Help


[permalink] [id link]
+
Page "People's Liberation Army Navy" ¶ 40
from Wikipedia
Edit
Promote Demote Fragment Fix

Some Related Sentences

new and strategic
-- Engaging mature, experienced men to pioneer or open new churches in strategic population centers.
The strategic significance of the strait was one of the factors in the decision of the Roman Emperor Constantine the Great to found there in AD 330 his new capital, Constantinople, which came to be known as the capital of the Eastern Roman Empire.
After World War II, the generals of the newly-formed U. S. Air Force propounded a new doctrine: that strategic bombing, particularly with nuclear weapons, was the sole decisive element necessary to win any future war ; and was therefore the sole means necessary to deter an adversary from launching a Pearl Harbor like surprise attack or war against the United States.
This overlooked Germany's strategic position and ignored how the efforts of individuals were somewhat marginalized on the front, since the belligerents were engaged in a new kind of war.
However, in 1942, with the entry of Japan into the Second World War, the island gained a strategic importance in the Indian Ocean and thus the British government hastily built a new airport in the south of the island at Plaisance.
As the Ghibellines intended their fortress to be a strategic military stronghold and center of control for the area, they set about creating a settlement around the base of the Rock to support the garrison ; in an attempt to lure residents from Genoa and the surrounding cities, they offered land grants and tax exemption to new settlers.
In June 1996, Henry Wallace was appointed President, and he set about restructuring Mazda and setting it on a new strategic direction.
The first Piasts reinforced their rule by burning local strongholds and replacing them with new larger fortresses, located in strategic positions.
For most of the period between 2002 and 2005, the FARC-EP was believed to be in a strategic withdrawal due to the increasing military and police actions of new president Álvaro Uribe, which led to the capture or desertion of many fighters and medium-level commanders.
Serendipity is used as a sociological method in Anselm L. Strauss ' and Barney G. Glaser's Grounded Theory, building on ideas by sociologist Robert K. Merton, who in Social Theory and Social Structure ( 1949 ) referred to the " serendipity pattern " as the fairly common experience of observing an unanticipated, anomalous and strategic datum which becomes the occasion for developing a new theory or for extending an existing theory.
The new strategic thinking found its place in the proposed Joint Emergency War Plan codenamed “ Halfmoon ”, which called for the dropping of fifty atomic bombs on twenty cities in the Soviet Union.
Some time later Teller used similar language in a letter to Paul Nitze, who was preparing a new round of strategic limitations talks, stating that " A single x-ray laser module the size of an executive desk ... could potentially shoot down the entire Soviet land-based missile force ..."
The proposal was incorporated in a new party-wide strategic plan and a joint platform-program committee proposed a reformatted project platform that isolated talking points on issues, principles and solutions, and an array of projects for adaptation.
He constructs a new strategic fortress to guard the frontier.
As the Cold War began, the United States faced a new strategic threat in the rise of the Soviet nuclear weapons program.
* Decreases the time it takes to create strategic or operational changes by communicating the changes through a new set of goals
Following the loss of Britain's ports in thirteen of its former continental colonies, Bermuda was also used as a stop-over point between Canada and Britain's Caribbean possessions, and assumed a new strategic prominence for the Royal Navy.
CoSGOP introduced a new approach characterized by communication with and active involvement of stakeholders and those to be affected by the program ; strategic planning based on the identification of strengths and weakness, opportunities and threats, as well as on scenario-building and visioning ; the definition of goals as the basis for action ; and long-term, flexible programming of interventions by stakeholders.
Reform of the Royal Navy was also suggested, partly due to the ever-increasing Naval Estimates, and because of the emergence of the Imperial German Navy as a new strategic threat.
Ultimately a dispute arose between Admiral Lord Charles Beresford, who favoured increased spending and a broad deployment, and the First Sea Lord Admiral Sir John Fisher, who favoured efficiency savings, scrapping obsolete vessels, and a strategic realignment of the Royal Navy relying on torpedo craft for home defence backed by the new dreadnoughts.
For the first few years, this rebellion posed no economic or strategic threat to the new masters of Iberia, whose seat of power had been established at Cordoba.
Chandigarh, a role model for the third world to follow, defined a new strategic approach to counter the tobacco industry to achieve clean air and health for all people.
Although the city existed only on paper, the territorial legislature voted on November 28 in favor of Madison as its capital, largely because of its location halfway between the new and growing cities around Milwaukee in the east and the long established strategic post of Prairie du Chien in the west, and between the highly populated lead mining regions in the southwest and Wisconsin's oldest city, Green Bay in the northeast.
From the perspective of others, however, the proposed airborne units had a key weakness: they required exactly the same resources as the new strategic bomber capability, another high priority, and would also compete with the badly stretched strategic air lift capability, essential to Churchill's strategy in the Far East.

