It is essential to build up the military option and show that this is not a bluff.

重要的是准备军事解决途径来证明这并不是虚张声势。

《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

The question is this: are there military operations that great Powers, even the greatest of the great Powers at any given time, should not undertake?

这个问题是：是否存在强国——即使它是有史以来最强大的国家——不该采取的军事行动？

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This theorem is contained in a book writtenin the late third-century AD by a mathematician called Sun Tzu (not to beconfused with the military strategist of the same name).

中国剩余定理记载在一本由数学家孙子编写的书籍中（不要把他和与他同名的军事家孙子混淆了）。

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This is not the first time the military has done an offensive in the tribal region.

VOA: standard.2009.10.17

And this is not up to the military commanders.

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This is not to say the U.S. military is not exhibiting.

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The American military is generally much more reluctant to allow that, and to me, this shows that the American military is not an overwhelming presence in any of the actual combat situations that are happening now.

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