More than half of the vehicles of the army is not deployed. As a result of years of cutbacks, many armored vehicles, storage tanks and other vehicles so outdated that they stand with great regularity.
This enables Mart de Kruif, until this week the chief executive of the army. ,, Barely half of the vehicle is properly used, the rest is not moving or has flaws. No wonder we drive around with trucks from the 90s. And our people are deemed thereby to exercise. ''
Marketplace
According to De Kruif confronted the army also with a "serious" lack of ammunition and automation is hopelessly behind. ,, Some connection systems run at us on Windows XP.That is 15 years old, it is not even supported. My people search Marketplace for parts just to solve problems themselves. ''
According to the outgoing General is the Dutch army a crucial choice: the army must be dramatically much smaller, or need large sums of money.
Champions League
,, So can not continue. After cutting back 20 years, the air from the system. We are supposed to play in the Champions League, but we have no stadium more, the medical staff and the groundsman are whittled down, the trainer and the bench is empty. We still have eleven players - and those are good - but need something to go wrong and we have a problem. ''
This week, NATO claimed that our country spends too much money on the military.According to Minister of Defence Hennis least 2 billion euros needed for the armed forces to regain the European average. They will soon negotiate with Minister of Finance Dijsselbloem additional space for the military in the budget for 2017.
http://www.ad.nl/ By: Peter Groenendijk Photo: Reuters
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