珊瑚礁拥有丰富的海洋生态系统，保护海岸线免受洪水和侵蚀，每年为全球带来的好处估计价值数万亿美元。但珊瑚礁面临着海洋变暖、疾病和旅游业等威胁。联邦珊瑚礁保护计划在保护和恢复珊瑚礁方面发挥着关键作用

Japan is pushing ahead on a broad array of initiatives meant to strengthen the Self-Defense Forces' deterrent power across multiple domains. But there are bound to be limits in manpower, resources, capacity, or capabilities that will place limits on what the end point of Japan's buildup ultimately looks like.

大衰退始于2007年，当时美国房地产市场的收缩导致金融部门的广泛损失，随后又引发了世界各地的经济冲击。到2007年12月，该国正式陷入衰退，在18个月内不会摆脱这种衰退。尽管国家安全决策没有立即受到经济衰退的影响，但解决赤字的短期政治措施带来的不确定性意味着国防部必须从根本上重新考虑其在2010年代确保国家安全的方式和方法

U.S. early-stage hardware startups are seriously disadvantaged by a persistent lack of financing. Congress authorized the U.S. Department of Defense to spend $75 million to invest in dual-use hardware startups. But the Pentagon has proven reticent to embrace a venture capital–style approach, even though research has demonstrated it is optimal for driving innovation.