This topic takes on such importance only partly because of the strategic significance of the People's Republic of China.
Such ABM-related activities take on even greater strategic significance against the back-drop of a wide array of other Soviet defensive measures.
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Over the past 32 years, since the establishment of diplomatic ties, the China-U.S. relationship has grown into one with strategic significance and global influence.
The decision to enable the Soviet Union to obtain a comprehensive microelectronics manufacturing capability is, to put it mildly, one of extraordinary strategic significance.
That said, what would be the strategic significance of the J-20, given that by then the US will field hundreds of fifth generation fighters?
Likewise, Indonesia's new creditworthiness has less to do with fiscal rectitude than with its newly found strategic significance as part of America's war on terror.
At the time, the media worked with Kadima to suppress information about the strategic significance of Hamas's electoral victory in the January 2006 Palestinian Authority elections.
Of even greater strategic significance can be the vulnerability of civilian populations particularly those in proximity to the battle zone, but also those well behind the lines.
With the strait-jacket of the Cold War removed, all sorts of tensions were released and, while its strategic significance can be debated, the economic shift to Asia is an accelerating reality.
Yet since the Taliban war effort relies on civilian infrastructures and human shields, the strategic significance of preventing civilian casualties is that US forces' ability to fight the Taliban is dramatically circumscribed.
What has been little noted is the strategic significance of the nature of Hamas's relations with the PLO-Fatah from the establishment of the PA in 1994 until Hamas ousted it from Gaza in 2007.
And once they did finally report that Jews were being targeted, they made every effort to downplay the strategic significance of the jihadists' decision to send a team off the beaten path simply to butcher Jews.
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Olmert's failure to stop weapons smuggling into Gaza at the Philadelphi corridor and his attempt to obfuscate this failure by exaggerating the strategic significance of the reported IAF strikes in Sudan are his stock in trade.
Two other sections of S.1712 create worrisome loopholes: Section 204 allows the re-export of any product if the controlled U.S. content amounts to 25% or less of the value (not the strategic significance) of the product.
Despite Grand Central's strategic significance, however, a bucket of sand tipped into one of these converters would have been enough to bring the terminal -- and 80% of the country's eastbound military movement -- to a standstill.
Jones's report, which rejected all Israeli claims in Judea and Samaria and underplayed the strategic significance of Palestinian rejection of Israel's right to exist, was viewed as deeply hostile toward Israel, and the Olmert government prevailed on the Bush administration to set it aside.
This will be of considerable strategic significance provided the dismantling of the East German army and integration of 50, 000 of its officers (roughly half of the total) and enlisted personnel into the Bundeswer do not wind up greatly reducing the integrity and reliability of those German forces assigned to NATO.
If Netanyahu appoints Natan Sharansky foreign minister and Moshe "Bogie" Ya'alon defense minister, he will have the top-level support he needs to overcome his predecessors' legacy and change the nature of contemporary discourse on the Palestinians and on Israel's strategic significance to the West in the face of staunch opposition from Washington.
Only by do doing can the nation be spared the sort of trauma that ensued after the Tonkin Gulf Resolution a trauma that, if anything, may be of vastly greater strategic significance if it winds up not just killing American soldiers but promoting a false peace in the Middle East and contributing to new, possibly mortal perils for our most important ally there, Israel.
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Only by do doing can the nation be spared the sort of trauma that ensued after the Tonkin Gulf Resolution -- a trauma that, if anything, may be of vastly greater strategic significance if it winds up not just killing American soldiers but promoting a false peace in the Middle East and contributing to new, possibly mortal perils for our most important ally there, Israel.
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In fact, it should be borne in mind that the repressive elements within China's leadership, notably Li Peng, have long been influenced by the Soviet Union. (Li received some 15 years of political education and training in the Soviet Union.) Should the anti-democratic forces in China prevail, the USSR could realize a long-sought foreign policy realignment that would trivialize the strategic significance of its recent reverses in Afghanistan, Poland and elsewhere.
The Arctic's importance has gained extra strategic and economic significance as melting ice in the polar region strengthens the feasibility of nations to use the Northern Sea Route (NSR) across the top of Russia and the Northwest Passage through Canada's Arctic archipelago.
Venture Connects is a business built around the significance of strategic connections.
This is not an abstract, philosophical, academic point, but a strategic purpose of great practical significance.
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C. but the national security community and the Congress to reject this "fire-sale" of an asset with immeasurable significance for the Nation's future strategic interests and economic competitiveness.
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The significance of the US's descent into strategic irrationality bodes ill not just for US allies, but for America itself.
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The short-run focus of most Department of Energy funding misses the main strategic imperative: We need alternatives that can scale to significance long-term without subsidies, and we need a lot more North American oil and gas in the meantime.
Indeed, the Center for Security Policy believes it is difficult to overstate the significance that this transaction could have for enhancing Soviet strategic command, control and communications (C3) capabilities.
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