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National Defense will be history (Norway)
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| 05 Nov 2007, 15:16
| Sveinung Berg BentzrĂžd and Hans Marius Tonstad/Aftenposten English Reporter Jonathan Tisdall/NTB
Posted on 11/05/2007 7:54:26 AM PST by Kurt_Hectic
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What a tragedy! The norwegian socialists' wet dream is becoming a reality: a complete axing of the armed services! Same situation as in the '30ies...
To: Kurt_Hectic
Don’t worry - the USA will protect us - even as we mock them at every turn.
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posted on
11/05/2007 7:55:43 AM PST
by
2banana
(My common ground with terrorists - they want to die for islam and we want to kill them)
To: Kurt_Hectic
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posted on
11/05/2007 7:55:59 AM PST
by
Army Air Corps
(Four fried chickens and a coke)
To: Kurt_Hectic
Amazing they learned nothing from WW2.
To: Kurt_Hectic
If the loss of spending power continues the Defense will be so weakened in 25 years time that only limited units such as the Coast Guard and the Russian border guard will be fully functional - an independent, national Defense will be history," Diesen wrote.
I imagine that Vlad is taking note.
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posted on
11/05/2007 7:57:35 AM PST
by
Army Air Corps
(Four fried chickens and a coke)
To: Army Air Corps
You’re right! I am!!!!!!
Mad Vlad
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posted on
11/05/2007 7:59:07 AM PST
by
madvlad
((Born in the south, raised around the globe and STILL republican))
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To: Kurt_Hectic
We have Clinton, Pelsoi and Reid. They brought back Quisling.
Let's see if they'll swap.
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posted on
11/05/2007 8:00:56 AM PST
by
Doctor Raoul
(Columbia = Ayatollah U.)
To: Kurt_Hectic
What caused this “loss of spending power?” Is he talking about budget cuts, depreciation of the currency, .... what?
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posted on
11/05/2007 8:01:54 AM PST
by
Mind-numbed Robot
(Not all that needs to be done, needs to be done by the government.)
To: madvlad
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posted on
11/05/2007 8:06:22 AM PST
by
Army Air Corps
(Four fried chickens and a coke)
To: JackRyanCIA
Just put a turban on the guy on the left..
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posted on
11/05/2007 8:32:12 AM PST
by
sheik yerbouty
( Make America and the world a jihad free zone!)
To: Kurt_Hectic
What a tragedy! The norwegian socialists' wet dream is becoming a reality: a complete axing of the armed services! Same situation as in the '30ies...They need to raise up a figure like the old Danish/Norwegian Admiral "Tordenskjold"!!!
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posted on
11/05/2007 8:33:30 AM PST
by
danamco
(Now, I would LOVE to hear your solution as to how to remove 12 to 30 million people from this countr)
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To: Mind-numbed Robot
The socialists have always managed to make the government cut the budgets, using the “cheese slicer” principle: one slice at a time, gradually reducing the size of the units.
the situation now is that there is no more cheese to slice, if they cut more now, they have to deactivate the units. And that is what’s happening. An interesting stealth MTB, “SKJOLD”, was supposed to consist of 6 units, but now they are axing them. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skjold_class_patrol_boat
In addition, the new 5 NANSEN-class fregattes seems to have to run on a skeleton-budget, coupled with the fact that it is unsure whether they will be rigged with SPY-1 and AEAGIS.
As for the purchase of 48 JSFs as a replacement of 58 (more or less operative) F-16s: that might be in the blue if the socialists get their will.
I fear for the situation: Russian bombers are on missions in the North-sea almost every day, and the Russians are preparing to exploit the Barents Sea for oil: A huge part of that area is covered by the Norwegian economic area around Svalbard, which is disputed by the russians, together with the disputed area between the territorial lines in the sea outside Norwegian main-land and russian main-land. How will Norway be able to enforce national sovereignty?
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posted on
11/05/2007 8:38:04 AM PST
by
Kurt_Hectic
(Trust only what you see, not what you hear)
To: Slapshot68
Nuetrality is nice - Blessed are the peacemakers. BUT, they need to defend their nuetrality. Liberals want us to believe that one simply needs to “do good” and stop mucking-around in other nations’ affairs will keep a nationa safe. WRONG. There have been predatory nations and empires since the start of time who do not respect a nations’ “good deeds” or neutrality. Nuetrality and non-interference did not protect the Tibetans in 1951, the Laotians in the 1960’s, the Finns and Belgians in both World Wars, The Lebanese now, etc, etc... The Swiss are actively nuetral, but nearly every young man in the country takes some military training, and belongs to a unit to which he will be called in emergency.
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11/05/2007 8:53:09 AM PST
by
PGR88
To: Kurt_Hectic
How will Norway be able to enforce national sovereignty?They will be taking the French approach. Waving white flags and studying Russian so they can understand the commands of their new masters. Those that fail to study history are doomed to repeat it.
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11/05/2007 8:56:33 AM PST
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Myrddin
To: PGR88
When Hitler threatened to invade Switzerland with twice as many soldiers as the Swiss had in their army, they replied that they would have to shoot twice. Hitler understood the Swiss marksman were not going to allow him to invade.
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posted on
11/05/2007 8:59:26 AM PST
by
Myrddin
To: Kurt_Hectic
German Troops in Oslo, 1940
To: Kurt_Hectic
Thank you for the explanation. Leftists are the same the world over. Carter and the Clintons cut and starved our military in a similar way.
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posted on
11/05/2007 10:02:41 AM PST
by
Mind-numbed Robot
(Not all that needs to be done, needs to be done by the government.)
To: JackRyanCIA
They may have been heaving their buttocks Heavenward in the masjid..
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posted on
11/05/2007 9:41:17 PM PST
by
sheik yerbouty
( Make America and the world a jihad free zone!)
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