The Contingency Force was a rapid reaction capability maintained to deal with lesser contingencies.

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Although it seems rudimentary compared with the heavier Bradley, the Army will need thousands of replacements to deal with various contingencies in the future, and York is a source that can credibly supply them.

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The fact is we planned very fully to deal with these contingencies which are here now, and we have a system which in a very unsatisfactory state of affairs, a fire strike, is as robust as it could be.

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However, the campaign in Libya has re-ignited the debate that raged during the SDSR as to how the government could deal with the overall budget deficit and a black hole in the defence budget over the next decade without harming current operations and the armed forces' ability to deal with future contingencies.

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This should put an end to discussion of funding our defense budget at levels inadequate to deal with two major contingencies simultaneously.

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As Mr Rumsfeld likes to point out, military strategies are supposed to be flexible and contain contingencies to deal with unexpected events.

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At the meeting of the Scottish cabinet this morning, we agreed to set up the Scottish Cabinet Contingencies Group to deal with contingency planning throughout any period of conflict, including during April if necessary.

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