{"id":194,"date":"2004-09-18T23:22:39","date_gmt":"2004-09-19T04:22:39","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=194"},"modified":"2004-09-18T23:24:00","modified_gmt":"2004-09-19T04:24:00","slug":"5-eu-countries-set-up-military-policing-force","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/?p=194","title":{"rendered":"5 EU Countries Set Up Military Policing Force"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Good news, y&#8217;all.  The Euros are now working together, putting together a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.voanews.com\/article.cfm?objectID=B15FC513-2DC2-45B5-B963E048270C5229&#038;title=5%20EU%20Countries%20Set%20Up%20Military%20Policing%20Force&#038;catOID=45C9C78C-88AD-11D4-A57200A0CC5EE46C&#038;categoryname=Europe\">fearsome military force<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Five European Union countries have agreed to set up a new defense body that can be deployed in European and other countries to help with crisis management.<\/p>\n<p>EU countries that have agreed to set up Eurogendfor all possess police forces with a military status. They include Italy, France, Spain, Portugal and the Netherlands.<\/p>\n<p>The new defense body will be based in Vicenza, in northern Italy. It will have an initial rapid reaction force of 800 men deployable within a maximum of 30 days. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Read the link.  800 troops, with enough checks on them to effectively prevent this group from ever doing anything more significant than manning crossroads and handing out rations.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, and they could probably defend Luxembourg from a Paraguayan invasion.  I would scoff more were Italy not involved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good news, y&#8217;all. The Euros are now working together, putting together a fearsome military force. Five European Union countries have agreed to set up a new defense body that can be deployed in European and other countries to help with crisis management. EU countries that have agreed to set up Eurogendfor all possess police forces [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-europe","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=194"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}