Sentence examples for defence commitment from inspiring English sources

And Britain needs a real debate about its future defence commitment – including Trident renewal.

In the light of Trump's hostility, this can be seen as a significant pointer to a more autonomous European defence commitment in the future.

To be sure, the 100 years of on-off transatlantic partnership since the Meuse-Argonne offensive of September 1918 have left a massive legacy: the biggest, closest, international economic intertwining in the world; the Nato security alliance, with a renewed mutual defence commitment thanks to Putin; as well as a matchless cultural and intellectual intimacy.

In questions following Hagel's remarks, a Chinese general testily asked the defense secretary to explain what she called his own "subtle threat of force" in restating the U.S. defence commitment to Japan even as he called for a negotiated settlement of contesting claims to East China Sea islands.

Officials and lawmakers on both sides of the Atlantic agree that the payment gap is a valid concern, but they are alarmed by the ambivalence Mr Trump has shown towards the value of the alliance, and the mutual defence commitment at its core - the first time in 70 years an American president has raised such doubts.

Cf., in particular, the mutual defence commitment contained in Article V of the Modified Brussels Treaty, which its signatories consider covered by Article 42 7) TEU (Statement of the Presidency of the Permanent Council of the WEU of 31 March 2010).

Analysts say that would make it harder to retain Britain's 2 per cent contribution to Nato defence commitments, while critics lament the cuts.

If Trump throttles back on US defence commitments in Asia, or if Canberra opts to distance itself from the US under new leadership, the implications are more profound.

It is a paradox of historic proportions: Vladimir Putin has done more to boost Nato's territorial defence commitments than any Russian leader in decades.

"What is really important is that we are able to fulfil all our defence commitments, and I think that is going to require a reversal in the trend in defence spending.

All this, just when Germany is taking on expensive new defence commitments by agreeing to a planned new 60,000-strong European crisis-intervention force and by playing a bigger part in peacekeeping abroad.