The prospect of a future, real reduction in the conventional military threat facing Western Europe.
No major power presents a direct military threat to our core national security interests.
Venezuela argues, plausibly, that it needs to replace obsolete weaponry and, less plausibly, that it faces a military threat.
Burning all that oil will heighten the military threat resulting from global warming.
Europe was originally created by three forces: Catholicism, the military threat of Islam and the military ambition of Charles the Great.
China and Europe do not see each other as a military threat.
If it were a military threat from such a tiny country, the overwhelming military strength of the rest of the world would make it a joke.
Over time the issue will loom larger if North and South manage to hash out measures to wind down tensions and reduce the mutual military threat.
"That's why I believe that we need a strong and credible military threat coupled with the sanctions to have a chance to change that situation, " he added.
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The refusal by France, Germany and Belgium to agree to NATO's plans to bolster Turkey's defences against a potential military threat from Iraq left the Americans incandescent.
The countries share deep concerns of a future military threat from the east -- namely, Russia -- and may now look for other defense assurances from their NATO allies.
It is surely clear that any recent movement we have seen by Iraq towards meeting the demands of the UN have been in response to the (increasing) military threat.
Alexander Golts, a Russian military analyst, says that this is the first time since the cold war that Russia has declared its intention to create a military threat to the West.
The Iraqi regime, under military threat and the pressure of severe economic sanctions, has permitted this intrusion and allowed UNSCOM inspectors access to its facilities and personnel to a remarkable degree.
Mr Netanyahu also reiterated his view that Iran and its nuclear programme posed a direct threat to world peace, which could only be stopped by a "direct military threat", not sanctions or tough diplomacy.
It argued that any military threat to Australia was most likely to come from or through the Indonesian archipelago, which lies across vital air and sea lanes, but that such a threat was likely to be remote as long as Indonesia was stable.
Fewer than a quarter of Indonesians, Turks, Pakistanis and Jordanians, and a tenth of Moroccans, support the war on terror. (The survey was completed before the May 16th terrorist attack in Casablanca.) By contrast, in seven of the Muslim countries surveyed, a majority of the population imagined that America might become a military threat to their country.
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They will be able to study or join the military without the threat of deportation.
" In fact, she later stated that China's burgeoning military might was not a threat but that, "what is important is for China's military power to be put to the service of peace.
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Reacting to Clinton's speech, Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister Tariq Aziz denounced the threat of military action.
He stressed as long as Saddam defied UN resolutions there must be the threat of military action.
Obama and Netanyahu, whose relations are famously tense, can agree on the threat of military action against Iran.
French President Jacques Chirac has proposed a two-step plan for resuming inspections backed by the threat of military force.
The world community, in the form of the UN, has expressed the opinion that Iraq should disarm and that the threat of military action is an appropriate means for exerting pressure.
Mr Olmert needs to know whether this finding has neutralised Mr Bush's threat of military action against Iran, and how America would react if Israel were to launch an air strike on its own.
In that connection, another reason for the exodus of Western companies from Iraq -- over and above the looming threat of military conflict -- has been a new rule put in place regarding the UN-approved oil- for-food program.
That information could support the argument that military action could create a threat from Iraq, he argued.
As Secretary Lehman points out, the threat to the military is as acute now as it has ever been.
More than ever before, the Pakistani public, politicians and the military agree on the existential threat posed by the Pakistani Taliban.
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