From next year the Force Licorne, a 450-strong peacekeeping operation in Ivory Coast, will be beefed up and rebadged as a more robust force of some 800 troops.
For Toyota, it's a chance to curry favor in the California and larger US market, for Tesla, the car maker gets Toyota's technology & resources to help it transition from a highly niche player to a more robust force in the domestic auto market.
"The internet will be a much more robust force in China because offline businesses are much less efficient," argues Duncan Clark of BDA, a telecoms consultancy in Beijing.Except in big cities near the coast, conventional retailing is fragmented and underdeveloped.
But the UN must keep pressing for a much bigger and more robust force under its own command.
Despite its caution, France along with Spain has been privately approaching governments with U.N. peacekeepers to see whether they would be prepared to serve in a more robust European force, according to a senior diplomat.
He backed the idea of a more robust international force, but only after "all the issues" were put on the table, and he stopped short of condemning Hezbollah for inviting the Israeli attacks on the rest of the country.
After 34 days of warfare, the latest resolution, 1701, repeats the goals of 1559 but provides more teeth, including a more robust United Nations force of up to 15,000 soldiers that is supposed to patrol a specific southern demilitarized zone and help the government monitor its borders, ensuring that Iran and Syria do not resupply Hezbollah with rockets, missiles and ammunition.
According to this logic Carswell's anti-Europe cause is advanced more effectively by a defeat for Cameron at the election, followed by a realignment on the right that would eventually lead to a more robust governing force committed to pulling out of the EU.
In other areas of Iraq that have endured greater violence, a more robust "transition task force" is being used.
The US president's firm words came as Nato countries were preparing to commit to a more robust rapid-response force for the region, in response to Russia's incursion in Ukraine.
Four days later, however, the foreign ministers of the two powers leading the combat operation Britain and France called for the organisation to fulfil the UN mandate to protect civilians with a more robust use of force.There are limits.
