The possibility of STP becoming a major oil producer, following the discovery of oil reserves, has also elevated the small island state, traditionally a sleepy backwater, into an entity with potential strategic significance in the Gulf of Guinea.

While much smaller than the arsenals of the US and the USSR, Western Europe's nuclear reserves were nevertheless a significant factor in strategic planning during the Cold War.

The lack of reserves for the army led to a recruitment crisis, which accentuated the strategic and morale impact of the defeat ; but it is also clear that Adrianople did not mark the end of the Roman Empire, because the imperial military power was only temporarily crippled.

Iraq also could provide strategic oil reserves.

In 1995, the second World Congress of Biosphere Reserves held in Seville formally defined and designated a set of objectives and procedures governing the recognition of potential biosphere reserves based on this strategic thrust ( Seville Strategy and the International Guidelines ).

For other countries see global strategic petroleum reserves

* Global strategic petroleum reserves

* Military infrastructure, including military bases, arms depots, training facilities, command centers, communication facilities, major weapons systems, fortifications, specialised arms manufacturing, strategic reserves

* Deciding what countries it should buy petroleum from in stocking its strategic reserves.

Although the operation had failed to achieve its tactical objectives, Montgomery was pleased with the strategic benefits in the commitment and fixing of the German armoured reserves to the Caen sector.

Major General Suharto, commander of the Army's strategic reserves, took control of the army the following morning.

The vast reserves of the leading Middle East producers guaranteed the region its strategic importance, but the politics of oil still proves dangerous for all concerned to this day.

Drawing upon its vast holdings, it became the world leader in the production of oil, iron ore, manganese, and asbestos ; it had the world's largest proven reserves of natural gas as well as coal, iron ore, timber, gold, manganese, lead, zinc, nickel, mercury, potash, phosphates, and most strategic minerals.

Due to insufficient forces, Poland's 200-mile-long front was manned by a thin line of 120, 000 troops backed by some 460 artillery pieces with no strategic reserves.

Even before the department was formally established, Howe's representatives were surveying the country for essential war needs, with the department soon accumulating huge reserves of strategic materials.

The key point was the shoulder of the bulge at Mogontiacum ( Mainz ) where the masse de manoevre or strategic reserves were located.

Although in real terms oil prices fell back to pre-1973 levels through the 1980s, resulting in a windfall for the oil-consuming nations ( especially North America, Western Europe, and Japan ), the vast reserves of the leading Middle East producers guaranteed the region its strategic importance.

The Soviet strategic reserves were not detected.

Further back there were no strategic reserves other than some " Depot Regiments ", not organised as fighting units, and scattered garrisons and line of communication units.

Since FORCE strategic reserves have been committed to the war in the Hyperion system, the first wave of worlds threatened by the Ouster invasion seem destined to fall.

The eight hour delay gave time for the Italians to consolidate their remaining Eritrean forces together with strategic reserves ( which had travelled for three days without stopping from Addis Abbaba ) at Keren and then blow the cliff into the gorge which provided the only road access to the Keren plateau from the west.

After a successful winter counter-offensive that drove German troops away from Moscow, and also depleted the Red Army's reserves, the Kharkov offensive was a new Soviet attempt to expand upon their strategic initiative, although it failed to secure a significant element of surprise.

Still according to Zhukov, the main reason for the stinging Soviet defeat lay in the mistakes made by Stalin, who underestimated the danger coming from German armies in the southwestern sector ( as opposed to the Moscow sector ) and failed to take steps to concentrate any substantial strategic reserves there to meet any potential German threat.

Three levels of forces were announced ; constant readiness, low-level, and strategic reserves.

" Sue Talley, Apple's manager of strategic planning in education, said of the Classic: " we see it going into applications where you need a fair number of powerful stations, but where color is not a big issue.

World War I demonstrated that aircraft could be an important part of the battlefield, but in some nations it was the prospect of strategic air attack that was the main issue, presenting both a threat and an opportunity.

When agreement was finally reached on an important strategic issue, the agreement was reduced to writing in a document called a Central Agreement and signed by both Chiefs of Army and Navy General Staffs.

Layton's campaign direction also caused a break between him and Canadian Auto Workers union head Buzz Hargrove over the issue of strategic voting.

Westmoreland wrote in his memoir that Wheeler had deliberately concealed the truth of the matter in order to force the issue of the strategic reserve upon the President.

Though logical consistency, factual accuracy and some degree of emotional appeal to the audience are important elements of the art of persuasion, in debating, one side often prevails over the other side by presenting a superior " context " and / or framework of the issue, which is far more subtle and strategic.

The second issue Portal had to resolve was the need for a renewed strategic bombing offensive.

In March 1986, negotiations between the US and the Soviet Union resumed, covering not only the INF issue but also separate discussions on strategic weapons ( START I ) and space issues ( NST ).

In order to simplify the issue, academic attention sometimes focuses on a specific kind of strategic nomination: the kind that involves clones.

Its issue became a strategic turnover as both sides wanted to emerge as the victor and forge a favorable position for the planned negotiations about “ the Indochinese problem ”.

Since that time, Chernushenko has been critical of Ms May's leadership of the party, and has publicly spoken out about her mixed messages surrounding strategic voting in the 2008 federal election, an issue that some party insiders blamed for the Greens ' lower-than-expected results in that election.

APCCCR saw the issue of participating or boycotting elections as a tactical issue, whereas AICCCR saw as a strategic one.

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Another strategic issue was that the cost of computing was steadily going down while the costs of programming and operations, being made of personnel costs, were steadily going up.

" Britain's initial strategic exclusion of others from northern access to a Persian Gulf port in the creation of Kuwait by treaty as a protected, subsidized client state showed political recognition of the importance of the issue.

Then, an issue of arms control could be addressed and tension diminished while maintaining the status quo in other strategic areas.

After raising its share capital in 2004 by issuing convertible bonds to four strategic partners to raise about AED 1 billion, FGB will double its equity capital in 2005 with a rights issue for existing shareholders.

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Sometimes, the team captain will offer advice or even issue a direct order regarding what deliveries to bowl, based on his observations of the batsman and the strategic state of the game.

However, the area is being claimed by many investors in order to urbanize it for residential and commercial use which if happened will utilize that strategic location, an example would be Ghannam 4 ( Airport Jewel ) which is the first and only urbanization attempt that had taken place before is was stopped due to involvement in the issue of Aramco Reservations which is the reason why the airport is still far away from the city.

* Ministry of strategic threats ; Avigdor Lieberman's arrival in the Israeli cabinet is symptomatic of the degradation of the country's political system, 1 November 2006, Al-Ahram Weekly, issue 818

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