At 10:32 AM 8/18/2006, you wrote:
> No offense to any Spaniards on the list, but I wouldn't count Spain
> as being a first world country. Five hundred years ago, yes, but not
> in the 21st century. Second world, absolutely.
>
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.
> And of them, only one comes from a country that's currently got
> anything in the way of a military that would form the core of
> anything that might be considered a "world military". I'll give
> Japan it's due, for Japanese nationals, as they have the economy and
> ambition, but the others? I just can't see it.
>
EU people (in that case a Spaniard) can be put in for idustrial support
for the space programm (even if there is more industry in Germany,
France, Skandinavia, GB or wherever then in Spain)
If you can still make money from oil, Arabic countries might simply buy
their representants in.
If that were the case, then the navy wouldn't be as good as it was in
the book.
Kurt Feltenberger
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~Stephen Decatur
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