Sentence examples for regional defense from inspiring English sources

Everybody is very worried about China," said Rahul Bedi, a regional defense expert — particularly the Indian Navy, as China flexes its muscle in the Indian Ocean.

The construction of the causeway linking Bahrain with Saudi Arabia has strengthened bilateral relations and regional defense and has helped both countries economically and politically.

The most desirable way to balance the rising power of China would be the creation of a regional defense alliance stretching from South Korea to Burma.

Mr. Gates stopped in the Philippines en route to Alaska from Singapore, where he had spent three days at a regional defense conference.

Azerbaijan sees little way forward: though it could easily drive out Armenian forces, Russia could send its army to help Armenia, its ally in a regional defense alliance, just as it did in South Ossetia.

In Singapore, Mr. Gates is attending the annual Shangri-La Dialogue, a regional defense conference organized by the International Institute for Strategic Studies and named for the luxury hotel in which it is held.

Although the UK hopes to deploy a massive new aircraft carrier to the region in 2020, recent budget cuts have reduced regional defenses to a half-dozen old typhoon fighter jets and surface-to-air missile batteries, some visiting warships, and just over a thousand troops.

WASHINGTON — President Obama is preparing to seek Congressional approval for a huge arms sale to Saudi Arabia, chiefly intended as a building block for Middle East regional defenses to box in Iran, according to administration and Pentagon officials.

The Aegis, they say, might eventually serve as a platform for a regional missile defense.

Searchers were heading to the remote zone, said Gerardo Rojas, a regional civil defense official chief.

Even so, the challenges to creating an integrated regional missile defense system are both technological and political.