Neither the Netanyahu government nor Hamas want a replay of 2014’s Operation Protective Edge rocket war. First, if the two sides don’t eventually reach agreement, they’ll suffer a disaster both wish to avoid. The Israel-Gaza situation, like those two earlier examples, displays three key features. Over 11,000 controllers lost their jobs and flights were disrupted for months. The strategy was less successful during America’s 1981 air traffic controller strike, when neither the controllers’ union nor President Ronald Reagan would back down. forces went to DEFCON 2 – a state of alert meaning war was imminent. They reached a deal for removing Soviet missiles from the island, but not before the Soviets shot down an American spy plane and U.S. Kennedy avoided nuclear war by ordering a naval “quarantine” of Cuba and responding selectively to Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev’s demands. successfully used it against the Soviet Union during the 1962 Cuban missile crisis. Each therefore is hoping brinkmanship will force the other to make concessions.īrinkmanship is a powerful but risky strategy. But their demands regarding military security, economic activity, and prisoner exchanges appear mutually incompatible. This skirmishing basically represents bargaining moves by Israel and Gaza over the terms of their relationship. official said another war had appeared “just minutes away.” The ceasefire announced May 30 perhaps seemed promising, but those of July 14 and July 21 seemed like aspirations rather than expectations. The firepower employed by both parties has steadily escalated while purported truces have crumbled more quickly. Since then, Palestinian authorities say that 157 Gazans have been killed and thousands injured. This is the second year that the UK MoD has pushed back against the SSRO proposals - Ouch!!.Relations between Israel and the Gaza Strip have become increasingly violent since the Palestinian “Great March of Return” protests began in March. Interestingly the UK MoD has retained a single baseline profit rate and not gone forward with the SSRO's proposal for multiple baseline profit rates across different work types. New for 2017 is the SSRO funding adjustment at -0.025% Working Capital Servicing Rate (% on negative Working Capital employed) Working Capital Servicing Rate (% on positive Working Capital employed) The rate applies to contracts signed or becoming a qualifying defence contract or qualifying subcontract from 1st April 2017 through 31st March 2018.īaseline Profit Rate (BPR) (% on contract cost)įixed Capital Servicing Rate (% on Fixed Capital employed) See the following link SSRO 2017 baseline profit rate recommendations The Secretary of State for Defence has accepted the SSRO profit rate recommendations for 2017. SSRO Baseline Profit Rate 2017 recommendations as accepted by the Secretary of State for Defence
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