European Military Will Be "Bonsai"?

Western countries have asked the UN Security Council to discuss tougher sanctions for Syria, direct military intervention as occurred in Libya certainly not going to happen. British Foreign Secretary William Hague and the Secretary General of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Anders Fogh Rasmussen on Monday (1 / 8), confirmed there would be no military support for groups antirezim President Bashar al-Assad in Syria.

Both officials said the lack of international support and consensus of the world become a major barrier to such a military action in Libya. However, beyond that, the countries that had fought in Libya it was does not want to fight anymore.

"Even if we intend, the possibility (to obtain a UN mandate for military action) is almost nonexistent. Meanwhile, we did not intend (military action), "Hague said, as quoted by Agence France Presse.

The real reason is obvious, Europeans no longer have the money to finance large-scale military operations. Economic crisis that hit Europe and the U.S. makes the world's policeman was no longer thought to wage a new war in the rest of the world.

According Bellais Renaud, senior manager of economic studies at the European defense industry consortium, EADS, without U.S. support, the European countries has actually been unable to run operations in Libya today.Defense sector into sectors of government expenditure which was first circumcised in a variety of austerity measures throughout Europe.

According to JDW, a study by the European Parliament recently mentioned, various austerity measures in the European defense sector is currently too focused on short-term goals without a long term view and coordination with the increase in European defense capabilities.

Christian Mölling, researchers from the Institute of Security and International Relations Germany is in charge of the European Parliament to prepare the study, said the member countries of the European Union currently does not want to admit that their military capabilities are currently being turned into the armed forces "bonsai", small, and only unsightly from the outside only.