But, unlike the permanent campaign, a real strategic influence capability for the United States as a whole would not be driven by domestic political issues.
Thirty years ago on March 23, 1983, President Ronald Reagan announced his commitment to develop and deploy an advanced defense capability, the Strategic Defense Initiative, to protect America from a Soviet missile attack.
"A genuine strategic air power must possess a strong power projection capability, which is highly reliant on large aircraft, namely a strategic air freighter and a strategic bomber, " said Wang Yanan, deputy editor in chief at Aerospace Knowledge magazine and a military analyst, in a China Daily report.
First, European procurement rules don't apply to complex fighting ships, for reasons of strategic defence interests or 'sovereign capability'.
Nonetheless, the strategy to prevent Iran from achieving nuclear-weapon capability must include a Strategic Strike Plan (SSP), which could be executed on short notice.
China's strategic shift to high-tech war capability and the geographic expansion of its defense depth -- by blurring the distinction between its defensive and offensive weapons -- has alarmed neighbors.
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Tokyo is preparing a new basic defense policy framework under hawkish Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, and recommendations for that framework compiled Thursday by ruling party lawmakers called for building the capability to attack an enemy's strategic bases for self-defense purposes.
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Dr. ROBERT EINHORN (Senior Adviser, International Security Program, Center for Strategic and International Studies): Syria has a chemical weapons capability.
In fact, to the contrary, such a nuclear "freeze" serves to ensure that the combined effects of aging and changing strategic circumstances go unaddressed, resulting in an inexorable reduction in capability and relevance to the nation's deterrent equirements.
Should investors be alarmed that Facebook did not see this coming and develop the capability itself, or view it as a tremendously swift strategic move?
And in the next strategic defence review, which could come next year, Britain's capability will be reassessed.
The decision to enable the Soviet Union to obtain a comprehensive microelectronics manufacturing capability is, to put it mildly, one of extraordinary strategic significance.
Effective deterrence in the future will require a resilient U.S. capability to counter the effects of sustained past growth in Soviet strategic forces and to address the future dynamism of the Soviet threat (as well as the impact of missile proliferation around the globe).
The MoD has said the "capability" of the RAF's Sentinel will be reviewed in 2015 Strategic Defence and Security Review.
The strategic guidance did not assert that the U.S. military no longer needed to maintain the capability to address two major contingencies at the same time.
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And some around President Bush seem to believe that the "new strategic framework" he has called for really should look a lot like the old "Grand Bargain" sought by the Clinton-Gore administration: a deal that would package deep reductions in U.S. and Russian strategic arms with an allowance for the U.S. to deploy a missile defense of such limited capability as to be largely ineffectual.
Decisions to retire older tactical aircraft, strategic bombers, and surface combatants have been taken based on the assumption that modernization programs would rapidly deliver improved capability.
To achieve these reductions, the Peacekeeper ICBMs have been retired, the Navy has removed four Trident submarines from strategic service and the B-1 bomber is now used for conventional weapons only and will not retain its capability to return to a nuclear role.
The capability to strike at very long range with very great accuracy using conventional weapons has been a goal of strategic air power since the invention of the airplane.
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