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| 連立政権崩壊、総選挙へ−アフガン駐留問題めぐり労働党が離脱−(オランダ) (03/01) 【JETRO 通商弘報】 |
| US military: Arms and the man for changeBy Daniel Dombey, Sylvia Pfeifer and Jeremy LemerPublished: February 10 2010 20:02 | Last updated: February 10 2010 20:02function floatContent(){var paraNum = "3"paraNum = paraNum - 1;var tb = document.getElementById('floating-con');var nl = document.getElementById('floating-target');if(tb.getElementsByTagName("div").length>0){if (nl.getElementsByTagName("p").length>= paraNum){nl.insertBefore(tb,nl.getElementsByTagName("p")[paraNum]);}else {if (nl.getElementsByTagName("p").length == 3){nl.insertBefore(tb,nl.getElementsByTagName("p")[2]);}else {nl.insertBefore(tb,nl.getElementsByTagName("p")[0]);}}}}Two decades after the cold war ended, one man is trying to reinvent the world’s most powerful military machine. Since becoming US defence secretary in 2006 Robert Gates, an old cold warrior himself, has pushed for Pentagon spending – the level of which rivals the rest of the world’s defence costs combined – to adapt to the 21st century.The task he faces is to reconfigure a military built to confront the Soviet Union into one that can address today’s challenges – including the rise of China, emergent regional powers such as Iranand the risk of cyber warfare – as well as the already eight-year-old war in Afghanistan.In this storyThe 2011 defence budgetThe PentagonAfghanistanNuclear weaponsMissile defenceContractors and lobbyingMr Gates’ $708bn (£452bn, €514bn) budget proposalfor 2011, set out last week, is one of his biggest steps yet to reshape the defence sector. But it also provides an unrivalled snapshot of the obstacles he faces. His plans include attempts to rein back expensive weapons systems, provide more resources for taking on Afghan-style insurgencies, and invest in America’s more than 2m men and women in uniform.But the defence budget is itself a behemoth that is supremely difficult to transform. Great swaths of spending have proved too big to budge; Congress has a record of reinstating projects the Pentagon itself wants to be rid of; and turnround times for weapons programmes can be up to 20 years. In a microcosm of the problems bedevilling the US economy as a whole, items such as healthcare account for an ever growing proportion of the defence budget. Not for nothing did Dwight Eisenhower talk in his farewell presidential address of a “military-industrial complex” with influence “in every city, every state house, every office of the federal government”. Defence spending is a political, industrial and economic issue as well as a strategic one. It helps determine votes in key congressional seats, the fate of industrial titans and the overall shape of the economy. After all, the 2011 Pentagon budget accounts for 4.7 per cent of the world’s biggest economy – and that is before taking into account the many other US outlays on national security.Yet Mr Gates has already marked a change with the past, slowing down the rate of growth in spending from the George W. Bush years – and looking for more help from allies as the country attempts to reconcile limited resources with growing challenges.As the US seeks to find a way out of its $1,556bn federal deficit, analysts from both left and right say big cuts could hit the Pentagon in future. For the institution more intimately connected than any other with America’s status as the world’s solitary superpower – the difficult choices may just be beginning.The 2011 US defence budget* (February 10 2010 20:02) 【Financial Times (FT.com)】 (英文) |
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| Slideshow: US aid in Afghanistan (October 14 2009 15:29) 【Financial Times (FT.com)】 (英文) |
| Security guards cleared of killings in Baghdad (January 1 2010 23:59) 【Financial Times (FT.com)】 (英文) |
| UN official tells US it risks Afghan defeat (January 6 2010 20:52) 【Financial Times (FT.com)】 (英文) |
| Nato intelligence chief condemns US failings (January 5 2010 19:06) 【Financial Times (FT.com)】 (英文) |
| CIA bomber said to be al-Qaeda double agent (January 5 2010 07:44) 【Financial Times (FT.com)】 (英文) |
| Al-Qaeda targets Yemen as haven (January 4 2010 18:53) 【Financial Times (FT.com)】 (英文) |
| Karzai recalls parliament to vet new list (January 4 2010 17:56) 【Financial Times (FT.com)】 (英文) |
| President snowed under by his promises of action (January 4 2010 02:00) 【Financial Times (FT.com)】 (英文) |
| Obama snowed under by his promises of action (January 3 2010 20:42) 【Financial Times (FT.com)】 (英文) |
| Envoy says Afghan cabinet rebuff stalls reform (January 3 2010 16:25) 【Financial Times (FT.com)】 (英文) |
| Pakistan urges united reaction after CIA blast (January 3 2010 19:32) 【Financial Times (FT.com)】 (英文) |
| Afghan parliament rejects 17 cabinet nominees (January 2 2010 18:57) 【Financial Times (FT.com)】 (英文) |
| Revenge seen as motive in CIA killings (January 1 2010 20:59) 【Financial Times (FT.com)】 (英文) |
| UN doubles spending in Afghanistan (December 28 2009 01:58) 【Financial Times (FT.com)】 (英文) |
| CIA confirms seven staff killed in Afghan attack (January 1 2010 12:08) 【Financial Times (FT.com)】 (英文) |
| Afghan suicide bomber kills CIA staff (December 31 2009 02:37) 【Financial Times (FT.com)】 (英文) |
| Origins of group traced to Sana’a jailbreak (December 29 2009 18:15) 【Financial Times (FT.com)】 (英文) |
| Broken Bosnia needs western attention (December 29 2009 20:14) 【Financial Times (FT.com)】 (英文) |
| PAKISTAN-AFGHANISTAN TRADE AGREEMENT UNDER PROCESS: COMMERCE MINISTER (03/20) 【NAM News Network】 (英文) |
| MALAYSIA FIRMS RECORD BRISK SALES AT GULFOOD 2010 TRADE SHOW IN DUBAI (03/03) 【NAM News Network】 (英文) |
| QUARTER OF WORLD COUNTRIES TO RECEIVE SOUTH KOREAN ODA: KOICA (SEOUL, Feb. 19) 【NAM News Network】 (英文) |
| US TO PROVIDE $100 MILLION FOR AGRICULTURE DEVELOPMENT IN PAKISTAN AND AFGHANISTAN (ISLAMABAD, Feb 12) 【NAM News Network】 (英文) |
| MALAYSIA: ISLAMIC BANKING SYSTEM GETS FOREIGN INVESTMENTS (01/24) 【NAM News Network】 (英文) |
| PAKISTANI PM GILANI ANNOUNCES FINANCIAL PACKAGE FOR NWFP (PESHAWAR, Jan 7) 【NAM News Network】 (英文) |
| Narongchai: Expect status quo (25/02/2010 at 12:00 AM) 【Bangkok Post】 (英文) |
| Obama seeks to create jobs, cut deficit in 2011 budget (1/02/2010 at 07:53 PM) 【Bangkok Post】 (英文) |
| US toughens screening for US-bound flights (4/01/2010 at 04:52 AM) 【Bangkok Post】 (英文) |
| Hu unveils landmark Turkmenistan pipeline (14/12/2009 at 08:04 PM) 【Bangkok Post】 (英文) |
| Statement: MTN Ghana subscribers now 8 million (Monday, 15 March 2010, 12:45 GMT) 【Myjoyonline.com】 (英文) |
| MTN locates West and Central Africa office in Ghana (Tuesday, 12 January 2010, 22:19 GMT) 【Myjoyonline.com】 (英文) |
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