This policy, she says, has undermined readiness.
This broken system, which allows rape and sexual assault to go virtually unchecked is undermining readiness, unit cohesion, and morale.
In addition to well-known undermined readiness of local public health systems caused by long-term poverty, human rights abuses and civil, fear and misinformation about Ebola significantly hampered epidemic control efforts and accelerated viral spread.
Our research on military forces in Israel, Britain, Canada and Australia, as well as American units with known gay soldiers, has concluded that the presence of gay soldiers does not impair combat effectiveness or undermine military readiness.
The opponents of the bombings have vowed to step up the protests until the Navy pulls out, while the Navy's supporters claim that suspension of the exercises would undermine military readiness.
What is new is the increased, federally-sanctioned effort to invest in escape hatches rather than in systemic programs to alleviate the conditions of poverty that undermine students readiness and ability to sustain learning.
"It would have been beyond unconscionable to rip away the critically important health care of transgender military family members and service members — care that their doctors believe is medically necessary — and would have severely harmed thousands of military families and undermine military readiness".
The DOD further argued that suits like those brought at Eagle River Flats, if successful, could set a legal precedent whereby environmental litigants could halt military training and thus undermine troop readiness on the battlefield.
"You cannot make a case for undermining the readiness of the Army and the Marines in the circumstances that we face today with a commitment of so much money to weapons systems that are at best abstract and theoretical".
In outlining the approach, Ms. Rice was providing the strategic rationale behind many of Mr. Bush's general comments in the campaign about using American military power and his repeated contentions that extended peacekeeping missions and humanitarian operations had undermined military readiness.
