Syria's prime location and muscle make it the strategic center of the Middle East.
Our challenge is to define that new strategic center for Egypt".
The strategic center of gravity is American public opinion, which will tell us when we've run out of time.
But in war, it is a prime target, a strategic center for Hezbollah in the Bekaa Valley.
Under the pressure of its multifaceted war, the country, widely considered to be the strategic center of the Middle East, has all but disintegrated.
Syria has few natural resources, but its geography bordering Israel, Jordan, Iraq, Turkey, Lebanon, and the Mediterranean makes it the strategic center of the Middle East.
They arrived to bolster the undermanned and faltering British effort, but Helmand, which had a booming opium crop, was not in any sense the strategic center of the war.
David W. Barno, a retired lieutenant general who spent 19 months as the senior American officer in Afghanistan, agreed that sustained financial assistance was the "strategic center of gravity".
Bakrajo is one of several airfields in the Kurdish-controlled zone, part of a network of aviation infrastructure that includes a concrete strip in in the region's strategic center, in Harir, and strips in Bamarni and Erbil.
Already, legislators in a half-dozen states — Alabama, Florida, Louisiana, Michigan, Missouri and South Carolina — have tried to require that classrooms be open to "views about the scientific strengths and weaknesses of Darwinian theory," according to a petition from the Discovery Institute, the Seattle-based strategic center of the intelligent design movement.
Already, legislators in six states — Alabama, Florida, Louisiana, Michigan, Missouri and South Carolina — have considered legislation requiring classrooms to be open to "views about the scientific strengths and weaknesses of Darwinian theory," according to a petition from the Discovery Institute, the Seattle-based strategic center of the intelligent-design movement.
