Yet another source of Mr Blair's self-confidence is a feeling that Britain could play a pivotal role in Europe's complex structure of cross-border defence relationships.
Although Myanmar has negotiated ceasefires with some of the ethnic insurgents along the border, defence spending keeps climbing, partly because the government fears an uprising, like the one in 1988 that followed demonetisation.
For its part, Brazil has promoted the South American Union (UNASUR), which aims to develop cross-border infrastructure and defence co-operation.
What of the common Bosnian institutions including state border police, customs and a defence ministry that have been created in the past few years?
"Monitoring and security around border areas has been strengthened, " a defence ministry spokesman told AFP.
Both sides insist that their mobilisation along the border is the minimum necessary for self-defence, but Pakistan, at least, is suspicious.
As Kosovo, the Serbian province with an ethnic-Albanian majority, slides towards war, the government of Albania proper is begging the western defence club to help seal its border.
Scotland is allocated its population share of defence, for instance, when it can be argued much more of the economic impact of defence spend is felt south of the Border.
She says Israel has already responded to fears of retaliation by locating two batteries of its Iron Dome missile defence system near Haifa, close to the Lebanese border.
Six Australian Customs and Border Protection Service Marine Enforcement Officers serving aboard the Australian Customs and Border Protection Vessel Triton, and 12 members of the Australian Defence Force serving on the patrol boat HMAS Pirie, nominated by Australia, for rescuing 41 survivors from a small wooden vessel which had smashed against rocks off Christmas Island, in December 2010, with an estimated 70 to 100 persons on board.
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"Jihadist elements" are now deployed on several points along the frontier between the two sides, from the Mauritanian border in the west to the Douentza region in the east, Malian Defence Minister Col Yamoussa Camara told Radio France International.
She had been ejected from the Minutemen, a self-appointed border patrol group, and started her own splinter group, the Minutemen American Defence Fund.
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He gave warning to Colombia's president that any attempt to mount a similar operation in Venezuela would lead to war and he ordered his defence minister to send ten battalions, including armoured units, to the border.
The Lib Dems say that they would like the Parliament to control all taxation north of the border, sending a portion south to Westminster to pay for common British functions such as defence.
Work has started to build a temporary flood defence on a road near the Ouse Washes nature reserve on the Norfolk and Cambridgeshire border.
"The forces will augment Turkey's air defence capabilities and contribute to the de-escalation of the crisis along the Alliance's border, " Eucom said in a statement.
Geraldo Quintao, the defence minister, is pushing for funds to build two new barracks, one on the Colombian border and another close to where Brazil adjoins Venezuela and Guyana.
The French defence ministry said the 32-year-old soldier was killed between Zaouaten and Boughessa near the border with Algeria.
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