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NATO Land Forces Losing Combat Capacity, New Essay Finds

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Defense Daily International, 2014

Potomac: Access Intelligence, LLC

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    NATO Land Forces Losing Combat Capacity, New Essay Finds
  • Autor: 17
  • Assuntos: Budgets ; Cold War ; Defense ; Defense industry ; GDP ; Gross Domestic Product ; Helicopters ; Military aspects ; Military strategy
  • É parte de: Defense Daily International, 2014
  • Descrição: NATO has no equal in terms of gross domestic product and has the world's largest aggregate defense sector, but declining defense budgets and dwindling public support for complex foreign deployments are leaving land forces with fewer people and equipment, according to a new essay. Since the 1990s, most NATO members have professionalized and modernized their land forces, but smaller forces mean risks in future missions, said the essay, "NATO's Land Forces: Losing Ground," by Guillaume Lasconjarias, part of the National Security Outlook in the American Enterprise Institute's Hard Power series. Professionalizing forces after the Cold War brought change. "Throughout the alliance, units are being disbanded, facilities closed and territorial defense structures reviewed," he said. In just one example, between 1996 and 2013, the French army decreased from 268,572 people to just more than 119,000. The declining budget also contributed to fewer forces. At the same time, fewer forces limit the possible operational commitments a government can make as well as the size of those commitments, Lasconjarais said. National commitments show fewer forces available as a government option. Poland, which had been heavily involved in Iraq and Afghanistan, "seems to be abandoning expeditionary capacity in favor of solely territorial deployment," he wrote.
  • Editor: Potomac: Access Intelligence, LLC
  • Idioma: Inglês
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