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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

Iceland is a key place to defend the shipping routes to Europe. Admiral Dan Gallery writes about being stationed there with patrol planes in WW2.


19 posted on 03/16/2006 12:42:24 PM PST by GAB-1955 (being dragged, kicking and screaming, into the Kingdom of Heaven....)
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To: GAB-1955

Agree with the estimate of Icelands strategic value, but it only becomes key if there is some navy capable of taking it. Currently, who in the world can threaten Iceland? No sense stationing troops based on Cold War realities - waste of manpower and money. The obvious next pull out would be Germany.


38 posted on 03/16/2006 12:48:03 PM PST by tigtog
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