Our task today is to shape our defense capabilities to these changing strategic circumstances.
Improving Japan's maritime and air defense capabilities has been an urgent allied priority for many years.
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The general cited a gap in existing defense capabilities that weigh heavily on a nuclear response.
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The U.S. also should suggest to Taipei that it strengthen its civil defense capabilities and defense-in-depth capabilities.
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But failing to invest sufficiently in our defense capabilities in time of war is reckless in the extreme.
" He added that Iran "offers all of its defense capabilities to Syria.
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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And I also want to especially acknowledge, with deep appreciation, your strong support for our nation's nuclear deterrent and missile defense capabilities.
The President's decision will presumably also clear the way for other missile defense capabilities to be brought to bear as quickly as possible.
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.
Like many other military powers, China has exploited the unprecedented general peace in the international security environment to reexamine and experiment with its own defense capabilities and doctrine.
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.
In addition to ordering the nuclear watchdog out of North Korea, Pyongyang has left six-party talks focusing on its nuclear program and has vowed to bolster its nuclear self-defense capabilities.
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In any event, the opening of this new front comes at the same time the Obama administration and Congress are actively making deep and far-reaching cuts in U.S. defense capabilities.
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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.
The white paper also ignores unending attempts by the American military to forge closer relations with China and to be as transparent as possible about U.S. defense capabilities, relationships and operations.
Where the Japanese are responding to Chinese power by getting close to the United States, and by beefing up their own defense capabilities, and becoming a more, if you will, normal power.
President Obama and I agreed that we will continue to enhance and strengthen our combined defense capabilities, and at the same time, firmly respond to any threats or provocations from the North.
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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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And there's plenty of pressure in the South Korean media for a hard line, with the conservative Chosun Ilbo claiming Thursday that "the military has been implementing reforms that weaken defense capabilities" on the islands.
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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Instead, Mr. Obama is negotiating drastic nuclear weapons reductions with Russia, even as he eviscerates our missile defense capabilities, apparently believing unilateral strategic arms cutbacks will entrance Moscow and persuade rogue proliferators to dismantle their programs.
From compromising our national missile defense capabilities to undercutting the modernization of U.S. nuclear forces to unnecessarily limiting our use of missile and bomber launch capabilities for conventional warheads, the treaty is increasingly understood as badly flawed.
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.
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