However, it does not consider defence solutions.
If that is not enough to ensure a trouble-free Christmas and Carnival, the defence minister offered another solution: prayer.
Even those well-meaning observers who originally sought to mount a compassionate defence of a military solution to the iniquities of Saddam Hussein now speak in despair about the brutal incompetence of its execution.
But if those are the problems currently undermining the champions' defence, where are the solutions?
Analysts at finnCap said: Following a detailed and aggressive review, the senior management team has decided to take a major provision against a fixed price contract in the enterprise solutions and defence division, which appears to have been substantially underestimated.
But can you imagine an Australian political leader pledging to massively increase funding for schools and universities, hugely invest in sustainable energy solutions, reduce defence spending and not join every failed US misadventure in the Middle East?
Given that Gibraltar was a small town with only a few defences protecting it, the solution was to build a massive series of tunnels and chambers inside the natural protection of the Rock of Gibraltar.
She preferred to see the ailing British helicopter company merge with the American Sikorsky rather than accept the European solution that her defence secretary and leading critic, Michael Heseltine, had wanted.
City officials have insisted another defender is not a priority for Mancini, but Jérôme Boateng is expected to leave the FA Cup winners, and Coates could provide a long-term solution in central defence, while providing a setback to Premier League rivals should he complete a move to the Etihad Stadium.
As an alternative to engineering solutions, ecosystem-based coastal defence strategies have been recommended as better and more sustainable solutions, although it has not been clearly demonstrated that they really work.
