Without a doubt, AFRICOM is an essential reform in our global military command structure.
There was a time when Europe was the main arena of global military and commercial competition.
Furthermore, from the 2020s onward, China intends to challenge the United States for global military supremacy.
China fears America is intent on thwarting its emergence as a global military as well as economic power.
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Then we use that influence to stash a global military to further the interests of the American corporations with the loudest lobbyists.
University of Guam President Robert Underwood says the threat is an opportunity for students and educators to discuss Guam's role in global military strategy.
That area is often described as the place where the Internet was invented, but today it looks increasingly like the center of the global military-industrial complex.
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Is it possible the military is using scare tactics to prevent even modest cuts to its oversized budget, which currently represents nearly half of all global military spending?
America, and more soldiers, its global military punch is puny.
But some Americans worry that China could make a cold war with America a self-fulfilling prophecy by trying to acquire more of the trappings of a global military power.
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Cyber Command (USCYBERCOM) will answer to US Strategic Command (USSTRATCOM), the military command that oversees US nuclear and space operations, as well as information warfare and global military intelligence.
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This is a government that can clear-mindedly decide what it wants to do, and then bring to bear the means of getting it done including, if necessary, the use of that global military force.
Among powerful countries, only Russia and China are unequivocally outside it, while the likes of Iran, North Korea and perhaps Venezuela, Syria and Myanmar together account for no more than 2% of global military power.
It comes as the U.S. Japan's chief military ally has vowed to raise its presence in Asia, but the U.S. also is facing across-the-board budget cuts and seeking to reduce its global military footprint as it winds down a decade of wars.
That also means the size of the federal government today is nearly 20% bigger than it was during the 60 years after World War II, when America prospered as the richest nation in world history, with resulting, unprecedented, global military dominance.
If China could, it would likely be content to increase its shares of global GDP and military spending indefinitely without assuming proportional responsibility for global governance.
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The arms programs China initiated two or three decades ago are starting to bear fruit, with serious implications for the regional and global military balance.
In a major foreign policy address on October 8, Romney promoted a traditional U.S. foreign policy dating back decades, based on exerting global influence through military and economic power.
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James Jones yesterday urged American companies that have global interests to make the case for higher military spending, arguing that the U.S. military has guaranteed such companies global access.
Despite global condemnation of the military junta in Yangon, ASEAN has maintained a policy of "constructive engagement" with the ruling State Law and Order Restoration Council (SLORC).
As terrorism exert Daniel Byman notes, al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb "largely lost its struggle in Algeria" before joining forces with al Qaeda's high command in Pakistan and trying to wrap its longstanding fight with the Algerian military into the global jihad.
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Multibillion-dollar budgets have parked people in space, allowed global telecommunications and brought Star Wars military systems within reach.
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Burning all that oil will heighten the military threat resulting from global warming.
Navistar, the latest stock to instantly shine from the Icahn effect, is a major global manufacturer of commercial trucks and military vehicles.
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"What it does is it brings things into a more realistic perspective, " says Neale Smiles, business director of military training company H4 Global.
The dot.com revolution had begun transforming global commerce and culture, and military thinking was infected with viral ideas about how wireless networks might change warfare.
By contrast, for over six decades, the world has been spared another global conflagration because the United States military has been both formidable and forward-deployed.
An "insider" also tells Global Times that the North Korean military previously detained three Chinese fishing boats sailing from northeast Dandong city this year and released two of them after collecting "fines".
The Air Force learned how to take out any enemy it could find a generation ago when it began deploying munitions that could utilize the very accurate military signal transmitted by Global Positioning Satellites.
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