More threats will only push the international community further along the spiral of escalation and, possibly, into military action.

After all, the recent military escalation in the region is at least partly due to that strategy.

They're trained to think more, to try and de escalate.

For example, US support for Mexico s campaign against the cartels looks set in stone, with Congress apparently ready to provide 300 million for another year of military and security upgrading.

This escalation occurred without using weapons of mass destruction.

Furthermore, deployment of chemical weapons invites escalation.

This is partly because the strategy while bearing all the hallmarks of modern Chinese brinkmanship, including reliance on stealth, surprise, and a disregard for the risks of military escalation seeks to ensure that the initiative remains with China.

Their presence and ability to provide objective information might prevent continuation or further escalation of the violence of the last few weeks to the point where it would require military intervention.

So America s military intervention in Afghanistan is now open ended and the fighting is not subsiding. On the contrary, the recent escalation of Taliban attacks indicates that the approaching summer fighting season will be among the most intense since the war began.

China expresses its concern about the recent escalation of violent clashes between Israelis and Palestinians.

(a) Substantial reductions of tariffs, the rolling back of tariff peaks and the removal of tariff escalation

The warfare caused negative impact on economic growth, especially the large scale Tet Offensive in 1968.

Following the gradual increase in the violence of the last 10 days, Israel is taking more forceful action.

Despite the alarming escalation in violence, fears of civil war in Kenya are probably exaggerated.

A number of governments have taken the decision to expel Syrian ambassadors in protest at the escalation of violence.

Okinawan police were able to remove the American driver safely from the scene, but the confrontation continued to escalate.

That open ended statement, without any clear means to achieve the goal that it announced, has done much to fuel military escalation and the rising death toll in Syria, while pushing the US repeatedly to defend its credibility against a line in the sand that it should not have drawn.

In the run up to the Iraq invasion, the Bush administration rejected containment as an obsolete Cold War hangover.

The recent escalation of violence along Gaza s border with Israel does suggest that events are developing in a dangerous direction.

Many commentators on the Iraq War began, by the end of 2006, to refer to this violent escalation as a civil war.

Europe s Military Injustice

Fourth, military transformation.

13 P 4, 25 P 3 (5 P 3b), 19 P 2,

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If the six governments want to avoid the escalation spiral and curb the proliferation dynamic, they need to change strategy and objective.

Some of Kennedy s most ardent admirers still like to believe that he would have prevented the escalation of the Vietnam War had he lived longer.

His whole monastery was thrown into prison at the time of the uprising, when the Dalai Lama had to leave Tibet.

In the recent period, the Georgian authorities have sought repeatedly to focus the attention of the world community on the escalated situation in Abkhazia, Georgia.

The recent Israeli escalation has dealt a real blow to peace efforts at all levels and has weakened our hopes for achieving substantive progress in the peace process.

The Decline of US Military Innovation

Latin America s Military Factor

Military deployment and activities

Accountant of the Military Coordination Detachment

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Military training camps

Furthermore, military or semi military intervention is not the only option on the table.

What Good Is an Arab Military Alliance?

(d) The abolition of the Military Order Court

Japan s Secret Shogun

Military reform has yet to begin.

I opposed military intervention for two reasons.

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Nuclear terrorism, a slowdown in China, or a sharp escalation of violence in the Middle East could all blow the lid off the current economic dynamic.