The cost of this has been dropping steadily since 2000 even as Iranian sabre-rattling gets louder.
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He himself eschews nationalistic sabre-rattling and looks to the party's liberal wing for fresh ideas.
China has astutely avoided overt sabre-rattling, preferring instead to try to persuade America to apply the pressure.
Pakistan has moved troops from its western tribal regions to the east in response to Indian sabre-rattling.
Opening the debate, Mr Baron called on the West to stop its "sabre-rattling" policies over Iran's nuclear ambitions.
For all its sabre-rattling, Israel still says that diplomacy is preferable to war.
So they do a bit of sabre-rattling but mostly let their companies use tax havens to suit their needs.
Mr Ghosn may just be sabre-rattling to get more concessions from the government or to persuade Brussels to approve the aid package.
Rather than relying on unilateral sanctions or sabre-rattling, America's best bet is still to persuade Russia and China to help isolate the regime.
Azerbaijan's president, Ilham Aliev, has been sabre-rattling to drum up support.
Gloomier Israelis fear the sabre-rattling reflects a sharp deterioration in Arab-Israeli relations and growing Arab concern at the thought of Binyamin Netanyahu's finger on a nuclear button.
How could the West criticise Russia for sabre-rattling, asked the eloquent Aleksei Pushkov, when America and its allies had not just rattled sabres, but actually used them in Iraq.
However much Republicans may play up the similarities between China and the Soviet Union, Chinese sabre-rattling does not represent a global challenge comparable to that of the Soviet Union.
This nuclear sabre-rattling is causing concern internationally at a time when Pakistan-backed terrorist attacks are increasing in Kashmir, raising the prospect of confrontations similar to those of last year.
Politically, the move was an astute one by a beleaguered chancellor desperate to woo the sabre-rattling unions and rally his rebellious troops behind him before the Social Democrats' party congress.
Though Indonesia gets on well with both Iran and America, and thus in theory could help bring them together, there was nothing but the usual sabre-rattling from Iran's president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, when he visited Jakarta last week.
Alarmed by months of sabre-rattling and a possibility that Israel will make good on long-standing hints that it intends to attack Iran's nuclear facilities, he and President Barack Obama had softened their tone before the talks begin.
Dutch Eurosceptic MEP Barry Madlener accused Turkey of sabre-rattling, and said that if Turkey decided to boycott talks with the EU during the forthcoming Cypriot presidency of the Council of Ministers, then "they should never come back to the negotiating table".
Iraq's irascible tyrant has been rattling his gold-plated sabre in recent days, sending his air force into Saudi airspace and complaining that some of the oil exported by Kuwait really belongs to Iraq.
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