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Thursday, November 13, 2008

The "New Balance" Of Netherlands' Armed Forces

The Dutch armed forces are on a constant process of transformation, the final objective of which is the achievement of a "new balance".

The notion of this quotation is the reduction of the size of the armed forces on the one hand and the improvement of their deployment capability on the other.

The implementation of such a program is really challenging and it is becoming even more difficult if we take into consideration the constant reduction of the Dutch defense budget.

In 2007 the Dutch defense budget was almost 1.5 per cent of GDB whereas in 1997 was 3.5 per cent.

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1 comment:

  1. Pete13/11/08 14:21

    I think the new Russian resurgence will reverse the good intention of reducing defence spending.

    Pete

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