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So it would be pointless if each member can decide to deploy their troops the way they want, might as well keep national armies.
by dudul 5y ago
So it would be pointless if each member can decide to deploy their troops the way they want, might as well keep national armies.
- nradov 5y agoThe point is in having a standing general staff and standard operating procedures, reinforced by periodic joint training exercises. This allows for taking action much faster, with lower risk of errors versus starting from scratch for each operation. In practice a prospective EU military would probably just copy most aspects of NATO, just with a slightly different set of missions and member states.