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A German general, Uhle-Wettler (one of the few notable German military theory authors since the 60's) has recounted meetings at SHAPE in one of his books.

He depicted German officers as openly...

The British military problems and resulting inadequacy of British military policy can be summarised quite concisely in my opinion:

Their willingness to tax the rich's incomes is not sufficient to...

Some governments pay too much attention to maintaining relationships and cooperations of nebulous value.

It's as if they knew from an inexplicable source that a certain cooperation makes sense,...

That's what people in government pay are supposed to do; work to make stupid policies work.

It's not a "reality" outsiders need to face. To them, stupid policy is just that and may deserve to be...

Concerning "Libya":

I suppose we have a different idea of what a military force is supposed to be capable of.

Extended cruise missile diplomacy does not rank high on my list.


There's...

This sounds confused.

The U.S.'s allies have plenty to fill up a sizeable share of "security responsibility".
OK; Luxembourg has only a battalion and some AWACS and Iceland only has bases and a...

Germany attempted a two-speed military in the 90's until recently.
In the end, the higher readiness, deployable part of the military got about what it needed (normal business) and the rest was...

The Royal Marines have somewhat elevated quality ambitions, comparable to the army's paras. It is often advisable to keep the authorised personnel of such quality units few in order to
(1) maintain...

Germany did split its army (and to some degree also its air force) into crisis reaction and other forces. It sucked.

Budget was tight, so crisis reaction forces got adequate personnel and almost...

Oh, 2nd half of 90's all over again.

I wonder why quantity isn't the primary concern for such environments because of the short lines of sight and fire.

Casualties - especially POWs - might be a problem. The problem also applies to soldiers, but to send unarmed personnel into hot zones is even more difficulty. The political responsibility is the key...

Why?
It's an internal struggle of Nigeria, a civil war. I see absolutely no reason why other countries should get involved.
For what? For oil? Oil supply would not be driven up to maximum capacity...