While this may well be true in general, I believe it is also important to keep in mind that some recent developments suggest that over the next year or so military electronics may be one of the most strongly growing areas in an economy which is not expanding rapidly in other directions.

While accounts of the progress of the tsunami came in from various points in the Pacific ( Midway reported it was covered with nine feet of water ), the Hawaiian station made its calculations and notified the military services and the police that the first big wave would arrive at Honolulu at 23:30 Greenwich time.

While the issue of military funding was perhaps the most obvious explanation for Grothendieck's departure from IHÉS, those who knew him say that the causes of the rupture ran deeper.

While these vehicles might be useful in a direct fire role, none were developed with this specifically in mind, reminiscent of the use of tank destroyers by the US military in the assault gun role during WWII.

While most Anabaptists adhered to a literal interpretation of the Sermon on the Mount which precluded taking oaths, participating in military actions, and participating in civil government, some who practiced re-baptism felt contrariwise.

While the British military historian Sir John Keegan suggested an ideal definition of battle as " something which happens between two armies leading to the moral then physical disintegration of one or the other of them ", the origins and outcomes of battles can rarely be summarized so neatly.

While containment of biological warfare transmission is less of a concern for certain criminal or terrorist organizations, it remains a significant concern for the military and civilian populations of virtually all nations.

While visiting Beijing in 1970 Sihanouk was ousted by a military coup led by Prime Minister General Lon Nol and Prince Sisowath Sirik Matak in the early hours of March 18, 1970.

While Clausewitz was intensely aware of the value of intelligence at all levels, he was also very skeptical of the accuracy of much military intelligence: " Many intelligence reports in war are contradictory ; even more are false, and most are uncertain ....

While serving in the military, Brubeck met Paul Desmond in early 1944.

While Titus received a court education in the company of Britannicus, Vespasian pursued a successful political and military career.

While the vassal performed military service in exchange for the fief, the peasant performed physical labour in return for protection.

While Hannibal is mentioned in the company of history's greatest generals, military professionals have bestowed Fabius ' name on an entire strategic doctrine known as " Fabian strategy ", and George Washington has been called " the American Fabius.

While the conflict has been called by some " The War of the Amateurs ", the White Army had two major advantages over the Red Guards in the war: the professional military leadership of General Mannerheim and his staff — which included 84 Swedish volunteer officers and former Finnish officers of the Tsar's army — and 1, 450 soldiers of the 1, 900-strong, elite " Jäger " battalion.

While there were wide needs for accurate navigation in military and civilian sectors, almost none of those were seen as justification for the billions of dollars it would cost in research, development, deployment, and operation for a constellation of navigation satellites.

While modern M16s and equipment are standard issue, much of the secondary equipment used by the Ghanaian military is generally older than that used in Western military forces, and Ghanaian troops frequently rely on British, Brazilian, Swiss, Swedish, Israeli, and Finnish weaponry.

While on 5 June, several major politicians ( Baciro Dabo, Faustino Imbali and Helder Proenca ) were shot dead, officially to counter a planned coup d ' État against the temporary military leadership.

While the states issued their own decorations, and some had their own armies, the military forces of the smaller ones were put under Prussian control.

While playing football at PJC, Robinson suffered a fractured ankle, complications from which would eventually delay his deployment status while in the military.

While military efforts were directed to the East, the situation in Italy took a turn for the worse.

While bound to the stretcher his picture was taken by American military personnel.

While the sale of the territory by Spain back to France in 1800 went largely unnoticed, fear of an eventual French invasion spread nationwide when, in 1801, Napoleon sent a military force to secure New Orleans.

While monetary and military Libyan support for the Sahrawi cause dwindled in the mid-1980s, after a rapprochement with Morocco, the enemy of Polisario, some Sahrawi refugee students are still able to apply for higher education in Libya.

While a professor of psychology at the University of Chicago ( 1945 – 57 ), Rogers helped to establish a counseling center connected with the university and there conducted studies to determine the effectiveness of his methods.

While in-role performance tells managers or researchers how well the employee performs the required technical aspects of the job, extra-role performance includes behaviors not necessarily required as part of the job but still contribute to organizational effectiveness.

While the two drugs mentioned above are available over the counter in most countries, the effectiveness of these agents may decrease over time, and the incidence of next-day sedation is higher than for most of the newer prescription drugs.

While indomethacin has historically been the most commonly used NSAID, an alternative, such as ibuprofen, may be preferred due to its better side effect profile in the absence of superior effectiveness.

While polls attributed Davis ' declining popularity to the energy and budget problems, some newspaper articles and commentators have identified other issues that limited his effectiveness and political appeal.

While placebo-controlled trials might provide information about the effectiveness of a treatment, it denies some patients what could be the best available ( if unproven ) treatment.

While not all action figures include accessories, the additional items often prove essential to characters and their effectiveness as interactive toys.

While it seems intuitively obvious that high-visibility clothing should make its wearer easier for vehicle operators, hunters, etc., to see and avoid, there are surprisingly few studies to quantify the effectiveness of high-visibility clothing for particular classes of users.

While all martial arts training can be argued to have some self-defense applications, self-defence courses are marketed explicitly as being oriented towards effectiveness and optimized towards situations as they occur in the real world.

While MIT is a commonly used therapy, research supporting its effectiveness is relatively lacking.

While physical proximity cannot be achieved when people are connected virtually, perceived proximity can be attempted, and several studies have shown that it is a crucial indicator in the effectiveness of virtual communication technologies.

While the packaging of melatonin often warns against use in children, at least one long-term study does assess effectiveness and safety in children.

While it is possible to add substances such as vanadium to the catalyst washcoat to combat sulfur-oxide formation, such addition will reduce the effectiveness of the catalyst.

While earned run average ( ERA ) measures the runs a pitcher gives up, WHIP more directly measures a pitcher's effectiveness against the batters faced.

While such tactics increase the combat effectiveness of the submarine and improve its chances of survival, they are considered by some to be a breach of the rules of war, especially when employed against neutral country vessels in a war zone.

' While these are valid concerns, and have been found to be problematic in some situations, especially with the highly suggestible, TPM has had a measure of effectiveness in helping people work through their traumatic histories.

While the bad weather and heavy anti-aircraft curtailed the effectiveness of the pathfinder teams on D-Day, the overall airborne drop was a success.

While this procedure is believed to close the RC4 key scheduling vulnerability, its effectiveness has not been proven.

While the LAPD traditionally had been a " lean and mean " department compared with other American police forces ( a point of pride for Parker ), traffic congestion and continually decreasing officer-to-resident ratios ( approximately 7, 000 police officers for 3, 000, 000 residents in 1978 ) combined with the massive demographic take-over of hostile black, hispanic, and asian communities, diminished the effectiveness of LAPD's prized mobility and community response.

While it is difficult to measure the effectiveness of such a subjective term, soldiers who reported in a WWII study that they had a " higher than average " sense of comradery and pride in their unit were more likely to report themselves ready for combat and less likely to fall victim to CSR or other stress disorders.

While this limits the effectiveness of the dual-coding theory, it is still valid over a wide range of circumstances and can be used to improve memory ( Reed, 2010 ).

While key reform objectives, e. g., leanness and effectiveness, were not achieved due to more than doubling its administrative structures ( see the Before and After diagram below ), the reform created a major cluster of four organizations to provide support services to donors.

While tape gags can be combined with stuff gags for extra effectiveness, it is easy for one to choke on the stuffing inside of the mouth.

While troops praised its effectiveness, the M67 came in for heavy criticism due to the weapon's weight and length as well as its backblast, which often precluded its use in offensive operations.