By making EADS a substantial defense supplier, the United States would be rewarding the French government for years of espionage and bribery that inflicted billions of dollars' of damage on the American aircraft industry and betrayed any trust that they would have earned as credible defense partners.
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The serious concerns about ill-advised technology transfer aside, it is in neither Washington's nor Tokyo's interest to have limited (although substantial) Japanese defense resources utilized inefficiently.
Accordingly, the Middle East Forum's Legal Project has worked on Wilders' behalf, raising substantial funds for his defense and helping in other ways.
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With a stroke of the UN's collective pen, substantial numbers of Israel Defense Forces (IDF) and Israeli citizens find themselves on the wrong side of internationally recognized borders.
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Two other preconditions specifically noted by the President were the need for a halt to Soviet aid to Cuba and substantial reductions in Soviet defense spending from 18 percent of GNP.
"We believe that missile defense is a substantial contribution to NATO's collective security, " said White House spokeswoman Dana Perino.
This time around, 18% of those polled said they understood the impact of the looming cuts, which cut across the entire government and take a substantial bite out of the defense budget.
Is Japan willing to consider offsetting the codevelopment arrangement on the FS-X with a substantial off-the-shelf defense purchase to demonstrate Japanese willingness to buy American when it is sensible to do so?
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In reality, a substantial part of the U.S. defense budget actually is not for defense but instead is a jobs program.
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This has allowed China to make substantial progress, nurturing deep economic, political and defense ties.
These researchers consult with and receive substantial grants to conduct research for the Department of Defense, Transportation Security Administration and other agencies.
On the defense and security side, Mongolia is making substantial contributions of troops to the operations both in Iraq and Afghanistan.
President Obama will underscore the importance of our defense cooperation with Georgia, including Georgia's substantial contributions to international security operations in Afghanistan.
New, highly accurate and mobile Soviet weapons systems continue to be deployed in substantial numbers across a wide spectrum of strategic offense and strategic defense, as well as conventional and chemical arms, on a scale well beyond that of the West.
As a result, South Korea contributes substantial numbers of aircraft, ground forces and materiel toward its own defense.
But the President has already put forward substantial savings in health care entitlements, as well as non-defense discretionary savings.
What is more, these officials have reaffirmed earlier assertions that they are not obliged to submit resulting agreements to the Senate for its advice and consent -- even though the FY1995 Defense Authorization Act's Section 232 expressly requires that such substantial changes to the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty must be ratified by the Senate.
If the revised FS-X deal represents a substantial improvement over the original agreement, it nonetheless amounts to a vastly inferior arrangement for providing for Japan's defense than would outright Japanese procurement of American weapon systems.
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