Sunday, February 13, 2011

Composition (No. 2 - after correction)

The Czech Republic joined NATO in 1999. The joining documents were signed on 12th April 1999 in the USA. Some politicians and other skeptics argue that the Czech Republic does not command the same authority as more established members of NATO. Is it possible to be annoyed with this opinion?
Firstly, what type of information can we use as arguments to support our opinion? Soldiers, members of the army, have the same information as civilians. For example, from news, magazines, newspapers, TV or Internet. However, they have particulary some information so called internal, from the army sphere. But the level of this information is strictly depend on the position of the soldier in the army and only some of soldiers have some specific information. I am from the biggest group of the most solders who have only the first type of the information, so called „public information“. And it depends only on me if I try to collect information and study them to know details about our position in NATO. So my opinion and my supportive argument will be only from the public sources of information.
To the best of my knowlidge, the Czech Republic has the expected authority in NATO. We have some specialists in the Czech Army – chemical specialists, medical specialists, pilots. They are (or were) in the relevant types of operations, for example in the Iraq, Kuwait and Afghanistan. And the same is about czech commandants, they are (or were) on the relevant positions in the command structure of those operations. We have members of the Czech Army in the relevant command structures of the permanent command chain of NATO. They have relevant level of information I think. The liaison between the Czech republic and NATO is on relevant level. Regarless to say that the latest sentence I wrote is based on my knowledge about VTC conferences between Vyskov and Norfolk but this type of information is published on the web. Generaly speaking I think we have the relevant position in the NATO structure and we have relevant representatives in the relevant locations.
Taking everithing into account, the Czech republic has the relevant authority thoughout the members of the Czech army on their positions in the command structure of NATO. Needless to say that media very often describe only conrete incorrect situation connected with Czech members in NATO due to media likes to describe only situations which seems to be wrong generaly. This reality leads to have different opinion about this problem as was written in the third sentence of first paragraph.

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