06-23-2003, 09:03 PM
While the EU tried, in support of UN, to stop the madness in Yugoslavia, it was not until the Brits at Gorazde in 95 that anyone simply pointed their guns at the Bosnian Serbs and said :"cross that line and we shoot" that anything really improved. It took the US to play, which took canning the inane UN dual key RoE, to make real progress. Had the stupid UN RoE been scotched in the first place, the EU, and other UN troops, like the Nordic Brigade, were perfectly capable of doing what needed doing. What was missing was intelligent means of putting a boot up the arse of the arsehole Croatians, Serbs, and Bosnian thugs at play in the sandbox.
In '99, EU had not the wherewithal to do what it took a NATO operation to do. Europe simply lacked the ability and political will to put an operation like that together. They had to have NATO, no EU, structures, since that guaranteed US hardware and lagre scale Command and Control capability. In time, if the EU and WEU et all put some resources into it, that sort of imbalance may change.
In '99, EU had not the wherewithal to do what it took a NATO operation to do. Europe simply lacked the ability and political will to put an operation like that together. They had to have NATO, no EU, structures, since that guaranteed US hardware and lagre scale Command and Control capability. In time, if the EU and WEU et all put some resources into it, that sort of imbalance may change.
Cry 'Havoc' and let slip the Men 'O War!
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
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