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• Das Stück Verlogenheit in der österreichischen Sicherheitspolitik (Leitartikel)
  
  https://www.diepresse.com/6113737/das-s ... itspolitik

theoderich hat geschrieben: ↑Fr 18. Mär 2022, 10:35 Wofür braucht das Militär eigentlich Panzer?

https://www.diepresse.com/6113351/wofue ... ich-panzer

The special status states fall into three groups according to the challenges they pose to the EU: the “non-aligned in name only” (Finland and Sweden); the “odd one out” (Denmark); and the “strategic schnorrers” (Austria, Ireland, and Malta).

Free-rider for life: Austria’s inability to fulfil its defence commitments
Gustav Gressel

...The Soviet Union wanted to make Austria a role model for other European states to withdraw from the formation of NATO, while the US tried to buy time to build up a more resilient state apparatus. In the end, they both failed: Austria was neither a role model for anyone else nor a resilient neutral state that could take care of its own security, such as Switzerland.

Unlike Finland, Sweden, Switzerland, and Yugoslavia, Austria would not have tried to defend itself independently if the cold war in Europe ever turned hot. In the event of a conflict, the army was set to symbolically “fire five shots at the border”, as former foreign minister and chancellor Leopold Figl put it. And then Austria would de facto rely on NATO’s interest in defending or liberating the country for the sake of its own security (though Vienna always overestimated its willingness to do so).

This complacency nearly ended in disaster. When in 1968 Warsaw Pact troops intervened in Czechoslovakia, they also prepared a further advance into Austria. To this day, it is still unclear exactly when and why the Soviet leadership decided that “Operation Danube” (the codename for the intervention) did not reach the river for which it was named. Despite engaging in a deep reform of its armed forces and military doctrine thereafter, Austria never invested enough resources in its defence to be sufficiently resilient....

theoderich hat geschrieben: ↑So 20. Mär 2022, 09:49 Ministerin Tanner & General Brieger
"Wir werden gerade brutal in die Wirklichkeit zurückgeholt"

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