Military - new material (28)
01 March 1999
NATO: United we stand?. Clifford Beal. Jane's Defence Weekly 3.3.99, pp 22-23. The NATO Washington summit meeting could prove a contentious birthday party.
Balkan endgame? Richard Bessett. Jane's Defence Weekly 31.3.99, pp 22-25. What are the options for a settlement on the ground?
Will NATO go global?, Marc Rogers. Jane's Defence Weekly 14.4.99, pp24-26. One of the biggest issues confronting NATO-members at the 50th anniversary summit is the possible geographic extension of its field of operations beyond the defence of its members borders.
Fusionsverhandlungen zwischen British Aerospace und DASA [Mer?ger talks between British Aerospace and DASA]. AMI 1999/1, pp24-26.
Strategiodebatte in de NATO - von verteidigungs-zum Interventionsbuendnis [Debate on NATO strategy - from defence to intervention alliances), Jan Xurpan. AMI 1999/2 pp15-21.
Multinational Corps Northeast - Osterweiterung light? [Eastern expansion light?]. AMI 1999/3 pp15-20. In April the first common military staff of a German-Danish/Polish army corps will be established in Szczecin.
Eurofor und Euromarfor: NATO-Suedflanke auf Interventionskurs [NATO's southern flank on intervention course]. AMI 1999/3 pp10-20. France, Spain, Italy and Portugal have established common rapid deployment forces.
Ruestungszusammenarbeit mit Osteuropaeischen Staaten [Arms cooperation with east European states], Elmar Rauch. Europaeishe Wehrkunde 1999/2 pp33-35. Military-industrial relati?ons between Germany and her eastern neighbours.
La Force d'extraction de l'OTAN [The NATO extraction force], Yves Debay. RAIDS no 154 (March) 1999, pp9-21. On NATO troops in Macedonia ready to intervene in Kosovo.
Morality? Don't make me laugh, John Pilger. Guardian 20.4.99. On the "humanitarian" bombing of the former Yugoslavia. Pilger reminds us that the Blair/Clinton alliance has nothing to with "moral purpose" (Blair) nor "principles of humanity" (Clinton), but is a continuation and expansion of Thatcher's military industrial arms trade.
Parliamentary debates
Christopher Young Commons 24.2.99. cols. 347-354
Armed Forces Lords 24.2.99. cols 1188-1230
NATO Lords 3.3.99. cols. 1718-1742
Gulf War Illness Lords 24.3.99. cols 1381-1387
Gulf War Illness Lords 24.3.99. cols 1397-1412
Kosovo Commons 31.3.99. cols. 1204-1218
Kosovo Lords 13.4.99. cols. 633-647