"It is, nevertheless, the duty of the Ministry of Defence to provide options for the use of military force in scenarios such as Syria, and military advice on the utility of those options".
Media captionChuck Hagel: "President Obama has asked the defence department to prepare options for all contingencies" "President Obama has asked the defence department to prepare options for all contingencies.
Given further consideration, newly evolved chemical defences may rationally provide options for new resistance-defeating chemistry.
Sutton's military career from January 1991 until August 1995 had coincided with a time of hefty cuts to the Army under the Thatcher Conservative government's "Options for Change" defence review of 1990, followed by the "Front Line First" cuts of 1994, measures which included the halving of the Brigade of Gurkhas from 8,000 members to just over 3,500.
But last month hints and cryptic references to the talks began slipping out in Washington and Brussels.In January Victoria Nuland, America's ambassador to NATO, wrote to her fellow envoys to inform them about options for missile-defence sites in Europe.
The "Pac-Man" defence remains an option for Leif Ostling, Scania's boss for 17 years.
In early 2006 a project office was established within the Defence Materiel Organisation (DMO) to evaluate the options for acquiring heavy lift aircraft.
In truth, there are no easy options for the future of British defence policy – but there is no choice but change.
US considering 'options' on Syria Jump to media player The US is preparing "options for all contingencies" in Syria, Defence Secretary Chuck Hagel says.
The day before Trump's address, the US defence secretary James Mattis claimed that there were "many military options" for dealing with Pyongyang, even suggesting, cryptically, that some of those options did not put Seoul at risk.
