Is there a Dutch approach ?

[Ken White]

I will also offer an additional Item:

"...the coming battlefield in the potential arena of conflict (republics bordering Russia – Iran, Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan – Middle East – Northern part of Africa)."

That seems to suggest that those regions will be a battlefield.

Why must that be so?

It seems to me that if the flexibility that you desire (and which many others have noted is needed) but do not offer suggestions to obtain were present, such conflicts could be averted. There seem little question that they should be ...