Current levels of our nuclear forces do not reflect today's strategic realities.

Once again, the empire was forced to adapt to a new strategic reality with reduced borders and resources.

The left has to get over its anger over President Bush's catastrophic blunder and recognize the seriousness of the strategic realities in Iraq and beyond.

"Our merger would have created the premier cellular company in the world, but such decisions ultimately must reflect economic and strategic realities," Mr. McCoy said.

Thus, he said, "the emerging strategic reality is that light forces with great flexibility are required to respond to these kinds of crises."

"But he tempers his military decisions with political calculations that have nothing to do with the strategic or tactical realities," Kim said quickly.

"It is irrelevant to the strategic and moral realities we face in the region."

We recognised this in 1995, when the Barcelona Process enshrined multilateral relations across the Mediterranean as the new strategic reality.

We must adapt to the new political, economic and strategic realities of a rapidly changing globalised world.

As early as 1923, Stanley Baldwin had recognized a new strategic reality that faced Britain in a disarmament speech.