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Unlike large-scale
conventional
power plants, solar installations can be built in months; in addition to being cost-effective, they provide a quick means of responding to growing global demand.
However, in the case of Kashmir, the asymmetric conflict currently fought by proxies and terrorist groups might not degenerate into all-out war precisely because India and Pakistan have mutual nuclear deterrence.Indeed, such asymmetric conflicts through proxies have become the new
conventional
way that states avoid the price of a general war.
Thus, for example, the
conventional
war in Kosovo lasted for two months, only to usher in a six-year asymmetric conflict.
Security assurances should also comprise confidence-building measures, along with
conventional
and nuclear arms control and disarmament.
That means that we must think about how to broaden the application of our commitments to reciprocal transparency to all military forces in Europe – including
conventional
and nuclear forces and missile-defense installations.
The time is ripe to explore again limitations on
conventional
forces, and to adjust them to current rather than past needs.
The
conventional
wisdom is that the United States government would not have gone after JPM had these setbacks and errors become salient during the financial crisis.
Israel UnboundTEL AVIV – Israel’s persistent occupation of Palestinian lands is irreparably damaging its international standing – or so the
conventional
wisdom goes.
In my book New Horizons of Muslim Diaspora in North America and Europe, I argue against the
conventional
wisdom that migrants and refugees are a threat to the Middle East’s security and development.
Yet, at the same time, Russia has repeatedly called for a new debate on
conventional
arms control in Europe.
Re-launching
conventional
arms control should be based on a principle that was at the heart of Brandt’s Ostpolitik: security in Europe must not be framed as a permanently adversarial process.
The
conventional
wisdom is that it is politically impossible in the US to increase the gas tax.
Anxiety over China’s
conventional
military superiority probably motivated, at least partly, Russia’s 2009 announcement of a new military doctrine explicitly reserving the right to first use of nuclear weapons – a stance that resembles America’s Cold War force posture, aimed at deterring superior
conventional
Soviet forces in Europe.
They have imbued reform efforts with a degree of urgency that has had a far-reaching impact; indeed,
conventional
GDP data do not reflect the scale of the transformation that they are driving.
Moreover, physics begins with everyday phenomena requiring few new words (as opposed to
conventional
ninth-grade biology): motion, velocity, acceleration, falling objects, a sense of gravity as a force, and some new concepts, e.g.
Opinion polls indicate that there will be a second-round run-off between Le Pen and either Sarkozy or Juppé, which means that those on the left will have to choose a
conventional
right-wing candidate if they want to beat Le Pen.
Yet it is precisely on this issue that the
conventional
wisdom breaks down.
The result is what General Sir Rupert Smith, a former British commander in Northern Ireland and the Balkans, called “war among the people” – a kind of struggle that is rarely decided on
conventional
battlefields by traditional armies.
In hybrid warfare,
conventional
and unconventional forces, combatants and civilians, physical destruction and information manipulation become thoroughly intertwined.
In Lebanon in 2006, Hezbollah fought Israel through well-trained cells that combined propaganda,
conventional
military tactics, and rockets launched from densely populated civilian areas, achieving what many in the region considered a political victory.
This kind of warfare emerged largely in response to America’s overwhelming
conventional
military advantage after the Soviet Union’s collapse, underscored by its victory in the 1991 Iraq War, with only 148 American casualties, and its intervention in the 1999 conflict in Kosovo, in which no American lives were lost.
For their part, terrorist groups, recognizing that they cannot defeat a
conventional
military in a direct war, attempt to use governments’ own power against them.
The US, for its part, must balance continued support for its
conventional
military forces, which remain an important deterrent in Asia and Europe, with investment in a broad portfolio of alternative capabilities that conflicts in the Middle East require.
The third message is that if the existing nuclear powers sincerely want to prevent others from joining their club, they cannot keep justifying the possession of nuclear weapons as a means of protection for themselves or their allies against other weapons of mass destruction, especially biological weapons, or
conventional
weapons.
Indeed, the single most difficult issue inhibiting serious movement toward disarmament – certainly in the case of Pakistan versus India, and Russia and China versus the US – are
conventional
arms imbalances, and ways of addressing them must rise to the top of the policy agenda.
Meanwhile, China and India are steadily increasing the size of their nuclear arsenals, and Pakistan is doing so even faster, even spelling out plans to combine battlefield nukes with
conventional
weapons.
The Trouble with Libertarian PaternalismCHICAGO – There are many arguments against government paternalism: apart from limiting individual choice (for example, the choice to remain uninsured in the current health-care debate in the United States) and preventing individuals from learning, history suggests time and again that the
conventional
wisdom prevalent in society is wrong.
And, since governments typically try to enforce the
conventional
wisdom, the consequences could be disastrous, because they are magnified by the state’s coordinating – and coercive – power.
But they proved far from safe, despite the prior
conventional
wisdom.
The
conventional
wisdom could be offered as a recommendation, along with explanations of why it makes sense, but it would not be the default.
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