Inevitably, this step will be perceived as irrefutable evidence that East-West military confrontation can never return.
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Mr. Blix knows that a huge majority of his fellow Swedes despise the idea of a military confrontation with Iraq.
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Moreover, Japan has done little to prepare for a military confrontation, instead relying on Washington to take up the slack.
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Bush has been widely criticized in world capitals for what even many historically close U.S. allies have considered a unilateral push for military confrontation with Iraq.
We don't seek military confrontation, but we are prepared to defend ourselves if the need arises and I think people know that what I say is both measured and serious.
"Any intensification of military confrontation greatly increases the risks of creating hotbeds of tension aside from Syria, in Lebanon, and also destabilizing the Israeli-Lebanese border, which has so far remained relatively calm, " ministry spokesman Alexander Lukashevich said Monday.
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The United States has a mutual defense treaty with South Korea and Japan to defend "against any aggression, " so if a military confrontation develops, the United States would be responsible for defending South Korea, a U.S. military official said.
The American public, showing real signs of war weariness after two ground wars over more than a decade, is unlikely to be enthusiastic about a military confrontation with Iran that is likely to be far more costly and indeterminate than either Iraq or Afghanistan.
"If you are a Western security planner who thinks it's highly likely that there has to be a military confrontation with Iran sooner or later, then keeping Syria off the board is probably one of the things that's quite desirable to do, " he said.
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Few in Pakistan believe though, that its political or military leadership would risk an outright confrontation with Washington.
Yet the hard truth, for Georgians and others, is that pleas for military backing from the West in any confrontation with Russia are unlikely to be heeded.
In fact, the seminal moment in the book involves (coincidentally enough) another confrontation with McChrystal and the top military brass during the run-up to the president's fateful decision to approve a troop surge in Afghanistan.
More than two years after the breakout of the Syrian confrontation there does not seem to be a military solution.
Still, the likelihood of a full-blown, open confrontation between Morsy and the country's military rulers is low, said Monique El-Faizy, a project leader at the World Policy Institute.
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