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Slipping away
I know you don't like blog postings, but EU Referendum has a lot of good [defense integration] stuff:In terms of strategic alliances, it is a given that one of our most steadfast allies is Australia, tied by bonds of blood and Empire, having fought alongside us in two World Wars. However, as the UK turns more and more to the inwards-looking EU, with its "European defence identity", and its European Rapid Reaction Force â a European Army in all but name â things out in the big wide world are changing. And one of those changes is the forging of a strategic alliance between the United States and Australia, leaving to UK out in the cold. We saw some of this during the Tsunami disaster earlier this year, when Australia and the US were two of the main players in the immediate relief effort, with the UK nowhere to be seen. Now, in a move that is being seen as the latest chapter in the deepening strategic partnership between the Royal Australian Navy and its US counterpart, the Australian government has ordered an upgraded version of the US Navy's Arleigh Burke-class anti-aircraft destroyer to become the Australian Navy's new front-line warship for the 21st Century.... --SNIP-- Posted by: anonymous2u 2005-08-19 |
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