new and threats
With no serious external or internal threats, the armed forces are searching for a new role.
The Nazi assassins in Vienna, after declaring the formation of a new government under Austrian Nazi Anton Rintelen, previously exiled by Dollfuss as Austrian Ambassador to Rome, surrendered after threats from Austrian military of blowing up the Chancellery using dynamite, and were subsequently tried and executed through hanging.
The novel is pessimistic ; industrialism and capitalism have killed the best of Old England, and there were great, new external threats.
The business environment is constantly changing and new threats and vulnerability emerge every day.
Marxist-Leninists believe that without a transitionary period of state control ( their interpretation of the dictatorship of the proletariat ) it would be impossible for any revolution to maintain the momentum or cohesion to defend the new society against external and internal threats.
In the business sector, concerns include the expected increased cost of doing business, threats to profitability, rising levels of unemployment ( and subsequent higher government expenditure on welfare benefits raising tax rates ), and the possible knock-on effects to the wages of more experienced workers who might already be earning the new statutory minimum wage, or slightly more.
During this period threats to the Ottoman Empire were presented by the traditional foe — the Austrian Empire — as well as by a new foe — the rising Russian Empire.
Also, captures can greatly alter the state of the board, so players should beware the potential for captures to bring new life to the opponent's old threats, or to invalidate formations that a player is trying to create.
The growing threats of the 1930s brought new criticism from younger writers of " what the last lot had done ( Bloomsbury, Modernism, Eliot ) in favour of what they thought of as urgent hard-hitting realism "; while " Wyndham Lewis's The Apes of God, which called Bloomsbury élitist, corrupt and talentless, caused a stir " of its own.
The international Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety deals primarily with the agricultural definition but many advocacy groups seek to expand it to include post-genetic threats: new molecules, artificial life forms, and even robots which may compete directly in the natural food chain.
When biological warfare or new, currently hypothetical, threats ( i. e., robots, new artificial bacteria ) are considered, biosafety precautions are generally not sufficient.
The new field of biosecurity addresses these complex threats.
At the same time, emerging scientific research drew new attention to existing and hypothetical threats to the environment and humanity.
Western nations view Russian bellicosity and belligerence as having markedly increased as of late, with tests of new nuclear-capable missiles occurring on a regular basis, military conflicts with neighboring states, claims of a Russian " sphere of influence " on the perimeter of the old Soviet Union, the rise of ultra-nationalist " Putin Youth " groups, aggressive politicization of and threats of withdrawal of natural gas supplies to Europe should the Europeans not make certain policy concessions, and even threats of a nuclear first strike against Poland have been heard to be made by certain Russian generals.
Paul Wolfowitz, the military analyst for the United States Department of Defense under Ronald Reagan, had formulated a new foreign policy with regard to Iraq and other " potential aggressor states ", dismissing " containment " in favor of " preemption ", with the goal of striking first to eliminate threats.
In response to the failed sanctions against Austria following a coalition including Jörg Haider's party having come to power, and fears about possible future threats to the stability of the new member states to be admitted in enlargement, the Treaty of Nice for the first time adopted formal rules for the application of sanctions against a Member State.
The novel is pessimistic, with its view that speculative builders, commercialism and capitalism are killing the best of rural England, " everything cemented over ", and there are great new external threats.
Bush ordered the " Base Force " study which forecast a substantial cut in the military budget, an end to the Soviet Union's global threat, and the possible beginning of new regional threats.
This includes threats to the environment, the impacts of developments and changes in land use, international environmental matters and new legislation.
Despite some ugly threats and several demonstrations against the project, Morgan College was allowed to be constructed at the new site and later expand.
In August 1805, Napoleon, Emperor of the French since December of the previous year, turned his army's sights from the English Channel to the Rhine in order to deal with the new Austrian and Russian threats.

0.132 seconds.