Hard to believe they want a second crack at the Eastern Front. I suppose the kids don't read the memoirs of 23rd SS Volunteer Division Panzergrenadier Nederland in school.
Cleverly worded headline.
Being directed to increase your deployment times is not the same things as being told to be ready to deploy urgently.
I still remember pics of Dutch hippies in uniform ready to oppose the Soviets as part of NATO forces. It did not exactly engender confidence.
“emphasise urgency once again”?
I assume this is just a change in policy after realizing how little prepared they are to a sudden attack by the Russians.
They’re going out to stick their thumbs in the dykes.
Russia is directly across the Baltic Sea (kalingrad). I am sure there would be a few missiles coming their way in a conflict.
While I doubt that Poland would be the “speed bump” they were in 1939, its always good to be prepared.
Well, perhaps we are seeing the rebirth of wars caused by the forces of human migration and the need for new land by those who have been displaced. The Dutch like many of those under EU tyranny have their own invasion problem. We could offer them an opportunity. If you can take Socal you can have it.
Or we could give them Washington DC so long as they leave the Smithsonian intact and don’t despoil the cherry trees.
URENTLY is an extremely deceptive word in the title and used wrongly.
The order was written by the Netherlands’ highest military officer, Onno Eichelsheim, and is meant to “emphasise urgency once again”,
IF something happens.
The title makes it sound like something IS happening.
Lie.
Defence employees.
Wiki states the Dutch military is 16,266 active duty, 3,514 civilian and 4,046 reserve, for a total of less than 24 thousand. The number in the article is like the peacock spreading its feathered plume.
The picture in the article shows combat military.
The article reads: "Soldiers must 'examine their personal readiness', for example, checking if their vaccinations are in order, and what shape their basic skills are in."
Jabbed? That proves readiness for war in Ukraine or the Baltic states?
And they’re still refusing to institute a draft.
are they going to protect Greenland?
Getting ready to help defend Greenland?
Europe is getting their wish - a world without the United States.
Since the end of WWII Europeans could sleep safely in their beds knowing that Americans would die to protect them and it would cost them nothing.
get out the windmill and get those wooden shoes on!
Maybe they think Trump is going to invade Greenland.
Hard to believe they want a second crack at the Eastern Front. I suppose the kids don't read the memoirs of 23rd SS Volunteer Division Panzergrenadier Nederland in school.
Why is western Europe so hell bent on starting WW III?
Off to defend Greenland from the Yankee invader?
Make sure they take their surrender flags. The Dutch army hasn’t successfully fought a war since the 18th century.