31.   But first they should ask him some questions about his record of involvement in decisions to use American military power abroad.

32.   But he is not mad to suppose that military power can help Israel to solve some of them, as it has in the past.

33.   But the current campaign, with its reliance on military power toward elastic, ill-defined goals, seems in particular to have stirred Arab misgivings.

34.   But the same constraints on the use of U.S. military power would likely apply again.

35.   But there is no evidence that China is seeking to compete with the United States as a global military power as the Soviet Union once did.

36.   But until unification, he says he would be willing to use American military power to protect Taiwan, provided it did not declare its independence from China.

37.   But Washington cannot afford to be reckless in the use of military power or indifferent to the loss of Arab lives.

38.   But Tokyo also understands that any attempt to rebuild Japanese military power would stir angry memories throughout Asia of past Japanese aggression.

39.   But, at the same time, the administration would never invest U.S. military power to achieve the settlement that it deemed moral.

40.   China does not have a strong navy and has only a modest submarine fleet, but it has been looking for ways to improve its military power at sea.