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This historical experience was good for reform capability.
But for that two-thirds equivalent to U.S. expenditure, the European states obtain a military capability which can be assessed, at most, at about 20% of American military power.
There can no longer be any reasonable doubt that Iran’s ambition is to obtain nuclear weapons capability.
It is precisely this ambition that sets Iran apart from North Korea: whereas North Korea seeks nuclear weapons capability in order to entrench its own isolation, Iran is aiming for regional dominance and more.
There is no guarantee that attempts to destroy Iran’s nuclear potential and thus of its capability for a nuclear breakout will succeed.
But the most common view of security and intelligence experts worldwide is that, while Iran may want the technical breakout capability to build a nuclear weapon that Japan now has, it is still a long way from building a usable atomic weapon, and has made no decision to do so.
France and Britain maintain this capability because they continue to have foreign-policy relevance.
Three years later, Operation Artemis, a comparable EU mission in the eastern province of Ituri, again demonstrated Europe’s resolve to use its military capability to underpin a long-term peace process.
Yet, taken together, the EU countries possess a considerable array of assets, including the military capability needed to conduct decisive operations.
Will the deal require freezing North Korea’s capability at current levels, or complete, verifiable, and irreversible denuclearization?
Conversely, the North’s growing nuclear capability provoked the US into quietly preparing for war while hoping to avert one.
For Khamenei, nuclear capability is not a goal but rather a means to force the West and its regional allies to recognize the regime’s strategic interests.
All NATO countries must understand that membership brings implicit and explicit responsibilities to ensure that their military forces have the capability to fight and win on the modern-day battlefield.
It will allow diplomacy, crisis management and an emerging European defense capability to be used hand in hand with more traditional policies, such as trade and development.
Cooperation with core partners must move beyond political dialogue to practical initiatives that focus on strengthening partners’ capability to conduct joint missions with NATO in the future.
Similarly, at least in terms of economic, if not military, capability, the United States and Japan seem to have begun a process of decline relative to China.
Confronted with the spread of missile technology, and unpredictable regimes and leaders, we owe it to our populations to complement our deterrence capabilities with an effective missile-defense capability.
On the question of Iran’s nuclear weapons capability, Americans and Europeans also fundamentally agree: it should be prevented.
A more practical problem is that Russia lacks the capability to destroy space-traveling ballistic missiles.
First, a government that possesses basic scientific knowhow and modern manufacturing capability, and is determined to develop a number of rudimentary nuclear weapons, will most likely succeed, sooner or later.
As General Mark Welsh, Commander of US Air Forces in Europe, told top officers and industry executives at a gathering last summer, “We need more intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance capability, and we need it now.”
The more familiar road leads to wasteful overlap and lower investment in key technologies, leaving wider gaps than ever in Europe’s defense capability.
It will actively work against Iran's acquisition of nuclear knowledge and energy, and may yet attempt to weaken Iran's military capability altogether.
This means not only ensuring that the international trade regime can survive without the US, but also developing a military capability that can increase the EU’s geopolitical credibility and shift the global balance of power.
More ominous, according to a confidential US intelligence report, North Korea has achieved the capability to miniaturize nuclear warheads, and may have as many as 60 bombs.
Indeed, Japan’s quest to re-establish its own military capability is a vote of limited confidence in its US ally.
No other country has the necessary combination of capability and outlook.
Each of the studies describes a part of a green economy, but none can capture the whole – not because they are deficient, but because it is simply beyond our capability.
This is partly a question of trans-Atlantic differences in the levels of defense spending, and therefore of military capability.
The US spends far more on defense than its European allies, and as a result its military capability is different in quality as well as in quantity.
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