Egypt's people invested great hope in the idea of an apolitical, incorruptible military leadership — a comprehensible but unfounded reflex that prevails again today.
Reflector sights for military firearms (usually referred to as reflex sights) took a long time to be adopted.
While we are uneasy about Mr Corbyn's reflex anti-Americanism, if he makes Mr Cameron more cautious about military action, that would be no bad thing.
A recent article in Military Review, a magazine published every other month by the Army, warned that reflex-quick killing can be a psychological time bomb.
Hagel's voting record on military affairs, like Kerry's, sometimes seems less a matter of considered judgment than political reflex.
And the patriotic reflexes aroused by the terrorists gave the president unusual license to invest in a new military.
The first two on that list come courtesy of Reflex Responses, Erik Prince's latest blandly titled muscle-for-hire outfit, which the Times reported is creating a standing military force for the U.A.E. made up largely of Colombians.
What is Reflex Responses?
