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Companies in these industries tend to be not only family-owned, but also large in size and heavy in capital investment, and they do not typically view startups as potential strategic business partners.
More broadly, increases in the supply of weapons funneled to rebel forces by Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and others have correlated with surges in the civilian death toll, suggesting that they cost more lives than they save – and with no evident strategic gains.
And the United States’ dexterity in addressing these disputes will help to determine whether America’s strategic “pivot to Asia” contributes to forging a regional security order that is acceptable to an increasingly assertive China.
Given NATO’s current lack of strategic coherence, and disparities in its members’ military capabilities – which have been aggravated by budget cuts in the wake of the global financial crisis – cooperation with non-members is no longer a luxury; it is a necessity.
Capable non-member states must be integrated into the Smart Defense framework, including participation in developing critical competences such as intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance and strategic airlift.
Nowhere is this truer than in Asia, where longstanding US strategic engagement, backed up by the world’s most advanced military, has maintained the balance of power for decades.
Insofar that Trump’s policies pose serious risks, it is not because they represent a strategic reorientation for the US, which was happening anyway, but rather because they are self-contradictory and unnecessarily destructive.
The real strategic danger of the Trump era, then, is not merely that the global order is changing.
The Promise of Euro-Atlantic Missile DefenseBRUSSELS – The new strategic arms reduction treaty (START) that Russian President Dmitri Medvedev and US President Barack Obama just signed in Prague is an historic achievement, and an inspiration for further progress in global arms control.
To be sure, China has made itself a major player in every region of the world, by deploying a combination of trade, aid, and investment – in particular, by pursuing major infrastructure investment projects in strategic locations throughout the developing world, as part of its “one belt, one road” strategy.
While the TB response has leveraged strategic partnerships to expand coverage, large gaps remain, the largest being treatments for children and patients with drug-resistant TB.
Indeed, with Kerry’s time and travel focused on the Middle East, many Asian leaders believe that Obama’s signature foreign policy – strategic “rebalancing” toward Asia – has run out of steam, even as tension between China and Japan, evident in their leaders’ statements at Davos, continues to mount.
Its economic punishments range from restricting imports or informally boycotting goods from a targeted country to halting strategic exports (such as rare-earth minerals) and encouraging domestic protests against specific foreign businesses.
In 2012, after China’s sovereignty dispute with Japan over the Senkaku Islands (which the Japanese first controlled in 1895) flared anew, China once again used trade as a strategic weapon, costing Japan billions of dollars.
Chinese leaders value the lopsided trade relationship with India – exports are more than five times higher than imports – as a strategic weapon to undercut its rival’s manufacturing base while reaping handsome profits.
I hope that they do not share policy priorities, particularly a change of strategic alliances, which would be equally bad for Greece and for Europe.
Given this, America’s strategic adversaries, China and Russia – and even its ally, the European Union – are trying to establish alternative payment systems to protect themselves in the future.
It is important to recognize that today's international situation and strategic stability are more fragile than during the Cold War years of predictable superpower rivalry.
An element of wishful thinking has also entered some Russian strategic thinking.
As no benefit can be gained by Russia from either surrendering or holding tough on this issue, the best thing for us is to evade negotiations on it altogether and, instead, initiate a wide-ranging dialogue on preserving and strengthening global strategic stability.
Blinded by internecine domestic power struggles, they failed to see the great powers’ strategic gambits in the region.
Caught in this vicious spiral, North and South Korea will become far more vulnerable to neighboring powers’ strategic maneuvers.
They must now nail down France on a watertight testban and lobby for a similar commitment from China; and France' s partners in the European Union must now challenge the government in Paris to spell out what it means by "Europeanizing" the French nuclear strategic forces, if it is serious at all.
But Israel’s blunder in October 1973 was more political than military, more strategic than tactical – and thus particularly relevant today, when a robust Israeli peace policy should be a central pillar of its security doctrine.
They encouraged a national mood of strategic complacency that percolated into the military as much as it was influenced by the military, paving the way for the success of Egypt’s exercise in tactical deceit.
They missed the chance to turn a tactical success into a major strategic victory for Zionism in the form of a political settlement with much of the Arab world.
On the other side was the Chinese solution, with increasingly costly reserve management giving way to activist sovereign wealth funds looking for strategic participation in investments abroad.
But China is reluctant to squeeze North Korea, because it fears that doing so could lead to the collapse of the Kim regime, and the loss of its strategic buffer against the US.
Europe’s Asian PivotCAMBRIDGE/OXFORD – The Obama administration’s so-called “pivot to Asia” is the most important strategic shift that the United States has undertaken since the end of the Cold War – and it has profound implications for Europe.
But the rebalancing does have strategic implications for Europe.
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