One answer is to seek new roles: cyber-defence, and building ties with India and China.
The United States must invest more in building ties with Pakistan's people and strengthening its democracy.
Some military analysts said that building ties with generals was only part of building a leadership image on military issues.
Hiring reached a peak of 40 new recruits a day in 2007, it added, when it was also building ties with other technology companies to jointly develop services.
The mid-westerners have their liberal traits, but they have mostly steered a centrist course, building ties with local business, balancing state budgets and treading lightly on taxes.
If the opposition takes power, it may try to revive its old "sunshine policy" of building ties with North Korea through aid and exchanges, an approach favored by China.
The article cites evidence that the group is building ties with other terrorist organizations like Hezbollah as well as with traditional organized crime groups in India and elsewhere.
It would focus more effectively on building ties with emerging powers, notably China, India, Brazil and Indonesia, while maintaining its international aid and millennium development goal commitments.
Britain's ambassador to Washington, Kim Darroch, has suggested that in building ties with Trump, May will want to emulate the Reagan-Thatcher relationship.
South Africa has defended him since the ICC issued its first warrant for his arrest in 2009, under the guise of building ties with the African Union.
