grand strategy: NATO vs Abian

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http://sargasso.nl/archief/2008/02/23/nato-wordt-een-beetje-funny-in-the-head/

Er is een Nederlandse generaal b.d. die een NATO preemptive nucleair
strike propageert tegen opkomende nucleaire staten:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henk_van_den_Breemen

Kan D66 hier kamervragen over stellen?

De enige grand strategy die ik serieus neem is die van Alexander Abian:

			BLOW UP THE MOON

http://www.french-news.com/content/view/2560/210/lang,en/

Monday, 18 February 2008

Military chiefs in five Western countries have called for Nato to accept
the need for pre-emptive nuclear strikes against any would-be nuclear power.
Eyebrows were raised when a report calling for a change in NATO’s
organisation and methods was jointly drafted by General John
Shalikashvili, General Klaus Naumann, General Henk van den Breemen,
Admiral Jacques Lanxade and Lord Inge.
According to ‘The Guardian’ newspaper, the five echoed the views of
senior NATO officials, who cannot speak out themselves.
The report called for a “grand strategy” and claimed that “a
first-strike” nuclear option remains an “indispensable instrument” as
there is “no realistic prospect of a nuclear-free world”.
“The first use of nuclear weapons must remain in the quiver of
escalation as the ultimate instrument to prevent the use of weapons of
mass destruction,” they wrote. Particularly drastic is their demand for
a directorate and an end to consensus decision-taking in favour of
majority voting. The military chiefs complain of EU “obstruction” and
rivalry with NATO and call for the right for the alliance to act
militarily without the consent of the United Nations Security Council
when “immediate action is needed to protect large numbers of human beings”.
The report has been virulently attacked by former Reagan Assistant
Treasury Secretary Paul Craig Roberts. “The West must nuke other
countries in order to prevent the use of weapons of mass destruction! In
Westernspeak, the West nuking other countries does not qualify as the
use of weapons of mass destruction,” he commented.
The recommendations reflect a growing fear in Nato circles that the war
in Afghanistan is unwinnable and that the alliance’s credibility is at
stake and must be bolstered by drastic changes in its organisation and
military policy.
It is unlikely that five such prominent military figures would speak out
unless they reflected the views of their governments.

Who are they?
• General John Shalikashvili,
former chairman of the US joint chiefs-of-staff and Nato’s ex-supreme
commander in Europe
• General Klaus Naumann, Germany’s former military chief and ex-chairman
of Nato’s military committee
• General Henk van den Breemen, a former Dutch chief-of-staff
• Admiral Jacques Lanxade, a former French chief-of-staff
• Lord Inge, field marshal and ex-chief of the Defence staff

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