http://jp.dk/uknews/article1194987.ece

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Calling on the spirit of the musketeers

The foreign minister plans to urge Denmark's Nato allies to contribute equally to the alliance's mission in Afghanistan

Foreign Minister Per Stig Møller is expected to invoke Nato's 'all for one' spirit today when he meets with his colleagues from the defence alliance's other member states.

Møller will be attending the Foreign Ministers' Meeting in Brussels, where one of the main issues will be member states' contributions to the ISAF mission in Afghanistan.

Denmark and other alliance members that have been involved in the heaviest fighting are dissatisfied that certain Nato countries will not deploy their soldiers to the most dangerous areas, including Helmand province, where the largest portion of Danish troops are stationed.

'It's important that we all show solidarity and the will to bear our share of the burden,' Møller said.

Denmark plans to increase its number of soldiers in Afghanistan to 700 within the coming months, nearly double the number it had stationed in Iraq, and the same amount as some large European powers.

In terms of population, the nine Danish soldiers killed in Afghanistan since 2001 is one of the highest fatality rates of all Nato countries.


My personal concern with this is that all this comes at the same I've renewed my contract with the military. While I fully support the mission in Afghanistan and by no means am afraid of going, I worry that we (my comrades and I) will have to take on a burden we cannot lift by ourselves.
Yes, Danish soldiers are among the best in the world, no question. But in terms of actual firepower and numbers we are without a doubt one of the weakest nations in NATO.

Sure, we could easily afford a force 10 times the size that what we have now in Afghanistan. That's not the problem. The problem is that we simply cannot field a force of that size because we lack the manpower.



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