European countries want to be military powers, but increasingly are failing to maintain capable forces.
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Too many commitments today leave our Armed Forces capable of meeting too few contingencies tomorrow.
"As Iraq's forces become more capable, as the security situation improves, the need for U.S. forces, for coalition or other foreign forces to engage in support will diminish, " Satterfield said.
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As a nation with important interests in multiple regions, our forces must be capable of deterring and defeating aggression by an opportunistic adversary in one region even when our forces are committed to a large-scale operation elsewhere.
Finally, the notion of deliberately sequenced conflicts was entirely eliminated in favor of the requirement that U.S. forces be capable of responding to a second regional aggression while already engaged in a major theater conflict or substantial stability operation.
While slightly smaller forces were capable of prevailing without a significant increase in risk in the base case of the analysis, a larger force was judged necessary to conduct these operations with acceptable risk when either enemy chemical weapons were used or shorter warning times were played.
And as the Iraqi forces grow more capable, they are increasingly taking the lead in the fight against the terrorists.
The result is a porous, honeycomb-like structure that is capable of withstanding the applied forces, but weighs very little due to its parsimonious use of materials.
The alliance looks set to remain the only multi-national military player capable of deploying and sustaining forces either in support of its own political goals or those of the United Nations.
Mr. MICHAEL EISENSTAT (Washington Institute for Near East Policy): It has to be a much larger, a much more capable force and it probably has to include light and mechanized infantry, armor, light artillery, as well as special forces who are capable of conducting a counterinsurgency and counterterrorist type operations.
But Iraq's leaders are confident and say Iraqi forces are now quite capable of handling internal security without US support, he says.
He said the country's security forces were far more capable of carrying out the kind of special operations that could prevent such attacks.
If the armed forces are to remain capable of performing successfully the multitude of missions levied upon them by our leaders, they must have - among other things - a dependable and sufficient airlift capacity.
Mr Hammond said Afghan forces were increasingly confident and capable.
But a nuclear warhead would have to be small enough to fit onto, say, a Nodong missile - and it would have to be capable of withstanding the buffeting and other forces exerted on it during flight.
It is the sort of campaign that the armed forces have already shown themselves quite capable of orchestrating.
Kabul is much safer than it was, and Afghan forces in Kabul are much more capable than they were.
Abizaid has warned that a troop surge might placate targeted areas in the short run but could leave U.S. forces over-extended and less capable in the summer months that would follow.
Most police forces in Britain have specially adapted patrol vehicles capable of detecting tracker signals.
Now, it is time for their colleagues and the public to join forces behind a concerted effort to deploy defenses capable of defeating the emerging threat.
These "Raptors" would permit the replacement of thirty-year-old F-15s with stealthy planes capable of providing assured air superiority and support for ground forces, even against enemies with advanced anti-aircraft defenses.
But neighbours can join forces to create mini-farms of two or three acres, capable of supporting livestock.
Security forces seized vehicles and weapons, including a high-powered rifle capable of penetrating armoured vehicles, Sinaloa state prosecutors said.
Although Serbia's president, Boris Tadic, congratulated the Montenegrins on independence (and said he would be in charge of Serbia's armed forces), Mr Kostunica and the nationalists around him appeared barely capable of taking in what had happened.
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Today's paper says, "even when US forces are committed to a large-scale operation in one region, they will be capable of denying the objectives of - or imposing unacceptable costs on - an opportunistic aggressor in a second region".
The Marines were sent to Spain in recent weeks as part of a new permanent contingency force capable of moving into North Africa very quickly after the deadly attack in Benghazi last year showed military forces were not close enough to assist.
Multiple upgrades to the Aegis system are now progressing in parallel, with missiles, radars and computers all being improved in a series of increasingly capable increments that could one day make Aegis warships vital to defense not only of overseas allies and deployed forces, but also the continental United States.
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