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daftandbarmy said:And all that without the 2nd amendment? Amazing....
D&B:
What do you reckon impact on recruiting and retention would be of "Free Bullets Every Saturday!"?
daftandbarmy said:And all that without the 2nd amendment? Amazing....
NATO: “Albania, Italy, Poland and Slovenia will contribute to the Canadian-led battalion in Latvia”
https://cgai3ds.wordpress.com/2016/10/26/mark-collins-nato-albania-italy-poland-and-slovenia-will-contribute-to-the-canadian-led-battalion-in-latvia/
Albania, Italy, Poland and Slovenia will contribute to the Canadian-led battalion in Latvia
Chris Pook said:D&B:
What do you reckon impact on recruiting and retention would be of "Free Bullets Every Saturday!"?
Eclectic, but there's potential for access to some decent wine, sausage and plum brandy, though ...George Wallace said:That is an interesting mix.
MarkOttawa said:Canadian-led Latvia battalion looks a bit of a dog's breakfast:
Edit--the map:
Mark
Ottawa
That is an interesting mix.
I'm just curious as to why they decided to make some nations pull double duty.George Wallace said:That is an interesting mix.
France is supporting only one battalion at a time; hence the dates.Altair said:The French are supporting two separate battalions ....
Makes sense.Journeyman said:France is supporting only one battalion at a time; hence the dates.
Jarnhamar said:Is Latvia nicer than Estonia?
That's an interesting read - the same could be said about some Ukrainians, too. Both EST & LVA had pro-German auxiliaries and Waffen SS units, so how do you see the difference now?Lightguns said:Estonia celebrates their short NAZI past as freedom fighters, Latvians not so much.
... The Erna Raid commemorates the actions of the Erna long-range reconnaissance group in the summer of 1941. The Erna group, consisting of Estonian volunteers, had participated in the Finnish-Russian Winter War of 1939-1940, helping their Finnish “cousins” to fight against Soviet aggression. The members of this reconnaissance unit had sworn allegiance to Finland and its military commander, General Mannerheim. Despite German pressure, they refused to swear allegiance to Hitler, and were not part of the Nazi armed forces. In the summer of 1941, the Erna reconnaissance group landed behind Soviet lines on the northern coast of Estonia. At the end of July they held a fierce battle against numerically superior Soviet forces, in the process helping thousands of local civilians to avoid falling victim to Soviet persecution ...
Any reading recommendations welcome - thanks for the further backgrounding.Lightguns said:Read an interesting book published by SS Estonian Veterans living in ..... Canada.
milnews.ca said:Any reading recommendations welcome - thanks for the further backgrounding.
Living in a community with a lot of post-WW2 immigration from Ukraine and Croatia, I get a sense of what you mean there.
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NATO's plan is to set up four battle groups with a total of some 4,000 troops from early next year, backed by a 40,000-strong rapid-reaction force, and if need be, follow-on forces.
As part of that, U.S. Secretary of Defense Ash Carter announced a "battle-ready battalion task force" of about 900 soldiers would be sent to eastern Poland, as well as another, separate force equipped with tanks and other heavy equipment to move across eastern Europe.
"It's a major sign of the U.S. commitment to strengthening deterrence here," Carter said.
Britain's Defence Secretary Michael Fallon said Britain would send an 800-strong battalion to Estonia, supported by French and Danish troops, starting from May. The United States wants its troops in position by June.
London is also sending Typhoon fighter aircraft to Romania to patrol around the Black Sea, partly in support of Turkey...
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-nato-russia-idUSKCN12P31W
These guys use a lot of exclamation points in their headlines ...Terrorist Organization NATO And It’s Military Massing On The Russian Border, Including Albanian And Croatian Ustashi Forces !
A day after reports terrorist organization NATO was soliciting even more ground troops for their deployment into Eastern Europe, officials are reporting “progress” in recruiting more troops from more member nations to participate in the deployment, intended to be around 40,000 troops along the Baltic states, near Russia’s border.
Fascist NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg claimed to have been “very inspired” by the response of nations he sought troops from, after yesterday’s report quoted diplomats as saying the deployment was meant to both “confront” Russia and to undercut Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump’s complaints NATO isn’t participating enough in its own defense.
The new participants in the deployment include Albania, Slovenia, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Croatia (Ustashi) , Belgium, and Norway. The size of individual deployments from different nations is unclear, but there will be four battalions, and the US is expected to provide the majority.
With all these troops headed to the Baltic coast, reports out of Russia’s media suggest that they are planning some new warship deployments into their Baltic Fleet, with an eye toward enhancing their targeting capacity along the shore.