Or are they, as supporters profess, cost-effective platforms essential to achieving critical foreign policy and security objectives?
At that time, they will provide a fresh assessment of the situation in Iraq and of the troop levels and resources we need to meet our national security objectives.
While the experience of Guantanamo has taught the U.S. some lessons in considering public opinion while in pursuit of security objectives, Israel has been slow to apply those lessons.
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Mr. Panetta will need these career intelligence officers to best advise the new president on the CIA capabilities at his disposal to support critical foreign policy and national security objectives.
Although the instinct to husband the resource is understandable given past and recent geopolitical volatility, foregoing significant exports is both unnecessary and ultimately would undermine the very energy security objectives sought by advocates of a large strategic reserve.
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Any instance of surging security sector assistance to meet unforeseen urgent and emergent needs or opportunities should be incorporated into a broader United States Government strategy to sustain any new capacity, mitigate potential negative impacts on other national security objectives, and achieve longer-term U.S. goals and objectives.
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Such standards will be aided by a requirement for measurable security sector assistance objectives, appropriate data collection of the impacts and results of security sector assistance programs, and improved efforts to inform decision-making processes with data on what works and what does not work through impact evaluations when permissible.
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Core U.S. national security interests and objectives have changed very little since the end of the Cold War and the formulation of the two-theater-war sizing construct.
And we will not, and nor would any responsible Canadian prime minister, ever leave this mission until we are successful in achieving its security and its development objectives.
For example, in March 2012, the Secretary of State issued Policy Guidance on Promoting Gender Equality to Achieve our National Security and Foreign Policy Objectives, and the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) Administrator released Gender Equality and Female Empowerment Policy.
Both, the generic as well as the specific definitional objectives of cyber security appear to be reasonable.
Still, way back in 1979, it revised its objectives to reduce dependence on oil, and its current objectives include energy security, environmental protection, and economic growth.
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What matters here are the economic and geopolitical benefits from (a) not having to design military and foreign policy objectives based on energy security to the degree the US has over the last 30 years, and (b) being able to reap the growth, employment and current account benefits of domestically sourced-oil and natural gas.
Furthermore, policymakers will have to formulate a coherent public diplomacy effort to explain the relationship between the private security sector and U.S. military and foreign policy objectives, due to the increasingly negative media perception of the private security industry.
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We work very closely with our Pakistani counterparts and we are very clear about what our objectives are in terms of American national security interests.
It is essential to the fulfillment of our objectives there that we are able to transfer security lead to the Afghans gradually over the course of the next months, until no later than the end of 2014 that they take over full security lead.
And he will make his decision based on the need to succeed further in achieving those objectives and to transfer authority gradually -- security authority over to the Afghan national security forces, with an eye to the fact that, as agreed to by NATO in Lisbon, we will eventually transfer full security lead over the ANSF in 2014.
And, the lawmakers said, the British government should refocus its objectives in Afghanistan and concentrate on one priority: security.
We face both conventional and emerging security threats, and commit to act together based on our 2011 Common Strategic Objectives in addressing global challenges such as terrorism, proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, and piracy.
Now, if 401k plan sponsors had truly found a way to meet the stated objectives of these plans, i.e. providing for the retirement security of their participants, these attitudes might be justified.
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Though the personal preference of the security officer might be that virtual systems are not used, that security officer must recognize that there will always be risk associated with meeting the business objectives.
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And it is a policy that is very clear-eyed about what our objectives are and what can be achieved in Afghanistan overall versus what our national security interests very specifically are.
She said it was "widely accepted" that the current policy had failed to achieve its objectives and told MPs it was essential that a reformed policy addressed the issue of food security.
The Center for Security Policy believes that the United States must act now -- if necessary unilaterally -- to achieve these objectives.
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For example, there are 189 ISO standards for information security, our National Institute of Standards and Technology ( NIST) has produced a full set of world-class materials on information security, and the Information Systems Audit and Control Association ( ISACA) has developed its best practices, the Control Objectives for Information Technology ( CobiT).
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