And yet, when the revolution in military affairs is still mainly academic, we have cut recklessly into the staple forces.
According to an Australian expert, Paul Dibb, the revolution in military affairs will continue to favour heavily American military predominance.
Those who have triggered clashes and pressed their brothers into unequal military confrontations are specialists neither in fatwas nor in military affairs.
It will be months before policy analysts chime in with their thoughts on this new method of force projection in military affairs.
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We are simply unable to wait in every case for the generation-after-next technologies that may emerge from the so-called Revolution in Military Affairs (RMA).
So far Wahid has treated the problem at a remove: last week he ousted the army spokesman, who had questioned his right to intervene in military affairs.
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In the 1990s, the Pentagon stopped buying new military systems, and as a result the revolution in military affairs is being implemented with weapons that often seem more suited to museums.
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For the cardinal issue of national security is not China, is not Russia, is not weapons of mass destruction, or missile defense, the revolution in military affairs, terrorism, training, or readiness.
If thoughts now turn to Jordan, it is in the realm of political transformation and not in military affairs, where Jordan can make a major contribution to stability that can pave the way to a future peace.
Neville Chamberlain, who was neither, starved the army and navy on the theory that the revolution in military affairs of his time made the only defense feasible that of a "Fortress Britain" protected by the Royal Air Force -- and then failed in building up the air force.
The Bush administration's cardinal sin was interference in predominantly military affairs, starting with overruling the military on the size of the force that invaded Iraq in March 2003.
This discontent is the result of Chavez's strong interference in internal military affairs, and his promotion of certain people at the expense of others.
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Others believe the violence could cement a crucial role for the military in political affairs and stability even as the generals have taken a back seat in the country's reforms.
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The GDP provides for engagement on key topics such as economic cooperation, non-proliferation, space security, cooperation in political-military affairs and efforts to combat translational crime, social inclusion and human rights, and hemispheric issues.
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Train, active in foreign and military affairs for four decades as a citizen and writer (he's the author of such financial books as The Money Masters, which profiled Templeton), has a rsum suited to so sweeping a cause.
Though Japan's emissaries got a polite hearing in Seoul, the South Koreans will be ultra-wary of anything that might give Japan a military toehold in their affairs.
Rates, in turn, fluctuated in response to foreign affairs in general and military ones in particular.
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Indeed, a virtual cottage industry has developed around the topic in Chinese literature on military affairs.
It is also designed to make it easier for the "international community" to thwart the exercise of U.S. military power in foreign affairs.
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Americans lectured Japan on the evils of militarism and wrote a brand new Japanese constitution outlawing the use of military force in international affairs.
Like them, he was against political and military intervention in European affairs, but not in the Caribbean, in Central or South America, or in the Pacific.
As he demonstrates, it is not necessary to be a dove or an anti-militarist to believe that, in some circumstances, it is appropriate and vital for politicians to immerse themselves in the details of military affairs.
Among these were: an entrepreneur who had just sold her business for an eight-figure sum, the managing director of an investment bank, a U.S. manager of an international hotel chain, a publishing executive, the owner of a catering firm, and a specialist on military affairs in the Middle East who works at the UN.
In addition, they had some help from the military in the form of a Veteran Affairs "no-no loan" no down payment, no closing costs.
This established formal structures for the creation of links in political, military and economic affairs.
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"The occupiers who, without having any rights, interfere in Iraqi affairs through their military and security powers, imagine that the Iraqi people and government are indebted to them, " he said.
Russia had "very clearly and consistently explained" that it would not accept a resolution that "would open the path for pressure of sanctions and further to extend military involvement in Syrian domestic affairs, " said Vitaly Churkin, Russia's ambassador to the United Nations.
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For 30 years, the dwifungsi (dual-function) doctrine had allowed the military to involve itself in civilian affairs.
Many others in the Duma have called for renewed increases in Russian military spending as the only way to guarantee respect for Russia in international affairs.
The lack of studying of recent history made it difficult for pupils to understand current affairs and in particular the military action taking place in Afghanistan, the historian had said.
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