It recognizes that all is not satisfactory, let alone well, in his theater of operations.
For example, intelligence support, including battle damage assessment, can be provided from outside the theater of operations.
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The theater of operations for the average combat soldier has normally been limited to the battlefield, where troops can see the enemy that they are fighting.
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In Southeast Asia a major theater of operations for al Qaeda over the past dozen years the Philippines, in particular, was running threat assessments on al Qaeda-linked groups operating there.
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" But World War II meant service in the Army -- or, as he put it, "the European Theater of Operations" with "lots of operations" and "very little theater.
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Thus, the projection of military power could become hostage to the ability to counter long-range systems even as U.S. forces begin to move into a theater of operations and against an opponent.
It was bad enough when, two months ago, word got around that U.S. Central Command's commanding general, David Petraeus, had embraced the meme that Americans were being killed in his theater of operations...
It would be manifestly contrary to U.S. interests even to try since those interests dictate that the American military be able to control space as a theater of operations in any future conflict.
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We can think of few challenges likely to pose a greater danger to our future security posture than that of adversaries seeking to make hostile use of space -- or to deny us the ability to dominate that theater of operations.
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The result was graphically illustrated in the course of the war with Iraq: Notwithstanding the BW Convention, the enemy was equipped with lethal viruses and the United States was forced to rush hastily ginned up inadequately tested antidotes and less-than-effective defensive systems into the theater of operations.
The result was graphically illustrated in the course of the war with Iraq: Notwithstanding the Biological Weapons Convention, the enemy was equipped with lethal viruses and the United States was forced to rush hastily ginned-up and inadequately tested antidotes and less-than-effective defensive systems into the theater of operations.
In the wake of the murders allegedly perpetrated by an individual who was not only allowed to remain in the armed forces and ordered to a theater of combat operations (where he could have done even more harm), but was promoted giving such behavior a pass is appalling to most Americans.
They are acquiring capabilities and developing forces and operational concepts designed to limit the ability of hostile forces, primarily U.S. forces, to rapidly project military power into theater and conduct early, high-intensity aerospace operations designed to halt aggression and create a favorable environment for the buildup of forces in theater and the initiation of counteroffensive operations.
In the reality of operations in the Pakistan-Afghan theater, this is a prescription for disaster.
We determined the length and ability of money that's there now to fund operations in the theater.
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