German army 'plans for break up of the European Union' in war game scenario

Telegraph UK ^ | 6 November 2017 • 7:56pm

[RushIsMyTeddyBear]

IOW....”too big to fail:.

[Future Snake Eater]

[NorseViking]

Europe is not a Middle East. CAS platform like A10 and attack helicopters would not survive attrition in hi-tech environment even short term. Eastern Ukraine is a great example. It has downgraded to WWII style warfare in weeks.

[Billthedrill]

"State capitalism" is what Lenin called his New Economic Policy of 1922 once the "pure" Marxian model he'd attempted to implement fell flat on its face and nearly broke the country. Lenin actually used the rather contradictory phrase "free market regulated by the state". IIRC there were several problems with Marx's economic model early on: the managerial class did prove to be necessary and the country wasn't going to get by on factories governed by workers' soviets, and the development of new industry needed not only capital that was no longer provided by private sources, but some guidance as to where that capital was to be invested that now had to come from the State.

The problem with the latter was that state bureaucrats were not experts in the respective industries and were motivated not by profit, but by personal and institutional political power. The resulting industries were fantastically wasteful and inefficient, the planning rigid, and the results faked.

This may not be what the two-word phrase in the article actually means, though, coupled as it is with a reference to withdrawal from "globalism". It may simply refer to economies no longer regulated from Brussels and regulated from the sundry national capitals. That isn't necessarily chaotic at all; in fact, before the EU came along it was how the world worked. Why that should present a security concern is something that isn't explained in the article.

[butlerweave]

Is their Army using Rifles or Broomsticks ?

[Snickering Hound]

[PIF]

Its also worth noting that most of those Russian tank, and the best ones at that, are located along the border with China ...

[Bull Snipe]

That is what the Trans Siberian rail road is for.