He adds that east Europeans, keen on NATO's security umbrella, will never trust joint European defence as long as they have lingering suspicions that it is a French scheme to weaken NATO.
"We have got to be clear that the requirement for the carriers is part of a joint requirement for defence as a whole, and the effect they provide is a joint effect, not a maritime effect in isolation, " he said.
This is not a deal that Mr Papandreou likes, since Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Turkey's prime minister, has just proposed that the two formerly hostile neighbours should make a joint agreement to cut defence spending.
Mr Hagel made the comments at a joint news conference with British Defence Secretary Philip Hammond.
England's defence is the joint-meanest in the tournament, while Brazil's attack has been in free-scoring form.
During a joint press conference with Spanish Defence Minister Pedro Morenes Eulate, he also said Spain was a vital US ally.
But one member of the Joint Committee spoke up in defence of Mr Phillips, insisting that the actions of the chairman of the EHRC did not amount to a contempt of Parliament.
On Wednesday the three men will hold a joint meeting - alongside Afghan Defence Minister Bismillah Khan Mohammadi and Pakistani Foreign Secretary Jalil Jilani - as part of what the US describes as "an ongoing trilateral dialogue".
They also said they would set up a joint investigation with the South Korean defence ministry.
Britain, France and Italy, having recently decided, after years of dithering, not to build a frigate together, still hope to produce a joint sea-based air-defence system which would have some capacity against missiles.
They are asked to send troops for joint training, spend a certain amount on defence and so on.
The coalition government put the idea on hold over the summer, he said, but transport and defence ministers had now made a joint submission to the Treasury suggesting a private finance initiative (PFI) deal.
The modification for autonomous flight was carried out in a joint venture with Lockheed Martin, a big American defence contractor.
It will be good for our Australian Defence Force to increase their capabilities by joint training, combined training, with the U.S. Marines and personnel.
So Boeing is left as the only bidder for a defence contract second only to the enormous Joint Strike Fighter contract won by Lockheed Martin in 2001.
This is a joint committee of members of the Business and Enterprise, Defence, Foreign Affairs and International Development Committees which, every year, scrutinises the government's annual report on the control of strategic exports, including weapons.
The RAF's newest stealth aircraft, the Joint Strike Fighter, will be based in Norfolk, the defence secretary has revealed.
The same day, Robert Gates, the secretary of defence, and Mike Mullen, the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, urged Congress to repeal DADT before the end of the year.
But in bilateral talks with America's president, George Bush, Mr Putin proposed joint use of radar stations in Azerbaijan, as an answer to American defence concerns east of Europe.
Dick Cheney and Colin Powell have both got first-hand experience of running a war, Mr Cheney as defence secretary during Desert Storm, Mr Powell as chairman of the joint chiefs of staff.
Meanwhile, South Korea's defence ministry said it will be holding a video conference with the US Joint Chiefs of Staff on Thursday.
He met Indian Defence Minister AK Antony after which the two countries announced plans to resume joint military exercises after a gap of four years.
The right response to lean defence budgets, argues Mr Rasmussen, is not to cut NATO's joint projects, but to have more of them.
On Wednesday, US Defence Secretary Robert Gates, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Admiral Mike Mullen, are due to testify before Congress on Capitol Hill.
Admiral Mike Mullen, chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, Hillary Clinton, the secretary of state, and Robert Gates, the defence secretary, are said broadly to support General McChrystal's call to add substantially more troops to the roughly 68, 000 American and 35, 000 allied forces in Afghanistan.
Since 1994, the ISC has been the statutory oversight body for the Security Service (MI5), Secret Intelligence Service (MI6), and Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ), and also consults with the Joint Intelligence Committee (JIC), Intelligence, Security and Resilience Group (ISRG), the Defence Intelligence Staff (DIS), and other agencies.
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The joint security treaty that Japan signed with the United States in 1960 remains the cornerstone of the country's defence policy.
Pre-publication leaks tried to cast Mr Brown as the champion of defence: he would fund fully two new aircraft carriers, as well as the Typhoon fighter and the Joint Strike Fighter, all the while maintaining the army at about 100, 000 men and remaining committed to the war in Afghanistan.
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