Strategic Defense Initiative — Organization SDIO Agency overview Formed 1984 Dissolved 1993 (renamed) Superseding a … Wikipedia
Strategic management — is a field that deals with the major intended and emergent initiatives taken by general managers on behalf of owners, involving utilization of resources, to enhance the performance of firms in their external environments.[1] It entails specifying… … Wikipedia
Strategic reset — is a policy framework designed to stop counterproductive U.S. engagement in a fragmenting Iraq and to strengthen the United States stance throughout the Middle East. In military terms, reset refers to a series of actions to restore units to a… … Wikipedia
Strategic alliance — A Strategic Alliance is a formal relationship between two or more parties to pursue a set of agreed upon goals or to meet a critical business need while remaining independent organizations. Partners may provide the strategic alliance with… … Wikipedia
Strategic Hamlet Program — The Strategic Hamlet Program was a plan by the governments of South Vietnam and the United States during the Vietnam War to combat the Communist insurgency by means of population transfer.In 1961, U.S. advisors in South Vietnam, along with the… … Wikipedia
Strategic reserve — For the military term see: Military reserve A strategic reserve is a term used to describe a reserve of a commodity or items, held back from normal use by governments, organisations or business in pursuance of a particular strategy or to cope… … Wikipedia
Strategic Defense Initiative — (abbr SDI) the plan by US President Reagan to build a defence in space against nuclear weapons. Its popular name was ‘Star Wars’. He announced this in 1983, but it was never built because of the expense and the end of the Cold War. SDI was… … Universalium
Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) — also called Star Wars Proposed U.S. strategic defense system against nuclear attacks. Announced as a 20 year, $20 billion effort by Pres. Ronald Reagan in 1983, SDI was intended to defend the U.S. from a full fledged Soviet attack by intercepting … Universalium
Scottish Funding Council — The Scottish Further and Higher Education Funding Council, more commonly known as the Scottish Funding Council (SFC), is the body in Scotland that distributes funding from the Scottish Government to the country s colleges and universities. It was … Wikipedia
Military funding of science — The military funding of science has had a powerful transformative effect on the practice and products of scientific research since the early 20th century. Particularly since World War I, advanced science based technologies have been viewed as… … Wikipedia
Local Strategic Partnership — Local Strategic Partnerships (LSPs) exist in nearly all local authority areas in England and Wales. They bring together representatives from the local statutory, voluntary, community and private sectors to address local problems, allocate funding … Wikipedia