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  • The doctrinal Army documents that embrace counterinsurgency use the term full-spectrum a whole lot.

    You Worry Too Much | ATTACKERMAN 2009

  • When I was unemployed, I continued my old job's full-spectrum health insurance using the COBRA provisions.

    Collective vs. Individual Benefits, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

  • Santorum is a "full-spectrum conservative" who is "rock solid on values issues."

    HUFFPOST FUNDRACE - Iowa And Beyond Paul Blumenthal 2011

  • A green cable show would be a full-spectrum broadcast -- an opportunity to combat denialist dogma, a chance to spotlight successful clean-energy companies, a forum to call out corruption in Congress.

    D. R. Tucker: The Current Climate D. R. Tucker 2012

  • Mr. Cameron argues that the U.K. will still have the fourth-biggest military budget in the world, and will still be a full-spectrum power, or one capable of both low-intensity combat such as counterinsurgency operations and the kind of major operations required for state-on-state combat.

    U.K. Cuts to Military Will Curb Influence Alistair MacDonald 2011

  • Santorum is a "full-spectrum conservative" who is "rock solid on values issues."

    HUFFPOST FUNDRACE - Iowa And Beyond Paul Blumenthal 2011

  • It's precisely because of this disconnect between apathetic or weak public support for the Afghanistan war and a costly war raging on at a distance that leads to a full-spectrum influence strategy where public relations, public diplomacy, info ops and psy-ops -- and now Information Engagement cells -- are the soup to nuts menu for getting the purse-holders to board the train.

    Nancy Snow: Pentagon, Inc.: How to Sell an Unpopular War Nancy Snow 2011

  • But the U.K. has nevertheless emerged from the SDSR as a full-spectrum military power, with future forces that will be the most modern, capable and deployable of any U.S. ally.

    The British Lion Will Continue to Retain His Claws 2010

  • It's precisely because of this disconnect between apathetic or weak public support for the Afghanistan war and a costly war raging on at a distance that leads to a full-spectrum influence strategy where public relations, public diplomacy, info ops and psy-ops -- and now Information Engagement cells -- are the soup to nuts menu for getting the purse-holders to board the train.

    Nancy Snow: Pentagon, Inc.: How to Sell an Unpopular War Nancy Snow 2011

  • But the committee, composed of lawmakers from all Britain's major political parties, said the military will be shrunk in such a way as to make full-spectrum service impossible.

    U.K. Cuts to Military Will Curb Influence Alistair MacDonald 2011

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