By Charles Wolf
Will the ecu Union have the assets to improve the services of the speedy response strength within the coming decade?
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Instead, they argue that potential military claims on additional resources generated by economic growth rank well below competing claimants, including debt reduction and tax reduction, as well as social and “green” programs. In support of this view, they cite the fact that German defense spending has decreased (although the Germans aver that they will offset this by “investing more wisely” in the future) and that there have been evident shortfalls in meeting both DCI and ESDP commitments. Apart from resources that might be generated from economic growth, a second source could, in principle, be reallocations in existing government budgets from nondefense to defense purposes—for example, from public subsidization of agriculture or from various entitlements.
S. S. 6 ______________ 5 Article 4 of the Treaty does provide a way of avoiding this constraint. S. Ambassador to NATO, in his technical review of this study, avers that “Article 6 in no way limits the discretionary role of NATO forces” acting beyond the treaty’s geographic area. In his view, if the EU countries as well as the United States were “unanimous in wanting to act beyond Europe,” it would be “virtually inconceivable” that the resulting joint operations would not become a NATO operation.
Specifically, we have used as a building ______________ 4 Reiner Huber and Bernhard Schmidt, The Challenge for Defense Reform in Europe: Conclusions from an Analysis of Defense Budgetary and Conceptual Constraints on European NATO Forces, The Potomac Foundation, McLean, Virginia, 2000. Dr. Huber is Professor of Applied System Science at the Federal Armed Forces University in Munich, Germany, and Bernhard Schmidt is a captain in the German Army. , p. 17. S. Marine expeditionary brigade (MEB) and the associated amphibious shipping and airlift to deploy it to a distant theater.