Force planning is also under way for a quite separate expansion of Nato's activities in Afghanistan.
The essential challenge for Cold War force planning was embodied in the title of a book written by two Kennedy-era defense officials.
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Beginning in the late 1980s, U.S. defense planners began to rethink the character of a possible conflict with the Soviet Union, the central feature of U.S. force planning for more than four decades.
Until the 2001 QDR replaced threat-based force planning with an approach based on portfolios of capabilities, the DOD continued to measure the adequacy of its force structure in terms of the ability to defeat the most likely threats.
In evaluating the QDR force structure, we were hampered by the lack of a clearly articulated force-planning construct that the military services and Congress can use to measure the adequacy of U.S. forces.
There was a viewpoint at that time that Sprint was planning to force Clearwire into bankruptcy and then reclaim its very valuable spectrum assets at a bargain price.
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Given their authorities, programs, and expertise, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Department of Agriculture (USDA) have institutional capacities that can contribute significantly to the Natural Resource Damage Assessment and restoration efforts, including scientific and policy expertise as well as experience gained in the Task Force process and other planning efforts in the Gulf area.
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It calls explicitly for "harmonized force development and equipment acquisition planning" and commits the signatories to its realization.
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Customer relationship management was cited as the most important focus for firms, followed by e-business, sales-force automation, enterprise resource planning and applications management.
But shadow foreign secretary Francis Maude said Mr Blair had been "very misleading" in denying the EU force would have no separate planning capability.
In 2009, a tip to the task force broke up a ring that was planning to bomb the subways.
In doing so, Executive Order 13554 established a Gulf Coast Ecosystem Restoration Task Force (Task Force) to coordinate intergovernmental efforts, planning, and the exchange of information in order to better implement Gulf Coast ecosystem restoration and facilitate appropriate accountability and support throughout the restoration process.
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Bristol City Council said early indications are that 80% of its tenants are not planning to move when the changes come into force from April.
Planning Minister Ginandjar Kartasasmita, who has an air force background and has been discussed as a possible candidate, dismissed Juwono's comments.
In line with the coalition agreement, it is planning a change in the law next year to force suppliers to include details of the cheapest deal on the statement.
An inter-government task force has been formally established, with the National Health and Family Planning Commission leading the coordination along with the Ministry of Agriculture and other key ministries.
The force, separate from NATO but with plans to share some NATO planning facilities, intelligence and communications, would be used to meet crises that NATO does not want to get involved in.
This European force could undermine NATO, particularly if it has a separate headquarters and planning staff.
Mr Josemans says his cafe, along with many others, is planning to boycott the new law - a move that will force the government to challenge them in court.
The government's National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF) is due to come into force on Wednesday, 27 March, 12 months after it was unveiled by the Chancellor, George Osborne, in last year's budget.
The Infrastructure Planning Commission (IPC), a quango with the ability to force through important national projects over the objections of locals, is supposed to make it easier to build power lines, storage plants, wind farms and the like.
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The New Cities Foundation, a non-profit organization that wants to create more sustainable, dynamic, creative and global cities teamed with Ericsson created a special task force, the Connected Commuting Task Force, to see if there was a positive correlation between the use of smartphone trip planning applications and improving the commuting experience.
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Extensive safety planning, in conjunction with Liverpool City Council, has been carried out, the force said.
But, given the difficulty the government will face in keeping a force of this size and composition in the Gulf indefinitely, this week's deployment suggests it is planning for a relatively early and short war.
Recently, a task force of the International Association of Transportation Regulators representing 15 U.S. and Canadian cities said it is planning to release a set of guidelines aimed at reining in smartphone livery services such as Uber, a recent article in The Wall Street Journal reported.
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Merck and Schering are planning to eventually introduce a combination pill of Zocor and Zetia, which some analysts hope will blunt the force of the Zocor patent expiration.
Oracle says HP is phasing it out and that Oracle is therefore planning to drop support for Itanium, while HP says it has no such plans and will attempt to force Oracle to continue its support for the chip.
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