Barkeley Rosser to Charles: >Also, now that it is going, >the US military-industrial complex is enjoying the higher >earnings and saying "go go go," although they were not >behind its initiation, I don't think, At the XIIth NATO Workshop on Political-Military Decision Making in 1995, Dr. Wolfgang Piller of Daimler-Benz Aerospace AG gave a talk entitled "European Prerequisites for Transatlantic Cooperation." Piller said, among other things: ***** n. Markets in Europe, like those in the U.S., are sinking rapidly; government budgets for procurement have been sharply reduced. But the fragmented national industries in Europe have and will become critical much faster than their U.S. competitors, who can merge and concentrate on the home market (which is still a large one) in their huge unified country. To sum up, then, there is no alternative to thinking and acting together in the framework of an industrial and political division of labor: what we need is a unified, consolidated European market that includes the new democracies of Central Europe.... <http://www.csdr.org/95Book/Piller.htm> ***** I don't think that European arms manufacturers have achieved their objectives in the Balkans, but certainly they have been behind the creation of a "New NATO" whose primary raison d'etre is offensive military actions (billed as 'humanitarian') _outside_ the NATO countries. Yoshie
