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SWISS NAVY MEETS EUROPEAN ARMY.(comment on the possibility of creating an European defense force)(Brief Article)
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July 01, 2001 |
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From a recent lecture by former assistant secretary of defense and current AEI scholar Richard Perle at London's Centre for Policy Studies:
There has been a great deal of discussion in recent months about the effort of European Union members to establish for themselves a European defense force outside of NATO.
It is hard to get excited about bureaucratic contemplations of non-existent European military forces that would be pressed into the service of a non-existent common European foreign policy in instances where NATO had opted out.
What really seems to be at work here is a French-led plan to marginalize the Americans in Europe while keeping us sufficiently engaged so as to retain the military, intelligence, and logistic resources that ...
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