October 13, 2010
Sun Tzu said: The art of war, then, is governed by five constant factors, to be taken into account in one’s deliberations, when seeking to determine the conditions obtaining in the field. These are: (1) The Moral Law; (2) Heaven; (3) Earth; (4) The Commander; (5) Method and discipline. The Moral Law causes the people… » read more
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September 23, 2010
Debate on German armed forces model is going on, and now that a plan is afoot to suspend conscription, we can see more clearly what direction Germany wants to give to Bundeswehr. Whereas many thought that German armed forces were still stuck in the fiction of defence at the borders, the Chief of Defence is… » read more
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After a first post describing what EATC would look like at the end of its development, I would like to analyse with some more accuracy the consequences and meaning of this new Headquarters. Firstly the EATC does not mean that European air forces have merged in one single force. Every participating country remains the owner… » read more
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September 10, 2010
Last weekend, a friend sent me an e-mail informing me about the latest Iranian weapon, namely the Karrar combat UAV. Having watched the video, I could easily guess that this so-called UAV looks like much more a poor quality copy of WW2 German V1, than a XXI century product. The bomb placed under the belly… » read more
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Defence Policy, English, NATO, Security , Iran, Klemperer, LTI, Missile Defence, NATO |
August 13, 2010
Some months ago I read an article written by J-P Maulny, deputy chairman of a French think tank (IRIS). The title, rather provocative, was: European Defence is dead, who has killed it? According to Mr Maulny, France and the UK are convicted having killed European Defence, while the USA are suspected having inflicted the same… » read more
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Defence Policy, English, European Defence, NATO, Procurement |
August 11, 2010
Here and there I can read that the Washington Treaty, creating the Atlantic Alliance, article 5, has inspired the solidarity clause, article 222 of Lisbon Treaty. Personally I would rather refer to the Brussels Treaty, creating the Western European Union, which is in fact much more demanding than the Washington Treaty. Here are the different… » read more
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English, European Defence, NATO, Security , Lisbon Treaty, NATO, WEU |
The future NATO concept has raised a lot of interest within the military community. Among those who wrote on the topic, I could find some comments on the reinforcement of the security in Europe thanks the enlargement of the Alliance or its prominent role in world’s stability and security. This has been true until Warsaw… » read more
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July 11, 2010
Frequently European Defence opponents like casting a stone to European bureaucracy and inefficiency, taking NATO as a model. Sure, it is a little bit late, nevertheless, I enjoyed reading in EUobserver.com, the article written by Valentina Pop and titled “Nato to make cutbacks amid budget crisis“. Finally, everybody admits that the duplications are in the… » read more
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On 17th June, N. Gros-Verheyde published a post on the EU battlegroups, which still meet some difficulties for being committed. I will not discuss on the usability of those units, might it be from a political point of view. In fact I would consider as any average citizen the readability of the Turkish presence within… » read more
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June 25, 2010
When French President Sarkozy decided to have France back within the NATO structure, many, at least in France, spoke about the French renouncement to its cherished independence and declared that France had sold its sold to the USA. The purpose of this post will not be to look again to this recent past, but to… » read more
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Having been involved in the construction of a European Defence at working level for a couple of years, I would like to go on, looking at its changes and progress through the prism of the various reports and press articles available on the web.
