Much of the money will be spent on raising 5, 000 soldiers for a rapid-response brigade, which might add muscle to Mr Martin's support for humanitarian interventions in failing states.
That leaves conflicts that rage in weak and failing states (as in parts of Pakistan and Afghanistan), or in ungoverned space (in parts of Somalia), where rival non-state actors, terrorist groups, militants and warlords do battle.
So in the same way that we have military forces ready to respond to conflict, we must have civilian experts and professionals ready to deploy quickly to assist failing states and to help rebuild countries emerging from conflict, putting them on the road to economic and political recovery.
Again the national security strategy proposes a new departure, again a lesson learnt from recent conflicts ranging from Rwanda and Bosnia to Iraq, Afghanistan and Somalia: to create a standby international civilian capability so that for fragile and failing states we can act quickly and comprehensively by combining the humanitarian, peacekeeping, stabilisation and reconstruction support they need.
Some day it will be a study in how states can louse up anything, and how states failing to act together can louse up everything.
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As great a potential threat as nuclear weapons proliferation - and as demanding of a coordinated international response - is the threat from failing and unstable states.
Several countries condemned the United States for failing to abide by the Geneva Conventions.
He has an American passport and is currently under investigation by federal prosecutors in the United States for failing to report income.
The figures for these underperforming schools were revealed by the head of the government's unit for raising standards in education, Michael Barber, at a conference in the United States on failing schools.
As public scrutiny intensifies over price transparency in health care, a new report shows 72 percent of the nation, or 36 states, failing to improve information to consumers on what medical treatments and procedures actually cost.
The situation in the schools was just one example of how the Bush administration is at odds with the states -- failing to fund mandates in education, homeland security, and the environment, said Arizona Gov. Janet Napolitano.
One way to embolden it, they say, would be for Canada to charge the United States under international law with failing to implement the 1985 treaty.
But the World Bank found that it was failing to have an impact in the poorest states because of under-payments and bad administration.
The United States and Britain accused Iraq of failing to comply with U.N. resolutions demanding it give up chemical and biological weapons, long-range missiles and any nuclear weapons program.
In states that monitor them carefully and close down failing schools quickly, they work best.
But that's what happened to asbestos lawyers in Texas, Mississippi and North Carolina who are accused of failing to disclose fee arrangements that left plaintiffs in Northern states with far less money than their Southern counterparts.
London, England (CNN) -- Four years ago, Tim Howard watched from the sidelines as the United States crashed out of the World Cup after failing to make it past the group stages in Germany, which was a blow to soccer's slow development in America.
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Thousands of schools are failing to measure up, and critics in a number of states are upset about the costs of remedial measures required by the law.
"Al Jazeera has been trying and failing for years to get on television here in the United States, " media writer Brian Stelter of New York Times told CNN.
Contrary to the conventional wisdom that Americans are less afraid of failing as entrepreneurs than people in other nations, the United States was tied with Italy for the sixth highest share of the population reporting that going bankrupt was one of the top two fears people had about starting a business.
The United States pulled out of the treaty talks in Oslo after failing to push through changes it wanted that would have delayed implementing the treaty and would have allowed an exception for the Korean Peninsula.
The United States and the European Union are committed to holding Iran accountable for failing to meet its international obligations.
Failing to understand the time and money needed to engage in litigation in the United States.
At the same time, Santorum's campaign has demonstrated repeated inadequacies, such as failing to make the ballot in Virginia or qualify delegates in parts of some other states.
Middle-class families are allowed to participate in Indiana, while in most states, such programs are limited to low-income families or those in failing schools.
Airlines failing to comply to the request faced a fine or the potential loss of landing rights in the United States.
By failing at the onset of the crisis to indicate that certain limited exceptions would be made, the United States forfeited to the United Nations the task of defining the scope of this loophole, and weakened the weight of a long-standing U.S. policy to oppose the use of food as a weapon in settling disputes.
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