It has therefore traditionally been tapped only in the aftermath of major hurricanes or during military conflicts.
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In the 1920s and 1930s, the two countries established diplomatic ties, but there were occasional military conflicts.
During the 1990s, with no ongoing military conflicts, the British government began closing its seven military hospitals.
The record of the United States in military conflicts is open to the world and well known.
The region faces a number of problems including a lack of economic development, environmental pollution, and military conflicts.
Rector reports that has been more than all spending on all military conflicts from the American Revolution to today, in 2008 dollars.
Such a breakdown may seem incredible to veterans of past military conflicts.
Women have the opportunity to serve on the front lines of our military conflicts, and that means that they're getting paid and promoted equally.
These limitations mean that pupils are not learning about military conflicts that have preceded the current attacks on Afghanistan, such as in the Balkans and the Gulf War.
It uses an estimated 2.6 billion gallons of jet fuel a year, and that could increase if future military conflicts require more flying sorties (North Korea, Iran) and fewer ground troops (Iraq).
Since 1960, America has been dragged into military conflicts in Cuba, Thailand, Laos, Congo, Vietnam, the Dominican Republic, Cambodia, Cyprus, Lebanon, Zaire, El Salvador, Libya, Lebanon, Honduras, Nicaragua, Chad, Liberia, Bosnia, Somalia and, more recently, Kosovo and Colombia.
It is a vital national security interest of the United States to reduce these conflicts because whether we like it or not, we remain a dominant military superpower, and when conflicts break out, one way or another we get pulled into them.
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In the past, progressive administrations have not been noted for raising military outlays as overseas conflicts wound down.
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But in many future conflicts the military operation was likely to cost less than the aftermath: training police, switching the lights back on, building democracy and so forth.
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Many Colombians are looking to Mr Uribe for a quick military solution to the country's conflicts.
"The military is always on the frontline in the conflicts here, " says Josy Palnaya, a Christian leader in Ambon, Maluku's provincial capital.
Coroners presiding over military inquests have developed specialist knowledge through the conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq and this must be retained, its supporters said.
Muslim rulers, from the Abbasids in the eighth century to the Mamluk sultanate in Egypt and the Ottomans, developed the institution of military slavery to lessen nepotism and the internal conflicts created by tribal loyalties.
And, perhaps most importantly, Mr Obama would focus more on the political side of international conflicts, rather than reaching immediately for military options.
The US military says 16 suspected Taliban were killed in four different conflicts just this week.
As a result of these two major high-technology conflicts waged in the past decade, Chinese military analysts generally recognize and accept that some type of revolution in warfare is afoot.
Evidence provided by the Iraqi incursion that this country may still face formidable adversaries far from home, equipped with modern military capabilities, should put to rest arguments that such conflicts are things of the past and that sophisticated, jam-resistant C3 systems like MILSTAR are no longer necessary.
Paris, April 3 - From Bamyan to Jerusalem or Sarajevo, in the past few years cultural heritage has often been a military target or the flashpoint of political, ethnic and religious conflicts.
The Air Force discussions are focused more on whether the military's drone fleet is the right size and composition for future conflicts.
Some military officials fret about the U.S. becoming embroiled in several simultaneous conflicts.
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"Recent Mexican army and police force conflicts with heavily armed narcotics cartels have escalated to levels equivalent to military small-unit combat and have included use of machine guns and fragmentation grenades, " said the warning issued last month.
The Europeans seem increasingly determined to reshape conflicts and rebuild nations throughout the Middle East and Africa without possessing the military force to do so.
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Military officers and diplomats in mid-career were sent there to sort out simulated conflicts, from the first explosion of violence to the passing of resolutions in the Security Council and the imposition of a ceasefire.
Some critics went further, arguing that a narrow focus on the requirements to conduct two nearly identical major conflicts came at the expense of efforts to transform the U.S. military.
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Over the past 20 years, the size of the U.S. military has declined by 50 percent while its activity level has increased fourfold, excluding recent conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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