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In Libya, it was relatively easy to bomb Muammar el-Qaddafi’s armies as they advanced through open spaces.
But Israel’s breathtaking victory against three Arab armies in 1967 brought it not only grandeur, but also moral and political decay.
Then, beginning in the spring of 1990, Germany united, the Warsaw Pact and USSR disintegrated, and countries to Germany's east, which had been the staging post for Soviet tank armies, suddenly became friends, then partners.
Germany is no longer threatened by invading armies; she is surrounded by allies in Nato and partners in the EU.
Their reasoning: Since the future is uncertain, it makes sense to retain the flexibility conscription permits, to respond both to unforeseen changes in the security environment and to shortfalls in the recruitment of volunteers; here the difficulties that allied armies are encountering which have jettisoned conscription have been a warning.
West European armies were embedded in NATO.
Why do Piemontese, Bavarians, or Scots need intermediate national bureaucracies to run their tax policies, welfare programs, securities laws, and the largely useless, duplicative armies?
In the sixteenth century, control of colonies and gold bullion gave Spain the edge; seventeenth-century Holland profited from trade and finance; eighteenth-century France gained from its larger population and armies; and nineteenth-century British power rested on its industrial primacy and its navy.
It is a necessary organizing principle that allows people to pool their resources for the common good and mobilize against common threats, whether they are floods or invading armies.
Many cynics regard democracy in India as a process that has given free rein to criminals and corrupt cops, opportunists and fixers, murderous musclemen and grasping middlemen, kickback-making politicos and bribe-taking bureaucrats, mafia dons and private armies, caste activists and religious extremists.
These men, from 90 to 102 years old, were survivors of battles fought by both the Nationalist and Communist armies.
Meanwhile, more than two million Chinese served in the Nationalist armies that resisted the Japanese invasion.
Pooling of infrastructure (bases and ports) and logistical assets (transport), including training facilities for common equipment, will generate big savings, as individual countries rationalize the long “logistical tails” of manpower and equipment that support armies in the field.
Second, whether one thinks of Al Qaeda’s terrorism or the presence of Western armies in Iraq and Afghanistan, Europe and the Islamic world have demonstrated a continuing willingness to deal violently with each other.
Perhaps most problematic, the EU is still home to 28 armies, with 28 commanders-in-chief, bound together only loosely by NATO.
I hope that it is the fact of European interdependence - an interdependence carefully constructed by Jean Monnet, Robert Schumann, Konrad Adenauer, and those who followed in their footsteps - and not the memory of the horror of World War II that has caused the armies that used to cross the Rhine in arms to vanish.
Even the Free Syrian Army is really several armies that have little prospect of unifying – and even less hope of toppling the regime.
In recent civil wars, many armies and rebel groups have not engaged in such atrocities.
Politics is necessary for the simple reason that occupying armies and police cannot force hundreds of millions of Muslims to shed their hostility.
The Arabs Look InwardAcross the Arab world, the fall of Baghdad on April 9th is seen as a day of shame, reminiscent of June 5th 1967, when Israel defeated the armies of three Arab countries, conquering the West Bank, Gaza Strip, and East Jerusalem in a mere six days.
Back then, the paramount question was: How did a small state like Israel defeat the armies of three Arab countries and occupy vast areas of Egyptian, Jordanian and Syrian territory in a few days?
As Russia struggles to bring Ukraine back into its orbit, another ancient date looms large: 1709, when Czar Peter the Great crushed the Swedish and Cossack armies at the Battle of Poltava.
They fight in armies, pay their taxes, and vote in elections.
There are only two conventional armies: the Kurdish fighters and the forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad.
Given the region’s history, Asians are skeptical about occupying Western armies.
As long as Western politicians continue to refuse to accept responsibility for creating the current quagmire – not to mention new ones, such as Libya – their armies will not inspire faith in Asia.
Even if governments try to enforce the law, companies have armies of lawyers to run circles around them.
In the sixteenth century, control of colonies and gold bullion gave Spain the edge; seventeenth-century Holland profited from trade and finance; eighteenth-century France gained from its larger population and armies; and nineteenth-century British power rested on industrial and naval primacy.
The rhetoric of the “Leave” supporters conjures up the spirit of Dunkirk in 1940 – a nation standing alone, impervious to invading armadas and armies, and always fiercely independent of Europe.
With the Cold War over, the USSR gone, and the Arab world weakened, a conventional war with the armies of Arab states is no longer likely, rendering obsolete the strategic considerations underlying Israel’s occupation of this territory.
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