Our task today is to shape our defense capabilities to these changing strategic circumstances.
The general cited a gap in existing defense capabilities that weigh heavily on a nuclear response.
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But failing to invest sufficiently in our defense capabilities in time of war is reckless in the extreme.
But we'll turn it over to Ivo to do the defense capabilities pieces.
The security of the manufacturing technology we are funding should be used to create American jobs and enhance our defense capabilities.
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But since then it has appreciably evolved far beyond its original air defense capabilities to now include a proven anti-missile capability.
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Clearly, it also illustrates the need not only to think about reversing the precipitous dismantling of U.S. defense capabilities, but to begin doing so fast.
During the same time, Iraq began dispersing aircraft and air defense capabilities in preparation for more aggressive U.S. airstrikes to enforce the "no-fly" zones over northern and southern Iraq.
Here, at this session, we can reaffirm our Article V commitment to our collective defense and to investing in the defense capabilities and new technologies that meet our collective security needs.
We also adopted a Deterrence and Defense Posture Review that showed what the appropriate mix of conventional nuclear and missile defense forces should be in order to advance our deterrence and defense capabilities.
This would, in addition, afford Donald Rumsfeld and his counterparts at other agencies a chance to put in place subordinates who share their commitment to rebuilding, rather than selling off, America's defense capabilities.
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Apparently, the idea will be to exercise its radar with Israel's indigenous missile defense capabilities - adding additional test data to a similar U.S. experiment conducted last month while potentially considerably augmenting Israel's antimissile protection.
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Both within and outside the context of the negotiating record battle, the Obama administration and its supporters had continued to insist throughout 2010, to the Senate and the American public, that New START did not limit U.S. missile defense capabilities.
Admiral Lyons is working with other members of the Committee - many of whom are among the foremost national security practitioners and thinkers of our time - to engage the military community, and those attentive to its views, as catalysts for renewing America's defense capabilities and adopting effective peace-through-strength policies to guide their use.
Coalition partners, including many NATO Allies, have nuclear, chemical and biological defense-related capabilities and expertise that can play an important role.
At each step we will assess the compatibility of the emerging legislation with the foregoing, critical defense priorities and required capabilities with a view to illuminating dangerous shortfalls and areas where corrective actions are needed by the executive or legislative branches.
The NATO countries are reducing their defense budgets and cutting military capabilities.
Some U.S. allies are reducing their defense budgets and cutting their military capabilities.
The Defense Department is building the necessary capabilities.
First, the Defense Department's need for tiltrotor capabilities was formally recognized back in 1982.
However, investment in such capabilities is lagging, as the Quadrennial Defense Review Independent Panel observed.
In this manner, economies might be made in the number and capabilities of systems acquired for national missile defense.
The White House has already directed that any new cuts to defense spending be preceded by a comprehensive review of capabilities and missions, meaning that whatever budget cuts occur will be allocated to avoid harming essential functions.
"The United States will continue to demonstrate unique advanced capabilities as these exercises continue, " said a defense official.
It goes on to direct the Secretary of Defense to submit to Congress a plan for fielding such defensive capabilities within sixty days of enactment of this legislation.
This could result in a double whammy for the United States -- adding a new dimension to the threat we face and encouraging competition for overseas arms sales upon which the American defense industrial base is already unduly reliant to maintain vital production capabilities.
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The amendment required the Department of Defense to consider the effects of climate change upon their facilities, capabilities and missions.
Carter said the budget reductions would have a devastating effect on a number of Pentagon programs, but continued investment in offensive and defense cyber operations would continue, along with unmanned systems, space capabilities and electronic warfare.
Professor GERALD STEINBERG (Bar Ilan University): There's a lot of criticism of Peretz as defense minister not only with no military capability but making grandiose speeches about capabilities about mission or war aims that just couldn't be met.
Defense and public safety agencies are eager to deploy wireless networks to exploit these capabilities and, as a result, contracts are flowing like water.
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