Sentence examples for smart defence from inspiring English sources
Mr Rasmussen's answer is to do more with less, using "smart defence", pooling and sharing equipment and capabilities.
Other schemes covering logistics, training and force protection are expected to follow.Despite universal lip service to smart defence, scepticism abounds.
Containment, dedicated diplomacy designed to win friends and allies, investment in promoting Western moral authority and a smart defence strategy worked then, and can work again, he argues.
A confidential seven-page paper leaked to the German news weekly Der Spiegel proposed joint exercises and training between Nato and the three countries, increasing the "interoperability" of their militaries with Nato, and their participation in Nato "smart defence" operations.
Bungled and costly programmes to build the A400M transport plane and the NH90, a multi-role helicopter, were models of how not to do it.Some hopes have also been invested in NATO's "smart defence" initiative as a way of making falling defence budgets go further.
This is accompanied by the implementation of the NATO Smart Defence idea, or smart common defence, which we are going to develop together with our neighbours in Europe and which should also bring about multi-billion investments in the Polish defence system and research centres – we are working hard on that together with our partners.
In one of the sharpest breaks yet with the policies of the Bush administration, Obama said the new approach would offer "stronger, swifter and smarter" defence for the US and its allies.
That hangs uncomfortably over the whole smart-defence idea.The endgame in Afghanistan casts a gloomy shadow, too.
Souths have plenty of attacking flair but their premiership was built on a foundation of quick, smart, brutal defence.
He impressed with his strong defence and smart running, but Kiwi international Luke is a hard man to replace.
Smart and Whittaker's defence amounted to admitting they had been out for dinner with a Paddy Power PR the day before, who for good measure also ensured that "we got to go to see Chelsea play again".
