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With America's planned defense budget increases, the trans-Atlantic gap in military capability will become a chasm.
Even if they were, collectively, to match America's defense spending, they could not match US defense capability unless they combined their defense spending in a single budget.
The second, more important problem, is that (for a variety of reasons) Europeans do not set as high a value as the US on purely military capability.
International negotiations might produce an outcome that would leave Iran sufficiently short of a nuclear-weapons capability that its neighbors would not feel the need to attack it or develop such weapons of their own.
Iran’s bitterest regional enemy, Saudi Arabia, would move rapidly toward a nuclear capability, using abundant petrodollars and Pakistani knowhow.
The almost inevitable fall of Iran’s closest ally in the region, the Baath regime in Syria, only adds to the regime’s paranoid anxieties – and makes developing a nuclear capability seem all the more necessary for its survival.
This raises the practical question of what Iran’s current bomb-making capability is.
In 2008, the United States and India agreed to a civil nuclear deal that would allow India to expand its nuclear-power capability.
He challenged his colleagues to develop the capability to manipulate and control things on that scale.
That is why so many deep-pocketed governments – and some that are not so rich – are investing heavily in the technology and skills needed to enhance this capability.
As this technology improves, the systems that it enables will begin to match or exceed the capability of human workers in many routine job categories – a group that includes many workers with college degrees or other significant training.
Poor people are locked into a low-level asset (or capability) trap.
More than 40 countries now have some sort of military-intelligence cyber capability, and with the proliferation of offensive cyber capabilities, inadvertent escalation will become increasingly likely.
For Europeans, the NIE has not removed, but rather confirmed, the concerns that in 2003 prompted the EU-3 (Britain, France, and Germany) – namely, that Iran’s nuclear program could eventually give it a military nuclear capability, and that even before that point, it might trigger regional nuclear proliferation.
How is peace fostered if the elimination or dramatic diminution of Hamas’s capability leaves Gaza in the hands of even more militant groups, and gives Islamists throughout the region another recruitment tool?
The Pentagon has flaunted its capability to demolish China’s artificial islands, whose creation Chinese President Xi Jinping has cited as one of his key accomplishments.
Now, virtually anyone can enter an Internet café and enjoy a capability that was once available only to governments, multinational corporations, and a few individuals or organizations with large budgets.
Based on that doubt, France – a nuclear power since 1960 – withdrew in 1966 from the Alliance’s permanent centralized military command in order to assert its own deterrent capability.
But Iran’s leaders remain skeptical of either scenario, despite America’s official position that “all options are on the table” to prevent Iran from developing nuclear weapons capability.
In August, the reactor aboard India’s first indigenously built nuclear submarine, INS Arihant, was activated, bringing the country one step closer to realizing its long-sought goal of a “nuclear triad” – the capability to launch nuclear weapons from land, air, and sea.
The dramatic build-up of China’s military (especially naval) capability is no more than can be expected of a hugely trade-dependent regional superpower.
Using a flatter trajectory could provide Kim Jong-un’s regime with the capability of hitting the east coast of the United States.
Although it has not yet demonstrated a re-entry vehicle capable of surviving atmospheric friction, North Korea announced that it has mastered nuclear strike capability and become a full-fledged nuclear state.
The US should reinforce its deterrent and defense capability through its alliances with South Korea and Japan.
The real space station is a micro-gravity research laboratory with no capability to launch trips to the moon or beyond.
Thus, whereas North Korea’s announcement of its nuclear capability strongly condemned Japan and the US, it did not mention China, Russia, and South Korea, which had been more conciliatory during the six-party talks.
How can China build a legitimate defensive military capability that a great power needs and deserves without worrying its neighbors and the US that it aims to seize disputed territory and aspires to strategic hegemony in Asia?
What supporters of encryption recognize is that “if American companies maintain the ability to unlock their customers’ data and devices on request, governments other than the United States will demand the same access, and will also be emboldened to demand the same capability from their native companies.”
How do we manage our relationship with Iran, which may – or may not – wish to develop a military nuclear capability as well as civil nuclear power?
When a senior defense expert recently testified before a US Congressional commission on China's military capability, he detailed the extraordinarily robust weapons program the People's Liberation Army (PLA) has been pursuing.
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