On Fri, 18 Aug 2006, Kurt Feltenberger wrote: > >Spain is EU. Assuming a united EU military or at least some all EU-units > >for special types of operation like space stuff, spaniards can come on an > >EU ticket. And it is not so uncommon that proportionally more soldiers > >come from poorer parts of a country/nation/state. > > They'd be the spear carriers and not the officers, however. >
In case of a EU military, i don't see it as entirely unrealistic that all military careers including officers are more interesting for people from poorer EU countries. After all it's harder to start ecconomic careers there. In case of only specific forces being all-EU, a very EUish way to organize it would be to make a quota how many members of each national military may apply for the tests to enter (or how many are taken). That way officers from all EU countries should have roughly equal chances to get in. In both cases some countries will still be more equal then others even when you figure in population differences, when it comes to deciding which programm gets how much funding. Thats independent of individual officers career chances though. One mans groundfloor is an other mans earthmissle @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ Johannes Trimmel @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ _______________________________________________ GurpsNet-L mailing list <[email protected]> http://mail.sjgames.com/mailman/listinfo/gurpsnet-l
