05-29-2003, 05:21 PM
Quote:BTW, what's the materiel cost of a small joint NATO exercise?
By joint, I assume you mean air, sea, and land lasting 3-5 days. My last recollection is that the cost, and by that I refer only to fuel and travel costs associated, would be in the arena of 8-15 million dollars, but the trouble with that figure is how costs are declared, and what is 'cost offered' and cost applied to NATO funding lines. Small to me would be between a bn and brigade level op from two or three nations, less than 10 ships, and at most three aircraft squadrons.
I am sorry, but the answer is sadly too complex in accounting for me to give any straighter answer than I did, and most of my finance experience was on the infrastructure side, not the operations side.
FWIW: Some 100 million dollars of NATO infrastructure money was spent in Bosnia, a non NATO nation, in 1995-1997. I find that little tid bit most interesting, considering some of the paltry sums I was after for funds to dredge the shipping channel in Rota, Spain . . .
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In War, the outcome is never final. --Carl von Clausewitz--
Igitur qui desiderat pacem, praeparet bellum
John 11:35 - consider why.
In Memory of Pete