Werte Leserinnen und Leser,

überschattet von der Corona-Misere sind die Vorbereitungen für die zukünftigen Kriege in Europa voll im Gange. Auf einen aufschlussreichen Artikel von Friedhelm Klinkhammer und Volker Bräutigam vom 23.5.2021 möchte ich deshalb aufmerksam machen. In diesem Zusammenhang ist auch der Beitrag von Wolfgang Effenberger vom 22.5.2021 besonders wichtig.

 

Politiker und Medien orientieren auf Krieg

Journalismus unter aller Kanone / Die Tagesschau ist nicht so schlimm wie BILD und Süddeutsche, aber schlimm genug  

Von Friedhelm Klinkhammer und Volker Bräutigam

Veröffentlicht am 23.5.2021

„‘Gorbi, Gorbi!‘ Hunderttausende feierten im Juni 1989 in Bonn Staatsgast Michail Gorbatschow, auch die Politiker waren hin und weg.“ (1)

Zwölf Jahre später, im September 2001, sprach Gorbatschows Nach-Nachfolger Vladimir Putin im Reichstag in Berlin über deutsch-russische Freundschaft, auf Deutsch. Und wieder war das Publikum begeistert und berührt. „Unvergessene Szenen“, betitelte der Sender Phoenix die Videoaufzeichnung des Auftritts. (2) Es war einmal … Die Zeiten ändern sich. Dass Staatspräsident Putin und sein Land heute von unseren Massenmedien mit so viel Feindseligkeit bedacht werden, hat allerdings sehr viel mehr mit wertewestlicher NATO-Aggressivität und dem Versagen des öffentlich-rechtlichen Rundfunks zu tun als mit Putins aktueller Politik.

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Auf das folgende Projekt wird in dem oben aufgeführten Artikel hingewiesen:

 

The CEPA Military Mobility Project

Moving Mountains for Europe’s Defense

Report by the CEPA Task Group

By Heinrich Brauss, Ben Hodges, Julian Lindley-French

March 2021

The CEPA Military Mobility Project

 

Our Mission: The Center for European Policy Analysis (CEPA)’s mission is to ensure a strong and enduring transatlantic alliance rooted in democratic values and principles with strategic vision, foresight, and policy impact. Through cutting-edge research, analysis, and programs we provide fresh insight on energy, security, and defense to government officials and agencies; we help transatlantic businesses navigate changing strategic landscapes; and we build networks of future Atlanticist leaders. CEPA is a nonpartisan, nonprofit, public policy institution.

Board of Directors: https://cepa.org/board-of-directors/

Our people: https://cepa.org/our-people/

Our Military Mobility Workshop Partners:

– General Dynamics European Land Systems

– Raytheon Missiles & Defense

– ACROW

– Rheinmetall Defence

– Deutsche Bahn

– Oshkosh Defense

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

The Military Mobility Project, launched by the Washington-based Center for European Policy Analysis (CEPA), is designed to promote the establishment of the multiplicity of conditions (legal and regulatory standards, infrastructure and military requirements, the management of risks to the security of transiting forces) needed to enable, facilitate, and improve military mobility across Europe. The project focused on five different political-military scenarios each of which was examined by a multinational working group in a series of military mobility workshops that took place between September and October 2020. Their purpose was to generate a number of substantial recommendations that, if implemented, would advance military mobility across Europe.

In an address to the Plenary Military Mobility Workshop in October 2020, Adm. Rob Bauer, the Netherlands’ chief of defense, identified the key challenges posed to his country as a transit nation for moving military forces: the need for improved infrastructure; clear and agreed rules and regulations (for dangerous goods, customs, cross-border movement permissions); military mobility relevant command and control (C2); the establishment of a 24/7 network of national points of contact across NATO and the European Union (EU), respectively; the establishment of Territorial Command authorities by transit and host nations to facilitate smooth movements along multimodal movement corridors, properly supported by logistic hubs; and the fostering of digital support and protection. This report seeks to address these and related challenges that military mobility faces in Europe in general.1

The Project’s Primary Message

Europe’s security environment changed fundamentally in 2014 as a consequence of Russia’s aggression against Ukraine and its illegal annexation of Crimea. Since then, NATO has placed renewed emphasis on deterrence and defense and made a significant effort to strengthen its posture. In view of Russia’s now-entrenched policy of constant confrontation, its use of hybrid warfare in both peacetime and during crises, as well as its growing military potential close to NATO’s borders, the Alliance must consider the simultaneous and parallel defense of several regions all of which could be at risk in a crisis with Russia. These regions stretch from Northern Norway and the North Atlantic through the Baltic Sea and Black Sea Regions to the Mediterranean. Specifically, NATO must further enhance its responsiveness and agility as well as the readiness of its military forces and be able to deploy them rapidly to provide timely reinforcement of allies in a crisis or a military conflict. Speed is of the essence. NATO also remains committed to responding effectively to crises beyond the Alliance’s borders. Given the risk that such crises could escalate rapidly, the ability to respond speedily over distance is also important.

The EU seeks to become a geopolitical actor and advance, in time, toward a so-called European Defense Union. While the EU’s focus is on the conduct of effective civil-military crisis management beyond Europe, its ability to act effectively will also require the rapid movement of forces across Europe prior to their deployment to crisis regions adjacent to the bloc’s borders and beyond. The security environment is also marked by the return of geopolitical great-power competition. One consequence of China’s rapid rise to global power status is the shift taking place in the U.S. strategic center of gravity toward the Indo-Pacific region. The United States’ European allies and partners will thus have to spend significantly more both on deterrence and defense in Europe and effective crisis management in North Africa and the Middle East.

Against this strategic background, both NATO and the EU have a clear common responsibility to establish the conditions needed for the expeditious movement of military forces throughout Europe. The primary strategic purpose of military mobility is to move forces and resources rapidly over distance and by so doing afford the political and military leadership of the Alliance options to enhance deterrence and defense or engage in effective military crisis management beyond NATO’s borders. Effective cooperation between the EU and NATO over military mobility would further strengthen transatlantic cohesion by contributing to equitable burden sharing.

Principal Factors

There are three principal factors that should drive all efforts to improve military mobility across and within Europe: high-level engagement, effective military planning, and the adoption of a whole-of-government approach. Engagement is needed at the highest levels of NATO, the EU, and European capitals, and in both the political and military domains, to lay the foundational conditions for military mobility. This is both an urgent military requirement and a political necessity. Effective military planning for the deployment of forces across Europe both in a crisis and war must take better account of national and EU legislation and regulations. There is also a vital need to exercise and test coordination and to deconflict processes prior to any emergency to ensure they function under duress and can thus meet planning timelines. Effective and rapid military mobility also demands a whole-of-government approach in all enabling nations. This would necessarily involve (inter alia) ministries of defense, interior, and transportation, as well as those private sector leaders responsible for air, rail, road, and port facilities. Fostering a whole-of-government military mobility culture through preestablished relationships will be particularly important in transit and host nations.

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