The bigger the prizes get, the more strategic control of resources tightens across the region.
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Still, not all cash is worth taking--especially if it means handing over too much strategic control and jeopardizing your long-term growth plans.
Even then it was still an extraordinarily messy and opaque situation it was arguable not until 2007 and the oft-touted surge that the American presence in Iraq was under something approximating competent strategic control.
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This allows strategic control.
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And this treaty, nor have any of the other strategic arms control treaties, dealt with that issue.
That progress would not have been possible without strategic arms control treaties.
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President Lyndon Johnson noted in his memoirs simply his regret that the Soviet action forced him to postpone initiation of strategic arms control negotiations with Moscow.
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It also features strategic arms control objectives which if incorporated into a U.S.-Soviet treaty would result in a more satisfactory strategic balance than that likely to arise under the START treaty currently being pursued.
As outlined in its paper An Assessment of Future Requirements for U.S. Strategic Forces and Strategic Arms Control, the Center judges the ban on mobile ICBMs both essential to a sound START agreement and compatible with a survivable and verifiable basing system for U.S. ICBM deployments utilizing limited transportability, austere silos and preferential protection using strategic defenses.
But many systems that were not deemed vital during a nuclear war, such as non-strategic command and control, were left unprotected.
Indeed, the Center for Security Policy believes it is difficult to overstate the significance that this transaction could have for enhancing Soviet strategic command, control and communications (C3) capabilities.
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Strategic Command, Control and Communications (C3): The United States must ensure that the C3 systems that operate and integrate its strategic offensive and defensive forces effectively are given no less budgetary priority than is accorded those forces.
The former official said if China were to obtain details of this sensitive information, it could use it during a future conflict to intercept presidential communications, locate the president for targeting purposes, or disrupt strategic command and control by the president to U.S. forces in both the United States and abroad.
Strategic sectors under exclusive control of the state are those that have vital economic, social, political or environmental influence.
The effect of this perception is to intensify pressure for expeditious completion of strategic and conventional arms control accords.
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In addition, the state would act through a mechanism of national planning by exercising control over strategic sectors of the country.
One of the speakers at the conference talked about those partnerships as possibly including connections between drug trafficking networks that control sensitive strategic areas and Iran.
Such an approach is detailed in a paper entitled An Assessment of Future Requirements for U.S. Strategic Forces and Arms Control to be released shortly by the Center.
This is a joint committee of members of the Business and Enterprise, Defence, Foreign Affairs and International Development Committees which, every year, scrutinises the government's annual report on the control of strategic exports, including weapons.
What is more, the Administration showed that it can still prevail upon its allies in this case, Britain to act responsibly concerning the control of strategic technologies if only the United States is prepared to provide strong leadership.
The problem for BP is that it fears it could end up losing all of this stunningly valuable asset if it were to take its stake above 50% - because of a Russian prohibition on foreign businesses acquiring majority control of strategic assets.
It recommends, instead, that a different approach to strategic force modernization and arms control be adopted.
The strategic rocket forces, which control nuclear warheads, have listed more of their sites, and security should be reinforced at these by 2008.
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Last month, rebels took control of the strategic Taftanaz military air base in north-western Syria after weeks of fierce fighting with government forces.
The U.S. findings demonstrate a pattern of Soviet activity designed to secure for the Soviet Union maximum strategic advantage from the arms control process.
Buoyed by the chaos after last month's coup, the rebels swept through the north and wrested control of several strategic cities, including Kidal, Gao and Timbuktu.
The announcement can be viewed as a strategic move by Twitter to control more of the user experience surrounding photos, a powerful driver of social media usage.
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This "strategic" approach to arms control, which always insisted on retaining the option of modernization and never took risks with verifiability, was nearly overwhelmed by assaults from two opposite directions.
Karadzic has offered to resign from the presidency after the September elections in exchange for Western security guarantees for Republika Srpska and the Serbs being given control of the strategic town of Brcko.
Buoyed by the chaos after last month's military coup that toppled the government, the rebels swept through the north with relative ease and wrested control of several strategic cities, including Kidal, Gao and Timbuktu.
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