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  • Where after Chad?

    Once the DF withdraw from Chad & Kosovo (and reduced in Bosnia), the DF will need somewhere to serve.

    Ideally the Government will be looking at a "blue-helmet" mission as we don't have the money to do the likes of EU or NATO (UN-mandated) missions on a big scale.

    So where next?

  • #2
    The main possibility I think would include:

    Lebanon, Liberia, Sudan, Congo & Darfur

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    • #3
      Is it not a case of waiting for a request from the Security Council to take part in a mission that is about to begin. Have we ever joined a mission that was already underway???

      If so is it not simply a case of shortlisting the places the UN are likely to ride into next

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      • #4
        Originally posted by DeV View Post
        The main possibility I think would include:

        Lebanon, Liberia, Sudan, Congo & Darfur
        Cyprus and Haiti

        the Golan heights
        Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
        Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
        The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere***
        The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
        The best lack all conviction, while the worst
        Are full of passionate intensity.

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        • #5
          Originally posted by CS Gass View Post
          Is it not a case of waiting for a request from the Security Council to take part in a mission that is about to begin.
          Yes but these are the countries with missions which are currently understrength.

          Have we ever joined a mission that was already underway???
          Not sure actually with regard to the UN (with regard to UN-mandated, we weren't a founding nation of KFOR or IFOR).

          If so is it not simply a case of shortlisting the places the UN are likely to ride into next
          Very short list.... how long did it take to get into Darfur?

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          • #6
            It won't be anywhere near Afghanistan.. It will be somewhere where the UN are paying the costs..not us.
            Last edited by Craghopper; 29 July 2010, 21:12. Reason: My grammar sucks!

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            • #7
              I can honestly see the Govt choosing to take a wee little break from large ops for atleast 3 or 4, and then when they realize how much that saves them they'll send c250 overseas at any one time, I doubt the Govt. would lose much sleep by not meeting its UN manning commitment

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              • #8
                Haiti is only a couple of hundred troops under strength their are missions that are thousands (but it is in the news so....)!

                Cyprus looks like ending soon

                Not sure about UNDOF as I can't find their authorised strength

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                • #9
                  421 for UNDOF

                  I have heard as well that the UNSC are seeking to up the strength of this one
                  Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
                  Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
                  The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere***
                  The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
                  The best lack all conviction, while the worst
                  Are full of passionate intensity.

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                  • #10
                    I'm sure there will be a token mission in the interim. Of course the NBG continues, so at least the lads will get to leave the state occasionally.


                    Catch-22 says they have a right to do anything we can't stop them from doing.

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                    • #11
                      Very few GF

                      Overseas service either makes or breaks a young lad

                      I know one young lad who went overseas a klutz and came back one of the best Soldiers we have

                      (not me I did the reverse)

                      Its like training in Templemore and then never leaving Store street cop shop
                      Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
                      Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
                      The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere***
                      The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
                      The best lack all conviction, while the worst
                      Are full of passionate intensity.

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                      • #12
                        Wherever we end up, it'll have to be close. The way the countries financial stuation is, It'll need to be near a Ryanair route.


                        Catch-22 says they have a right to do anything we can't stop them from doing.

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                        • #13
                          Aer Lingus used to do Lebanon

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                          • #14
                            Charter.


                            Catch-22 says they have a right to do anything we can't stop them from doing.

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                            • #15
                              Ryan air did it once as well

                              Bulgarian Airlines did it a few times
                              Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
                              Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
                              The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere***
                              The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
                              The best lack all conviction, while the worst
                              Are full of passionate intensity.

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