Does this affect our physical military posture in the region in any way that you could share with us today?
As Hamas evolves from a guerrilla force into a semi-regular army, so its military posture has shifted from offence to defence.
It is irresponsible to plan a military posture based on the presumption of amity, or early warning, or a predictability of threats.
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Our U.S. Sixth Fleet military posture in the Mediterranean is a disgrace.
Furthermore, America now has global security responsibilities that require a more robust military posture than in the days before World War II.
Annan said he recently urged al-Assad "to radically change his military posture, " saying the government has the prime responsibility to halt the violence.
Too aggressive a Chinese military posture could produce a countervailing coalition among its neighbors that would weaken both its hard and soft power.
As relates to our specific military posture and defense posture, I think that's something we're going to be focusing on in the coming days.
Preserving a U.S. military posture with the inherent size, flexibility, technological sophistication and robustness to constitute reliable deterrents to the range of prospective threats.
Japan's aggressive embrace of antimissile defenses is forcing the nation to undergo the most wrenching revamp of its military posture since the end of World War II.
Moreover, advocates of a much humbler military posture underestimate the rewards military dynamism brings: in Britain's relationship with America and its clout at the United Nations and elsewhere.
And America's aspirations for co-operative relations with China have degenerated into a more blatant if undeclared form of strategic competition, as America rebalances its entire military posture towards Asia.
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And the destruction of Iran's nuclear capacity will weaken its military posture throughout the region and so weaken its terror proxies from Iraq to Lebanon to Gaza to Afghanistan.
We must preserve a U.S. military posture with the inherent size, flexible and long-range power-projection capabilities, technological sophistication and robustness to constitute reliable deterrents to the range of prospective threats.
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As a practical matter, the upshot of such developments will almost surely be not only to worsen America's military posture but also to degrade its trade and economic posture, as well.
Despite China's increasingly assertive military posture in the western Pacific, a region where America's armed forces have long held sway, communication between the two sides is minimal at the best of times.
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When the administration rolled out its Asia-Pacific military posture a year ago, the need for a new bomber that could function effectively in the vast distances of the Pacific Basin got explicit endorsement.
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In Washington, President Barack Obama's spokesman that "despite the harsh rhetoric we are hearing from Pyongyang, we are not seeing changes to the North Korean military posture, such as large-scale mobilisations and positioning of forces".
Plus, the nomination serves to advance a second Obama front in his second term, related somewhat to this assault on the post-World War II military posture: He is seeking to render the American Right impotent as a force for resisting his overall agenda.
The appeasement of North Korea intensified earlier this year with a Nobel Peace Prize- winning visit to Pyongyang by South Korean President Kim Dae Jong, and a host of concessions by the South unreciprocated by any appreciable diminution of the North's threatening "good-to-go- to-war" military posture.
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Many nations allow their corporate citizens to conduct business in and with the Islamic Republic of Iran, but one Turkish company in particular has provided an array of services that has benefited Iran's military posture and allowed the Iranians to pose a clear and present danger to the Free World.
If you are forced because of the sequester to change our military readiness posture, that has an effect on our safety.
Ted Stevens (R-AK) raised a series of questions this week on the Senate floor concerning unsettling developments in Russia's military force posture.
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Israel would be encouraged to abandon its traditional posture of military self-reliance in favor of a de facto dependence upon U.S. forces misconstrued to represent a form of security guarantee.
Whatever improvements in military effectiveness the actual posture decisions produce, they will serve our interests fully only if they also help sustain and strengthen our ties with our friends, allies and partners around the world.
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Hoss is that rare combination of technical expert -- from cyber to missile defense -- and strategic thinker, whether it was updating our nuclear posture or preparing our military for 21st-century missions.
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U.S. Navy installations throughout California and Nevada were "maintaining a heightened security posture, " a U.S. military official told CNN.
At the same time, both the 2006 QDR and the 2008 National Military Strategy argued that additional risk could be taken in the conventional force posture and even in some areas of advanced technology in order to harvest the additional resources needed to win the current fights.
Apart from the warm glow created by this change of line, Britain feels emboldened to set the tone for its partners' military efforts because it has just completed a sweeping review of its defence posture, while several other European states, including the new German government, are only now embarking on similar exercises.
An Israeli strike will rebuild Israel's eroded deterrent posture and put paid to the notion that Israel is no longer a military power to be reckoned with.
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