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by Amorphous Blob on January 15th, 2008
Good personnel and training, very good equipment, but no political ability to use it (even for armed peacekeeping if I'm not mistaken), and virtually no projection capability to send it anywhere on their own. Which is a good thing - it's nice to have boring European history for a while.
So covering your body with a grenade actually works in war time?
by Friendly Stranger on August 19th, 2011
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What does the term "washout" mean? It was written on multiple days in a journal kept by a soldier during WWI. Must be a military term?
by mgprokosch on July 13th, 2011
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What's the difference between PJ's and Combat Control teams?
by supergirelelone on September 28th, 2011
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Instead of repealing don't ask don't tell, should they have expanded it to include straights?
by Have A Nice Day on August 21st, 2011
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Should Generals, and possibly Special Forces, be allowed to execute commoners who insult them, Bushido/chivalry style?
by Have A Nice Day on August 3rd, 2011
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Be sure- it will stay this like for ever.
Nobody in Germany wants to have any German troops outside of the country.
German troops never will have to do anything outside of Germany and like most Germans I am strictly against any engagement in foreign regions even if other countries ask for it or not.
Problems outside of Germany should never be a German problem and so I am also against the engagement in Afghanistan as well as the stupid maritime engagement against some pirates in Africa.
There are enough nations who love to have big armies and navies and who love to engage all over the world and therefore can make it better.
by Frederik on August 16th, 2009
If the US had taken that attitude before Pearl Harbor... oops, we did. It gave bad guys like the Axis powers free reign to come close to winning the war. Problems outside Germany won't be German problems until suddenly they are. There are still lots of bad guys in the world. Not that I'm saying the US is very intelligent at foreign policy very often.
by Amorphous Blob on August 16th, 2009
But first of all the bad guys have quite different and more important targets as Germany which is really very unimportant in regard to the rest of the world.
The big risks have quite different and much more important nations in the world.
Germany is too unimportant in the whole world that anybody would chose jusyt Germany as a target.
by Frederik on August 16th, 2009
But shouldn't it do its part to help defend common interests? The alternative is appeasement, which didn't work in the late 1930s.
by Amorphous Blob on August 17th, 2009
Germany has to do nothing at all. I can see not any common interests.
Germany has to look for its own problems and the problems of other countries are never our problems.
What other countries think about us, we know meanwhile very well and so most of us do not care at all what people in other countries might think or not.
Germany has only to look straight on its own interests and the interests of other countries are never our business.
We should keep off getting mixed into any foreign affairs and let all the other bigger nations do as they like or not.
As I said already that Germany being a quite small and quite unimportant political power in the world theatre, nobody will need our help nor our advice.
Germany is smaller than Texas so that you see how unimportant and small our country is.
We have nothing to defend for ourselves because nobody in the world wants to attack us. We are not even a target of Al Kaida.
How other countries deal with that is their own problem.
by Frederik on August 17th, 2009