"BUFDRVR" a écrit dans le message de news:
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France, Germany Belgium and Luxemburg are actually planning on creating
a 3rd planning and command center on Belgium (at Tervuren).

Will that mean the current WEU staff at Mons (NATO staff officers) will
cease
to exist?

As strange as it sounds....no. This new HQ would be independant from the
WEU; it would be based on the current mini-HQ deployed by european states
in Macedonia and Congo. I think it's because WUE/NATO missions are strictly
limited (the famous Petersberg missions) to peacekeeping and conflict
prevention. If we want to go beyond these misisons we're on our own, hence
this new HQ. Someday. I hope.


I really can't see how a military-political union can have military
planning
staff that includes non-members.

This is were the CJTF idea is nonsense. *Sometimes* if you can't do
something alone, it's better not to ask your neighbor for help.

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