The US and the Saudis have been strategic allies for upwards of 70 years.
For instance, until 1979, Iran was one of the US's closest strategic allies in the region.
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Like US military assistance to South Korea, which is part of the Pentagon's budget, US military assistance to Israel is a normal aspect of routine relations between the US and its strategic allies.
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The Allies constantly lost strategic pieces of real estate and frittered away elite forces trying to gain useless, oft-untakable objectives.
In such a strategic environment, America's allies will go their own way.
However, the strategic lessons for the Pentagon and our allies are just as profound.
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The allies' original interest in Berlin was strategic, not charitable.
Even his allies agree that Mr Erdogan made a strategic blunder by passing the headscarf law instead of blending it into a package of broader reforms embodied in a new constitution.
For reasons of both history and strategic prudence, the next administration should confer with our allies and Russia about its plans for missile defense, and seriously consider their views.
The new insurgent CSR leadership achieves this by identifying likeminded allies across the organization and providing them with the strategic vision and guidance that empowers them to take action on their own.
Would, for example, the damage be limited to a heightened sense of abandonment by the United States on the part of key allies, leaving in its wake concerns about a strategic power vacuum and the need to accommodate the Soviet Union or other threats?
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The Syrians have long used the camps as a sort of strategic waiting-room for groups that might come in handy as future allies or fall-guys.
"President Obama's reverse course decision will cost the American taxpayer more money and upset our allies, " said Representative Mike Rogers, who chairs the Strategic Forces Subcommittee of the House Armed Services Committee, which oversees ballistic missile defence.
Within a few years of defeating Germany and Japan, growing antagonism between the Western Allies and the Soviet Union and the ensuing Cold War resurrected the strategic requirement that U.S. forces be able to fight multiple, geographically dispersed, and possibly simultaneous conflicts.
As the United States moves to shore up its strategic position in the Middle East and to prepare for military contingencies on behalf of threatened allies there, the Center wishes to reiterate its view that a most urgent priority in such an effort must be the strengthening of U.S.-Israeli ties.
Obama ordered a strategic review of U.S. policy in Afghanistan and Pakistan and is soliciting input from allies, Biden said.
She reached out to allies, strengthened her network, and came up with a proposal that led to a new, strategic job in a different part of the organization.
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