But there will be those who would suggest the UK's diminished military power makes carriers unnecessary.
Flaunting its new found wealth and undoubted military power, Spain was feared in Europe and beyond.
Aircraft carriers are the capital ships of the modern Navy, a potent symbol of American military power.
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They feared the U.S. was losing the edge to the Soviet Union in technology and military power.
At the end of the cold war America was beset by economic anxieties and wary of military power.
His 1995 book, Japan's Revival as a Military Power, did not go over well with his former hosts.
His use of diplomacy combined with economic and military power brought an end to the use of chemical weapons in Syria.
Once or twice a decade the UK may well join big US missions in its capacity as a first-class military power.
At the end of World War I the victorious Allies thought they had dealt decisively with German military power.
And security in the Pacific means a world in which our economic and military power is second to none.
Hence, IW as an alternative to conventional military power may not be sustainable or realistic in the long term.
Behaving like a "normal" military power, however, will not involve going it alone.
The United States is probably the only major military power in the world that makes weapons decisions this way.
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Why does Britain need this ability to project military power to far-flung places?
If America wants to remove Saddam by force, it surely has the military power with which to do so.
Indeed, part of what Rome's military power imposed on Judea was Hellenic culture.
For most people, most of the time, their country's ranking in terms of military power is not a big issue.
She follows a "doability doctrine": America should use its military power where it can to achieve practical if sometimes limited goals.
Third, most portrayals depict an exceptionally narrow and violent view of special operations that weakens our collective understanding of military power.
At the same time, both the United States and China were wary of the Soviet Union's military power and expansionist agenda.
David Davis has opined that the UK is no longer a major military power and should stop pretending that it is.
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Having served with valor in Vietnam, he understands that we have a responsibility to use American power wisely, especially our military power.
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Yet no external enemy or group of enemies has the military power to threaten the American way of life or our existence.
And the United States is the strongest military power on the planet.
However, the US freely admits that this is as much a problem of law as it is about the projection of military power.
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Likewise, who would dominate the region's steel mills, especially in Luxembourg, which could provide a basic building block for mid-20th century military power?
However, once the U.S. can project and sustain significant conventional military power in theater, it will likely be able to defeat these adversaries.
But it would be extraordinary if America sacrificed its position as the world's leading military power as the result of a legislative accident.
Bush was heavily criticized during his presidency for what some observers said was an excessive reliance on unilateral action and U.S. military power.
It is a message that says if Europe intends to be taken seriously as a global power, it will need French military power.
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