Is Military Power Becoming Obsolete?

Has Economic Power Replaced Military Might?

The aspect it stresses is military power.

China s economic and military power is rising.

American means U.S. political and military power.

Economic resources can produce soft power behavior as well as hard military power.

Military power remains important because it structures world politics.

It took hard military power to sever that tie.

However in September, a new military junta took power.

As the efficacy of military power is reduced, so the importance of economic power grows.

The US government spends 450 times more on hard military power than on soft power.

The military and the Muslim Brotherhood divide power between themselves.

The West s economic mismanagement will also reduce its military power.

Military overreach has predictably led to nervousness about using military power, and others knowledge of this threatens to weaken America s security as well. But America s real strength, more than its military and economic power, is its soft power, its moral authority.

In Ecuador, the US has deployed its military power through the renovation of the Manta military base.

As for America, it is down in terms of both soft ideological power and hard military power.

Military power, which some call the ultimate form of power in world politics, requires a thriving economy.

CAMBRIDGE Will military power become less important in the coming decades?

Hard power grows out of a country's military and economic might.

But the misuse of military resources can also undercut soft power.

Military power, which some call the ultimate form of power in world politics, requires a thriving economy. But whether economic or military resources produce more power in today s world depends on the context.

While military power remains important, it is a mistake for any country to discount the role of economic power and soft power.

But America s real strength, more than its military and economic power, is its soft power, its moral authority.

Leadership entails more than the possession of enormous economic and military power.

The war was meant to demonstrate the strategic power of military might.

The United States is once again learning the limits of military power.

Given China s rising economic and military power, this was a smart decision.

The manner in which we use military power also affects Rumsfeld s ratio.

As Iraq has shown, hard military power alone cannot provide a solution.

But no empire could ever be held together by military power alone.

On the other hand, misuse of military resources can undercut soft power.

Such hard power means law and order within and military might without.

The manner in which we use military power also affects Rumsfeld s ratio.

A military coup brought Miguel Primo de Rivera to power in 1923, and he ran Spain as a military dictatorship.

America s global military power is undisputed, although it is used with decreasing frequency.

What limits on the use of US military power are acceptable or necessary?

For some people, raw military might is the only true measure of power.

Not every threat to America's national interests can be addressed with military power.

Hard power, which relies on coercion, grows out of military and economic might.

But for Chinese military power, the US would treat China like another Japan.

The military has the power to detain them for up to seven days.

Military force is sometimes treated as synonymous with hard power, but the same resource can sometimes contribute to soft power.

That may be true in the domain of hard military power, but it is not true of soft power resources.

Military force is obviously a source of hard power, but the same resource can sometimes contribute to soft power behavior.

Not only are their military, or hard power, resources growing there are signs that their soft power resources are increasing, too.