Still, measuring budgets, deployments, and sea and air "platforms" does not quite indicate just how much the ground is shifting beneath our feet.
Speaking after a meeting of Nato defence ministers in Brussels, Fallon said: "Backed by a rising defence budget this deployment of air, land and sea forces shows that we will continue to play a leading role in Nato, supporting the defence and security of our allies from the north to the south of the alliance".
"The administration continues to say it is bolstering the military presence in Asia, but if sequestering takes place you have to believe it will affect budgets and deployments in Asia-Pacific," said Bonnie Glaser, a delegate and senior fellow of the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington.
The solution that's right for your business will depend on specific performance, deployment, budget and security objectives.
The compact mooring method realizes considerable budget savings through deployments from non-research vessels and airborne transportation-deployment. Limitations lay in size and weight of the oceanographic instruments.
Our staff and administrative leaders have supported the university through the difficult budgets cuts and deployment of a less-than-perfect new financial system.
Of particular concern to the developing nations are sections of Mr. Annan's report that give the secretary general new responsibilities in the budgeting and personnel deployment, which the General Assembly believes are exclusively its preserve.
A draft prison reform bill to be introduced in next month's Queen's speech on 18 May will set out the legal framework for new prisons with strong governors and a degree of autonomy over budgets and the deployment of staff.
Obviously, this attention to public relations often related to genuine principles and firm policy objectives — anti-Communism, reduced government, balanced budgets, support for deployment of the MX missile system, commitment to the right-wing contras in Nicaragua, dislike for Muammar el-Qaddafi of Libya and many more.
By the end of 2007, $22.4 billion was earmarked for the MRAP in the military spending budget, with the eventual deployment of about 15,400 vehicles.
This activist foreign policy is not new in France, which has a long history of sometimes dubious intervention on the African continent, and still has a capacity of deployment despite budget restrictions.
