased military
capability
there, is inevitable.
In response to China’s
capability
to project power many hundreds of miles from its borders, the US (as I have suggested for the last 25 years) should develop a long-range bomber capable of penetrating sophisticated defenses and delivering great force.
Even as Indian leaders accept all of China’s assurances, they cannot afford to remain indifferent to China’s rising
capability
to create problems for India.
On the question of intention versus capability, former US President Ronald Reagan had the last word.
Far from moving toward disarmament, the intention seems to be to maintain and enhance every component of America’s current land, sea, and airborne nuclear
capability.
Many Palestinians view violence as a useful tool in the struggle for independence and do not want to destroy the
capability
to resort to arms in the future if Israel reneges on its roadmap commitment to end the occupation.
The net effect is a growing
capability
of China’s strategic missile forces and military space platforms.
Meanwhile, the US – the only power with the
capability
to offset China – seems to be retreating from its traditional role in Asia.
Few of Trump’s campaign comments can be described as insightful and fair, but he had a point when he suggested that Europe cannot rely on America to defend it if it remains unwilling to make a fair contribution to military
capability.
There was a lack of integrated emergency-response
capability
at the site and nationally.
But the gap between the economies of the Arab Middle East and Western Europe--in (non-oil sector) productivity, technological capability, and standards of living--is wider than it was a century ago, and vastly greater than at the start of the Industrial Age.
Although the United Kingdom is currently building two carriers of its own, the Royal Navy is years away from the
capability
to deliver instant airpower from the sea.
All of this disagreement raises doubts about the
capability
of the West to define a “long term, patient but firm” strategy to contain Russian President Vladimir Putin’s dangerous behavior.
US President Donald Trump’s administration has stated unequivocally that it will not tolerate a North Korean
capability
to threaten the mainland United States with nuclear weapons.
It is less important, for instance, to steal a copy of North Korea’s bomb designs than to know the morale and
capability
of its scientists.
Even so, Russia and China continue to take a much more lenient approach to Iran than Europe and the US have since the International Atomic Energy Agency’s report in November 2011 described in detail Iran’s activities in pursuing the
capability
to produce nuclear weapons.
Against this background, the US should have known that trying to compel Pakistan to limit its nuclear-weapons
capability
would fail.
A modest goal would be to reach an agreement to keep North Korea’s nuclear and missile program at current levels of
capability.
Adding substance – and striking symbolism – to the rhetoric, Obama and Gillard announced the creation of a training base in northern Australia for 2,500 US Marines, a significant new
capability
within easy reach of both South East Asia and the Indian Ocean.
Similarly, neither side wants to see Iran develop a nuclear-weapons
capability.
Governments should not concoct programs to lend directly, guarantee loans, or invest in renewable projects on the theory that the private sector somehow lacks this
capability.
Simply put, a technocratic focus on upgrading skills and operational capability, in the absence of improved governance of the security services, can be easily subverted by anti-reform coalitions, resulting in the continuation of regressive patterns of behavior.
Finally, a reputation for offensive
capability
and a declared policy that keeps open the means of retaliation can help to reinforce deterrence.
Military
capability
is also needed to meet the global responsibility to protect citizens at risk of genocide and other mass-atrocity crimes if no lesser option is available and if intervening will do more good than harm, as would have been the case in Rwanda in 1994.
As one MSB spokesperson put it recently, the agency’s limited resources are “not in any way on par with the
capability
of the aggressor.”
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