Sentence examples for defense umbrella from inspiring English sources

Her comments about the possibility of extending a "defense umbrella" over the Middle East ricocheted around foreign-policy circles.

The numbers were unlikely to allay Trump's anger over his perception that Europe is taking the U.S. defense umbrella for granted.

The Turkish government told the Trump administration it bought the S-400 because it needed something fast, according to Hutchison, and the Turks have promised Washington they won't connect the S-400 to the NATO defense umbrella.

North Korea's definition of denuclearization, as laid out in numerous previous talks with U.S. officials, envisions a far-reaching U.S. strategic retreat, including the removal of the American defense umbrella from both South Korea and Japan.

In his speech on Wednesday, for example, Trump promised to make Washington's European NATO allies pay their fair share of their membership dues, or else, he hinted, they'd be cut loose from the U.S. defense umbrella.

Graham also raised his voice in objection to the notion Trump advanced that the US's Asian allies were taking advantage of its defense umbrella: "South Korea and Japan have paid a lot".

He also stated that the missile-defense umbrella would cover our allies as well as ourselves.

Since World War II the heavy attack aircraft carrier has developed three roles: to deliver air strikes (both conventional and nuclear) against sea and shore targets; to provide a long-range air-defense umbrella for other ships; and to support antisubmarine operations (leaving it to other ships actually to destroy the submarines).

If Mr. Bush makes good on his pledge to unfurl a missile-defense umbrella over the United States, Washington and Moscow would be entering an era of profound disagreement about how to maintain global security against the use of nuclear weapons, even as they continue to work to reduce their number.

The easy answers were expensive placebos, like President Reagan's fantasy of an impermeable defensive umbrella, or before that the brief national obsession with civil defense.

If/if the Saudis agree to these two prior conditions, the U.S. should consider creating a new regional defense agreement umbrella (the U.S. led a similar effort in the 1950s by forging the Central Treaty Organization (CENTO).