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In 2010, the South Korean public was sharply critical of the military’s failure to retaliate immediately following the North’s sinking of the Cheonan, a South Korean warship carrying more than 100 personnel, and its shelling of Yeonpyeong Island later that year.
If an unyielding South becomes engaged in another military game of chicken with the often-audacious and always-erratic North, the results could be catastrophic.
Without such an approach, North and South Korea could, before long, be locked in another military standoff.
Moreover, as long as the summit is in play, North Korea need not fear a US military strike.
Moreover, trucks carrying goods between Palestinian towns and villages now must unload and reload their cargo before entering each town so as to allow the Israeli military to inspect the shipment.
The emergence of such a future would present the world with a stark choice: either acquiesce to an Iran that possesses or could quickly assemble a nuclear device, or launch a preventive military attack designed to destroy much of the Iranian nuclear program.
Examining the US-led coalition's prewar actions may well expose official deception and manipulation in making the case for military intervention.
Coalition military officials recognize the obvious: without proof of Saddam Hussein's demise, resistance by his hardcore supporters would inevitably continue.
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Consistent with this, the US military presence is decreasing.
Behind this prediction is a widely shared assessment that the trends in Afghanistan (unlike in Iraq) are negative, and that the US must strengthen its military presence there and revise its strategy if the Taliban are not to gain the upper hand.
Here, Barack Obama appears more willing to have the US launch unilateral military raids against terrorists should the opportunity arise.
With a strained military and a struggling economy, the next president will often have little choice other than to talk.
There is something of a consensus, for example, emerging around the notion that the US should remain in Iraq for some time to come, albeit with a reduced level of military forces.
In Myanmar, despite bitter resistance from the military regime, Ban pressured the authorities to let in humanitarian aid after Cyclone Nargis devastated the country last year.
But, wherever the truth may lie, few critics take into account that he, like all former UN chief executives, has to deal with the reality that he possesses only moral power, not economic, military, or political power.
In fact, it is equivalent to roughly 1% of annual global GDP, 18 months of US military spending, or one-twentieth of US national debt.
Ironically, there is one area in which large budget cuts are certainly warranted: the military.
The problem for the rich is that, other than military spending, there is no place to cut the budget other than in areas of core support for the poor and working class.
If train traffic on certain routes increased, it suggested that army food supplies were being delivered, thus hinting at impending military action.
Likewise, shipments of toilet paper are amazingly accurate indicators of military activity.
It has not prosecuted the perpetrators of the 2008 Mumbai massacre, or constrained the terrorist forces that operate, with the complicity of the military establishment, on its territory.
The military does.
After World War II, the US picked up the interventionist mantle, following a CIA-backed military coup in Syria in 1949 with another CIA operation to topple Iran’s Mohammad Mossadegh in 1953 (to keep the West in control of the country’s oil).
The US established military bases throughout the region, and repeated failed operations by the CIA have left massive supplies of armaments in the hands of violent foes of the US and Europe.
Iran’s leaders, alarmed that they were being encircled, lost no time in offering the West a grand bargain covering all contentious issues, from nuclear-weapons development – they halted their military nuclear program – to regional security, including the Israeli-Palestinian peace process and their backing of Hezbollah and Hamas.
And that is precisely what countries like Egypt and Saudi Arabia are doing, having established a joint Arab military force to fight Iranian influence in the region, as well as discreet security links with Israel, another self-declared victim of the framework agreement.
As a result, Turkey now finds itself collaborating with Saudi Arabia in backing the Al Nusra Front, the Syrian arm of Al Qaeda, which captured Idlib in the first major military setback for Assad in recent months.
After all, military power is about its potential use, not the rationalizations for its existence.
By doing so, it opened the way to military dictatorship.
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