This chapter discusses various aspects of launching and sustaining modernization initiatives including a discussion of pitfalls to avoid, modernization principles, tool and service strategies, where to start, and what to expect in the future from modernization.
"Without additional funding dedicated to strategic forces modernization, sustaining this level of spending will require very, very hard choices and will impact the other parts of the defense portfolio," Work said.
Once the Senate voted in July to stop buying F-22s, Mr. Emanuel said in an interview, that success "reverberated down" to help sustain billions of dollars of cuts in Army modernization, missile defense and other programs.
He explains that Russia's failure to sustain technology, and its recurrent attempts to force modernization, reflect its political and social evolution and even its resistance to democratic principles.
"The funds saved will help us sustain the current force structure and make needed investments in modernization in a fiscally responsible way," President Obama said in a statement.
Will any new ideology emerge — one based on nationalism, or propagating some theory of economic modernization or of the separation of religion and state — to sustain the struggle against Islamists?
But this connectedness also coincided with a different kind of modernization — the great decline of small-boat cod fishing, which used to sustain the Lofoten communities.
The modernization of bamboo, a material native to Kenya, not only provide a strong and eco-friendly material for the house, but can also sustain local micro-industries.
I think the challenge for Russia — and the real challenge for President Medvedev's modernization agenda — is to create an environment that is conducive to this kind of creativity, as well as one that has the nutrients to sustain it once it sprouts.
