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Thanks to Bush's tax cuts and military spending, which have contributed to budget deficits of $500 billion per year, the US will have to raise taxes and limit budget spending, whether or not Bush is re-elected.
The annual military budget, which has increased by $150 billion since Bush took office, will need to be cut in coming years to get the budget under control;The US is borrowing massively from abroad.
For starters, the dollar has shot up since the election only because Trump has promised to enact deep tax cuts and ramp up spending on decaying infrastructure and America’s supposedly “depleted” military.
Yes, traditional constituencies of the right, such as the business sector, the military, and the Church, will find a somewhat more welcoming government, but a sharp rightward turn is unlikely.
As the cleavages inherited from the military years fade and the ideological ocean that once separated left and right becomes a navigable river, there is potential for coalition reshuffling.
The Initiative also envisages the promotion of regional defense reforms and the improvement of interoperability among military forces in the region.
This reflects the benefits that NATO believes can be drawn from Israel’s unique military experience.
Recently, in anticipation of a hypothetical confrontation with Iran, a major military maneuver – the Juniper Cobra exercise – was conducted to test Israel’s integration into US ballistic missile defenses.
But the US-led military invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq were not the whole of it; many countries also ramped up monitoring and policing of domestic media and ordinary citizens.
During the immediate postwar occupation, US military planners had to impose new currency regimes and central banking institutions.
Whereas ASEAN member states – particularly the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Indonesia – generally have deep military ties with the US, they also value their economic ties with China.
And if China has to press this claim in order to appease ultra-nationalist elements, it should do so by deploying diplomats, rather than its military.
American and European military and civilian leaders have said repeatedly that there is no purely military solution to ending the war in Afghanistan.
Reintegration and reconciliation, which are meant to offer incentives to insurgents to switch sides and perhaps join Afghan security institutions or nominally pro-government militias, are seen as being driven by military logic, rather than representing an honest dialogue between the state, the insurgents, and ordinary Afghans.
If NATO members, Afghanistan’s government and citizens, and, by many accounts, the insurgents, can all agree that there is no military solution to ending the conflict, it is high time to consider and support a comprehensive political process.
As a first step, countries with forces in Afghanistan should accept that, as parties to the conflict, they need to be parties to the peace as well, and that every military operation has far-reaching and sometimes irreversible political implications.
As they contemplate the end of their military operations, NATO members must support a political process if they truly want to stabilize Afghanistan.
The war was meant to demonstrate the strategic power of military might.
Meanwhile, the military and economic opportunity costs of this misadventure become increasingly clear.
Moreover, most analysts agree that at least part of the rationale behind Russia’s invasion of Georgia, reigniting fears of a new Cold War, was its confidence that, with America’s armed forces pre-occupied with two failing wars (and badly depleted because of a policy of not replacing military resources as fast as they are used up), there was little America could do in response.
In doing so, they should bear in mind that it was Assad who led the country into civil war by choosing a military solution when high-level members of his own government and political party argued for a negotiated settlement.
And the world’s only military superpower is often seen within China as trigger-happy when intervening in other countries’ internal affairs.
Any Chinese military move is portrayed as an expansionary and aggressive act that must be contained.
They see a declining superpower using economic, military, and diplomatic means in an unrelenting effort to prevent China’s rise.
Rather, it is how China intends to use its newly acquired economic and military strength in pursuing its domestic and foreign-policy goals – and how the world’s leading powers can ensure that they do not end up harming each other by accident or misunderstanding.
The Chinese economy will continue to grow; the Chinese military will continue to modernize; and the Chinese people will remain united in their Great Power aspirations.
While there was no love lost between the United States and the Kuomintang leadership, the US gave Taiwan assurances of military protection, which deterred China from trying to unify the island with the mainland by force.
While about 8,000 of the 20,000 US troops in Afghanistan operate independently, the rest have joined the most ambitious military venture in NATO’s history, the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF).
Last month, US President Barack Obama, in setting out his broader foreign-policy stance, spoke of Syria’s three evils – brutal military tactics, the terrorist threat from the opposition, and the need to support refugees.
SEOUL – Last month, North and South Korea narrowly avoided a catastrophic military confrontation.
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