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http://www.kommersant.ru/doc.aspx?DocsID=1310141Глава МИДа Сергей Лавров отреагировал на планы Вашингтона и Варшавы придвинуть размещаемые в Польше американские комплексы ПВО Patriot к российским границам. Министр заявил, что у него возникает вопрос, почему нужно обязательно делать что-то, чтобы создать впечатление, будто Польша укрепляется против России? Между тем ровно тот же вопрос Варшава адресовала Москве в прошлом году, когда военные РФ объявили о планах по усилению своей группировки на Балтике и провели прямо у польских границ крупнейшие маневры Запад-2009. И польский вопрос до сих пор остался без ответа.
Tema sõnul on Euroopas suur osa rahvast ja poliitikutest vastu sõjalise jõu kasutamisele ja sellega kaasnevatele riskidele. Euroopa demilitariseerimine oli 20. sajandil küll õnnistus, kuid takistab alanud sajandil julgeoleku ja püsiva rahu saavutamist, märkis ta.
I personally like my idea (quel surprise!) of a "Grenzer" kind of defence for the Baltic. They could be subsidized to build up forces way beyond their own capabilities. The Baltic would become militarized like Israel, probably the least unlikely method for having enough defenders in place.
I called this "Grenzer"; the Austrian-Hungarian empire had almost perpetual troubles with the Turks (Ottomans), which had proficient light cavalry capable of devastating raids even in peacetime. Their answer was to exclude the border regions from taxation and to require that the inhabitants and colonists in these regions be prepared to defend themselves in return. The model was kept for many generations; it seems to have worked. The Grenzer model allowed the empire to cut its regular army free from the Southern Border.
This model adapted to the Baltic would replace the tax exemption with subsidies (quite the same effect if you think about it; the border regions get the economic ability to sustain sufficient military power by themselves). NATO manoeuvre armies could be held back, would not need to deploy and especially not to garrison the Baltic in peacetime.
An improvement of land traffic infrastructure is highly advisable as a preparation for this and other possible peripheral conflicts. There's only one real road that connects the Baltic states and Poland, for example. Such a bottleneck is unacceptable.
It would also be worth a try to have some full brigade deployment exercises. The German, French and Polish Secretaries of Defence should phone some colleagues and get the right to deploy a brigade for the purpose of exercising (and as an experiment) sometime in the future. Then, months or years later, they should suddenly during a Saturday night decide on their own that one of their brigades should deploy ASAP.
That would become an interesting spectacle. I wouldn't expect Western or Central European Brigade to become 80% combat-ready (with supplies) in Lithuania in less than two weeks. Units with many tracked vehicles would probably take much more. An invasion on the other hand would likely be complete after a few days.
We should really go back to old habits and stress the look at the early phases of armed conflict and the prevention of conflicts. That is when you can still keep the war from taking a bloody, expensive and protracted course. The occupation phase does by comparison not even exist in many armed conflicts!
There's much to do in regard to the early phases of conflict. NATO's "counter concentration" and "multinational rapid reaction forces" approach doesn't cut it in my opinion.
http://www.militaryphotos.net/forums/sh ... ure-thread•Excercise Cold Response 10 runs from February 17th until March 4th.
•Around 8500 soldiers from 14 nations will participate.
•The main focus of the land operations will take place between Setermoen and Bjerkvik in Northern Norway. In addition, there will be naval and air activity in the Troms region and parts of Nordland in Northern Norway.
•About 1000 Special Forces soldiers will participate.
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