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Now their priority is to prepare for that eventuality, so that military conflict will not take Turkey by surprise.
After all, the Israeli government not only permitted the supposedly unapproved outposts to exist, but also supplied them with water, electricity, Internet, and military protection.
None of the Middle East’s problems has a military solution, and none can be solved through unilateral action.
After all, such changes are best served not by imposing stifling sanctions, or through military “shock and awe” tactics, as in Iraq, but by socioeconomic improvement and diplomatic engagement by external powers.
And, of course, he should work to mitigate the risk that Russia creates a permanent zone of military tension along its borders with NATO.
The possibility of degrading Iran’s nuclear weapons program through military action cannot be totally discounted, although it should of course be the last option and would be immensely risky even if militarily possible.
Trump tends to express himself in terms of national interests, sovereignty, military capacities, and economic supremacy.
On conflict and security issues, Europe should be advancing to a new phase in which it takes much clearer and unambiguous positions on issues ranging from nuclear proliferation to sanctions against Burma’s military regime.
However, his fellow military commanders insisted on compliance with Pinochet's own Constitution, forcing the General to back down from a demand for emergency powers to set aside the results.
Yet there are compelling arguments to call a halt to the practice, inaugurated by Pinochet in 1978 and copied by military regimes in several other Latin American countries, to protect themselves by issuing amnesties for their own crimes.
Indeed, the ongoing crisis in Ukraine involves nuclear-armed powers whose collective military spending accounts for nearly two-thirds of the global total.
Russia’s military intervention in eastern Ukraine has placed it in breach of international law and in violation of the Budapest Memorandum of 1994, by which Ukraine surrendered its nuclear arsenal in exchange for a guarantee of its borders by Russia, the United Kingdom, and the United States, later followed by China and France.
The combination of low energy prices and Western sanctions will make it difficult for Russia to maintain its high level of military spending over time.
None of this is to say that the West should exclude the provision of military training and supplies; but it must do so prudently and to support a political process.
Neither Ukraine nor the West would benefit from escalating the conflict – a point worth emphasizing in view of the debate in US foreign-policy circles (and beyond) in recent months about whether to supply Ukraine’s government with lethal military aid.
What NATO can and should do – in a transparent manner – is scale up defensive military support for its members close to Russia.
Many Russians point to past Western military action – bypassing the UN in Kosovo, Iraq, and Libya, for example – as evidence of Western double standards.
And because the US was the dominant military power, it could ensure geopolitical security, too.
At this point, fear of a new crisis could precipitate capital flight away from the dollar, at which point the US would have to deal with a dollar crisis in addition to a potential military conflict.
In fact, by the end of last year, capital inflows had pushed the dollar up to levels not seen in more than a decade, owing to expectations of large-scale deregulation, tax cuts, and fiscal stimulus in the form of infrastructure spending and increased outlays for America’s supposedly “depleted” military.
If there were any doubts about Pakistan’s duplicity, they should have been eliminated in 2011, when Osama bin Laden was killed in a military garrison town near the country’s capital.
Obama’s objective was to preserve the option of reaching a Faustian bargain with the Taliban – a power-sharing arrangement to underpin a peace deal – facilitated by the Pakistani military.
America took almost 15 years to carry out its first drone strike in Pakistan’s sprawling Balochistan province, even though the Afghan Taliban leadership established its command-and-control structure there almost immediately after the US military intervention ousted it from Afghanistan.
Simply put, bribing Pakistan’s military will not work.
Obama’s decision last October to prolong indefinitely US involvement in Afghanistan means not only that he will leave office without fulfilling his promise to end Bush-era military entanglements, but also that the US will continue to fight the war on the wrong side of the Afghan-Pakistani border.
During the war, Churchill and Roosevelt shared the idea that once Germany and Japan were defeated, British and US military forces should act as global policemen.
The US is the strongest military power in the world, just as Britain was in Churchill’s youth.
As the US military leaves, it will enter another period of political and strategic uncertainty, after almost a half-century of disorder and civil war.
Greece had been following the standard practice of registering expenditures when military purchases were actually delivered.
Ariel Sharon, who comes from a military background - he grew up in a social milieu much nearer to Labor than to Jabotinsky's ideas - is a strategic hawk.
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