http://mcmilitary.org/ 2010-07-23T22:53:17+02:00 http://mcmilitary.org/ http://mcmilitary.org/lib/images/favicon.ico text/html 2010-07-22T16:39:44+02:00 War Resisters' International http://mcmilitary.org/en/afghanistan_deployment?rev=1279809584&do=diff US President Obama announced to send 30000 extra US troops to Afghanistan and asks his NATO allies to do the same. Several countries did announce to send soldiers before or at the Afghanistan Conference in London on 28th January 2010. This overview of the European involvement in this war and the military infrastructure involved was made as part of the Europe for Peace-Grundtvig project, with involvement of the No Bases-network and the No to NATO-coalition. We also mapped the political debate… text/html 2010-07-22T16:21:53+02:00 War Resisters' International http://mcmilitary.org/en/military_bases?rev=1279808513&do=diff Military Bases An interesting overview of military bases can be found in the Google Earth map of foreign military bases worldwide made by the Transnational Institute. Belgium Belgium hosts the political and military headquarters of NATO. The political headquarters are located in Brussels. SHAPE, the military headquarter is located in Mons. Near Mons it is served in logistical terms by the airforce base of Chièvres, which is run by US forces. Another support structure is the NATO Satcom in… text/html 2010-07-22T16:18:27+02:00 War Resisters' International http://mcmilitary.org/en/brize_norton?rev=1279808307&do=diff RAF Brize Norton is the largest Station in the Royal Air Force, employing some 3900 Service personnel and over 600 civilians. We are an extremely busy station and are constantly in the public eye, as the main airport used for deploying UK troops worldwide. (RAF Brize Norton website) text/html 2010-06-27T15:09:19+02:00 War Resisters' International http://mcmilitary.org/en/grundtvig_photo_archive?rev=1277644159&do=diff This is the photo archive of the Grundtvig programme ”Europe for Peace“ Partnership meeting Berlin, 16 October 2009 Group photo from the partnership meeting, together with some of the German learners/volunteers Preparation meeting