In unveiling his Strategic Defense and Security Review, the first since the 9/11 attacks, Prime Minister David Cameron said the cuts were part of an effort to reconfigure a military that he called "overstretched, underequipped and ill-prepared" to meet the unconventional warfare challenges of the future.
Those unconventional threats might include cyber-ops, lone-wolf terrorists, energy and infrastructure threats, and information warfare — challenges ill suited to a response from NATO's prized "mobile and deployable" forces, and for which proportional responses are difficult to devise.
Similarly, the president's allies could use the stories from this week — Mr. Obama's role in assembling a terrorist "kill list" and his involvement in authorizing cyber warfare — to challenge the idea that his foreign policy is characterized by paralysis.
He underscored the radically changed role of modern warfare and the challenges ahead.
Strengthening Pakistan's weak civilian institutions, updating political parties rooted in feudal loyalties and recasting a military fixated on yesterday's enemy, and stuck in the traditions of conventional warfare, are generational challenges.
Looking tanned and relaxed after his vacation on an Egyptian beach, Mr. Blair spoke to several hundred soldiers at a muddy, sprawling logistics base in Shaiba, outside this city, where he underscored what he described as the radically changed role of modern warfare and the challenges ahead.
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Thus, in pursuing nanotherapeutic treatments, we engage in biological warfare, and the challenge to the nanotechnologist is not only to engineer particles with a specific set of physiochemical characteristics but to also avoid the white blood cell, sentinels which will destroy or remove the particles.
Adjusting to jungle warfare was a challenge for both Morshead and his men.
Either way, you'll be maneuvering highly specialized, ridiculously challenging warfare missions that are beyond the scope of standard military forces.
The last two decades have seen a challenge to this Islamic tradition of warfare under law, a challenge driven mostly by the attempt to justify suicide bombing despite its evident inconsistency with Islamic tradition.
