Military - new material (47)
01 August 2003
British weapons in the Indonesian war in Aceh, Aguswandi & Paul Barber. Peace News no. 2452 (September-October) 2003, p. 20. Indonesia's massive military offensive in Aceh, a province of four million people on the northern tip of the island of Sumatra, has left behind a trail of civilian casualties in its asymmetrical "war on terrorism". This has not prevented the UK government supplying "key support" to the Indonesian military, in the form of Hawk aircraft and Scorpion tanks, in their attempts to crush the Free Aceh Movement. For more information contact the Indonesia Human Rights Campaign, TAPOL, +44 20 8771 2904; http://tapol.gn.apc.org
European merger era is over, David Mulholland. Janes Defence Weekly 9.7.03 pp. 20-21. According to senior executives in the European defence industry the days of big European mergers are over. There are now three major defence companies in Europe: BAE Systems, EADS and Thales. Smaller, but still sizeable, ones are DCN (France), Finmeccanica (Italy), Rolls-Royce and GKN (UK), Rheinmetall (Germany) and Saab (Sweden). BAE still does not rule out a merger with a US company but it is thought improbable that any of the US giants is interested, as many of BAE's attractive assets are tied up in joint ventures.
What model for CFSP? Hans-Georg Ehrhart. Institute for Security Studies, Chaillot Paper 55, (Paris) 2002.
Kein Abschied vom Leitbild "Zivilmacht". Die
Europaeische Sicherheits- und Verteidigungspolitik und die Zukunft Europaeischer Aussenpolitik [No goodbye to the "civil power" ideal. The European Security and Defence Policy and the future of European foreign policy], Matthias Dembinski. HSFK-Report 12 (Frankfurt) 2002.
Die Sicherheits- und Verteidigungspolitik der "Zivilmacht Europa". Ein Widerspruch in sich? [The security and defence policy of the "civil power Europe". A contradiction in terms?] Annette Juennemann, Niklas Schoerning. HSFK-Report 13 (Frankfurt) 2002.
Future of European Armaments Cooperation. Wolfgang Hermann. Europaeische Sicherheit 6/2003 pp. 23-27.
Strategic Airlift for Europe, Hermann Hagena. Europaeische Sicherheit 6/2003 pp. 48-49
NATO base cuts in new command revealed, Luke Hill. Janes Defence Weekly 11.6.03 p. 3. Includes a diagram of new the NATO command structure.