Sentence examples for conventional defences from inspiring English sources

In a foreword to the review due to be launched by Cameron himself, the prime minister states: "At its [the strategy] heart is an understanding that we cannot choose between conventional defences against state-based threats and the need to counter threats that do not recognise national borders.

The first is conventional defence and deterrence quickly deployable hard power.

He consistently challenged such concepts as pre-emptive strikes, winnable limited nuclear exchanges and the reliance on tactical nuclear weapons as a cheap substitute for conventional defence.

"As foreign secretary, I am opposed, and still oppose, Trident as an expensive financial inroad into our conventional defence effort", Owen writes.

Having said that, Homeland and Zero Dark Thirty are also deeply conservative works whose narratives provide a conventional defence of American power.

A few of them may even be willing to grasp the nettle and make some big changes in conventional defence spending.

While some argue that it doesn't matter how much Trident renewal costs, it clearly will matter if our already highly stretched conventional defence capabilities must be cut to pay for it.

But some senior officers fear that the announcement of concentration on special forces is paving the way for cuts in conventional defence expenditure with the two proposed new aircraft carriers and fast jets under threat.

A YouGov poll last summer found that barely one voter in four (27%) wanted Trident replaced "with a new and upgraded system"; about the same number (25%) favoured maintaining the current Trident system, without upgrading or renewing it; but a rather larger proportion (36%) supported scrapping Trident in favour of spending the money on conventional defence forces.

And not only does it outspend most of the rest of the world combined on conventional defence (see chart 3), it also has a formidable nuclear arsenal and the wherewithal for cyber-warfare.The real question is not whether the country can go to war if it has to, but whether it fights the right sort of war when it chooses to.

Conventional defence alone could not protect against the threat, it said.