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I don't expect it to lead to any strategic breakthrough, and no one has explained how it will.
But a US troop surge, aimed at achieving the strategic breakthrough that a similar tactic had won in Iraq, failed.
If the most populous Arab state by far can develop into a democratic friend of the West, that will amount to a strategic breakthrough.
Just like the British on the Somme in 1916 or the French at Chemin des Dames in 1917, the German attackers suffered terrible losses but were never able to turn local success into a strategic breakthrough.
"This acquisition is a strategic breakthrough for Valeo that will not only enhance our presence across North America, but also strengthen our ties with the Ford Motor Company in North America and the rest of the world," Jacques Aschenbroich, Valeo's chief executive, said in a statement.
Instead of a quick military action in Syria, which would have killed more innocent civilians than criminals, the United States achieved, without a shot fired, a major strategic breakthrough that is bound to affect other processes under way in the region.
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In recent years, strategic breakthroughs have been successively achieved in the Ordos and Songliao Basins (Yang et al. 2013; Yao et al. 2013; Huang et al. 2013; Zou et al. 2012, 2013a, b, c, 2015).
This is not a promising environment for strategic breakthroughs — a situation complicated by tensions between China and Trump over trade and Chinese expansionism, creating a mosaic of contradictory interests he seems ill-equipped to navigate.
In short -- as documented at length in my book Reagan at Reykjavik -- he set strategic goals on where he wanted to take superpower relations and nuclear weapons; figured out a pathway of how to get from here to there; trusted the leadership team around him; stayed the course during harsh opposition and grave setbacks; and managed to turn such setbacks into strategic breakthroughs.
Over the past two decades, the barriers limiting breakthrough strategic design development have been studied in much detail.
China need not yet fret greatly about India's relations with Japan: despite the prime ministerial hugs, this week's trip produced no breakthrough in strategic affairs.
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