Just as the
DVD remake is on the market of the famed Abel Gance classic film, "Napoleon"
from 1927, renewed with full score and careful retouching, the EU has announced
its long flagged, if that is the right word, Euro Army.
What the Euro Army
is for is not certain. How much use it will be for combating the terrorism that
is the threat is a question. Is it a plan by France to recover her lost Empire
in the Middle East and North Africa? Who will make the ultimate command
decisions?
The most
likely purpose is to have a means of holding on to the lands of Eastern Europe
that were gulled into linking with the EU. Given the choice between dictated to
by Brussels or Moscow it is not
surprising that many of the peoples there prefer Moscow.
Also in the
news is the problem that The Brigade of Guards has in recruiting. This leading
part of the British Army is the one the provides much of the ceremonial as well
as security role of The Army in London.
If they become
too short of men, sorry, persons, then real changes will have to considered.
Perhaps the EU
could provide us with a regiment of Zouaves, see Wikipedia, to take over
Chelsea Barracks and do the job?
The Euro Army is a box for ticking, but the really important point is that it will generate many more boxes.
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