11.  Davis said, however, that military payroll shortages are starting to reach the strategic forces.

12.  In recent years both India and Pakistan have come to rely more and more on their strategic forces.

13.  Millennium Pharmaceuticals sits at the nexus of the strategic forces shaping the industry.

14.  Russia and China believe that these threats are exaggerated and that Washington wants to erect a missile shield as the first step toward undermining their national strategic deterrent forces.

15.  Senator Bob Smith of New Hampshire, a Vietnam veteran, does have significant credentials, serving as chairman of the strategic forces subcommittee of the Armed Forces Committee.

16.  Some U.S. military officials argue that for cost reasons, Russia is reducing its strategic forces.

17.  Strategic forces have been independent of the general staff.

18.  The denuclearization of Ukraine and Belarus and the reductions of strategic forces by both the United States and Russia were negotiated with persistence and success.

19.  The end result could be a strategic force that while deploying far fewer nuclear weapons, fails to provide strong non-nuclear alternatives against rogue nations.

20.  These strategic offensive forces give each side the certain ability to carry out an annihilating counterattack on the other side regardless of the conditions under which the war began.