What role are long-range manned bombers expected to play in U.S. power projection in the future?
Critics have often cited exactly these threats when calling into question the utility and survivability of the Navy's most effective power projection platform, its aircraft carriers.
Security analysts have noted a marked shift in India's acquisitions of military hardware, from conventional land-based systems to means of power projection such as airborne refuelling systems and long-range missiles.
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That can mean only one thing: Power projection.
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As Mark points out, the Russian navy, and its Mediterranean patrols, are more about prestige than actual power projection and its relationships with Syria and Iran can be useful, but only up to a certain degree.
Such an outcome would give China far greater power projection in the East and South China Seas -- through which flow much of East Asia's trade, including the bulk of Japan and South Korea's oil imports.
The obvious, and probably growing, need for the kind of power projection made possible by C-17 airlifters should compel a careful reassessment of the defense industrial base's capacity to meet such needs over the long haul.
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Bill Clinton, who is not French, and who came into office calling for the discontinuance of heavy echelons in favor of power projection, simultaneously pressed for a severe reduction in aircraft carriers, the sine qua non of power projection.
Still, this summary sets forth a number of points that appeared to be generally agreed -- and that bear directly upon pending executive and legislative branch decisions concerning the future contribution of the U.S. manned bomber force to the nation's power projection capabilities.
"A genuine strategic air power must possess a strong power projection capability, which is highly reliant on large aircraft, namely a strategic air freighter and a strategic bomber, " said Wang Yanan, deputy editor in chief at Aerospace Knowledge magazine and a military analyst, in a China Daily report.
Examples of an expeditionary approach to warfighting that drew upon such infrastructure include Kosovo, a case of power projection within a region, in pursuit of regional stability and in concert with regional allies, and Afghanistan, a case of global power projection, in which forces flowed into Central Asia from US, European, and Asian theaters.
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But for the insistence of the Marine Corps that this aircraft was essential if it were to retain -- indeed, to increase dramatically -- its combat lift and power projection capabilities despite the approaching block obsolescence of it existing inventory of medium lift helicopters, and the indefatigable support of visionary congressional leaders, there would be no production aircraft on display at the Pentagon tomorrow.
We got to check out those 14 lumens of projection power in a dimly lit room, and came away with a pair of impressions.
With national security policy unalterably attached to the principles of rapid deployment and the distant projection of power, the idea that our military can make due with less airlift and still complete its missions is unsustainable.
However, the US freely admits that this is as much a problem of law as it is about the projection of military power.
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Thus, the projection of military power could become hostage to the ability to counter long-range systems even as U.S. forces begin to move into a theater of operations and against an opponent.
She would also appreciate its importance in the projection of American power in Asia and beyond as much of the nation's long-range transport aircraft supplying our military operations around the world transit through Elmendorf.
During the Bush years, the so-called neoconservative camp believed it had formulated the means of convincing an American electorate dominated by the leftist media to support the projection of American power in the Islamic world.
But critics say Galileo is more about the projection of European political power and prestige on the global stage, than any hard commercial benefits.
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With rare exceptions (George W. Bush's administration), the United States tends to be more deliberate and reactive in the projection of its military power because it has greater discretion.
It was clear that there was an imbalance in the projection and focus of American power.
States with the strongest projection for water-cooled concentrated solar power plants and capacity (more than 15 sites each) are California, Idaho, Montana, and Wyoming.
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