Editor's Foreword

fOREIgN fORCEs
Canada NATO 287
France Army: 1 (FRA/GER) army bde (1 army HQ, 1 armd
cav rgt, 1 mech inf regt); 2,800 (incl elm Eurocorps and
FRA/GER bde (2,500))
Netherlands Air Force: 300
United Kingdom Army 22,000; 1 army corps HQ
(multinational); 1 armd div Royal Navy 30; Air Force 320
United States US Africa Command: Army; 1 HQ located
at Stuttgart USAF; 1 HQ (17th Air Force) located at
Ramstein AB. US European Command: 1 combined
service HQ (EUCOM) located at Stuttgart-Vaihingen
Army 38,537; 1 HQ (US Army Europe (USAREUR) located
at Heidelberg; 1 mech inf SBCT; 1 armd inf bde; 1 (hvy)
cbt avn bde (1 armd inf bde deployed to Iraq); 1 (APS)
armd HBCT eqpt. set (transforming); some M-1 Abrams;
some M-2/M-3 Bradley; some Stryker; some M-109; some
MLRS; some AH-64 Apache; some CH-47 Chinook; some
UH-60 Black Hawk Navy 249 USAF 14,856; 1 HQ (US
Airforce Europe (USAFE)) located at Ramstein AB; 1 HQ
(3 rd Air Force) located at Ramstein AB; 1 ftr wg located
at Spangdahlem AB with (1 atk/FAC sqn with 12 A-10
Thunderbolt II; 6 OA-10 Thunderbolt II, 2 ftr sqn each with
21 F-16C Fighting Falcon); 1 airlift wg located at Ramstein
AB with 16 C-130E Hercules; 2 C-20 Gulfstream; 9 C-21
Learjet; 1 CT-43 Boeing 737; USMC 318
greece GRC
Euro € 2008 2009 2010
GDP € 242bn 261bn
US$ 356bn 390bn
per capita US$ 33,189 36,280
Growth % 2.9 -0.8
inflation % 4.2 1.3
Def exp a € 6.89bn
US$ 10.1bn
Def bdgt € 4.16bn 4.32bn
US$ 6.11bn 6.45bn
US$1=€ 0.68 0.67
a including military pensions and procurement
Population 10,737,428
age 0–14 15–19 20–24 25–29 30–64 65 plus
Male 7% 3% 3% 4% 24% 8%
Female 7% 3% 3% 4% 24% 10%
capabilities
ACTIVE 156,600 (army 93,500 navy 20,000 air
31,500 Joint 11,600) Paramilitary 4,000
Terms of service: Conscripts in all services up to 12 months
REsERVE 237,500 (army 198,000 navy 8,000 air
31,500)
ORgANIsATIONs By sERVICE
naTO Europe
137
Army 93,500; ε35,530 conscript
fORCEs By ROLE
Field army to re-org. Units are manned at 3 different levels
– Cat A 85% fully ready, Cat B 60% ready in 24 hours, Cat
C 20% ready in 48 hours (requiring reserve mobilisation).
There are 3 military regions
Comd 1 HQ; 4 corps HQ (incl NDC-GR)
Armd 1 div HQ; 4 bde (each: 1 mech inf bn,
1 SP arty bn, 2 armd bn)
Recce 5 bn
Mech Inf 3 div HQ; 7 bde (each: 1 armd bn, 1 SP arty bn,
2 mech bn)
Inf 1 div HQ ; 5 bde (each: 1 armd bn, 1 arty regt,
3 inf regt)
SF 1 comd (1 (cdo) amph bde; 1 cdo para bde)
Marine 1 bde
Fd Arty 1 bde (8 regt (incl 2 bn MLRS))
Air Mob 1 bde
AD 3 bn (2 I-HAWK, 1 TOR M1)
Avn 1 bde ( 1 avn regt (2 atk hel bn), 1 spt hel bn,
3 avn bn)
Log 2 div (4 bde)
EQUIPMENT By TyPE
MBT 1,688: 170 Leopard 2A6HEL; 180 Leopard 2 A4; 511
Leopard 1; 324 M-60A1 / M-60A3; 503 M-48A5
RECCE 242 VBL
AIFV 377 BMP-1
APC (T) 2,105: 432 Leonidas Mk1/Leonidas Mk2; 1,673
M-113A1/M-113A2
ARTY 3,163
SP 348: 155mm 221: 197 M-109A1B/M-109A2/M-
109A3GEA1/M-109A5; 24 PzH 2000; 203mm 127
M-110A2
TOWED 412: 105mm 283: 265 M-101; 18 M-56; 155mm
129 M-114
MRL 151: 122mm 115 RM-70 Dana; 227mm 36 MLRS
(incl ATACMS)
MOR 2,252: 81mm 1,632; 107mm 620 M-30 (incl 231 SP)
AT
MSL 1,108
SP 362: 320 M-901; 42 Milan HMMWV
MANPATS 746: 196 9P163 Kornet-E; 262 9K111 AT-4
Spigot; 248 Milan; 40 TOW
RCL 4,090:
SP 106mm 746 M-40A1
MANPAT 3,344: 84mm 2,000 Carl Gustav; 90mm 1,344
EM-67
AIRCRAFT
TPT 3: 1 C-12C Huron; 2 C-12R/AP Huron
UTL 38 U-17A
HELICOPTERS
ATK 32: 20 AH-64A Apache; 12 AH-64D Apache
SPT 15 CH-47D Chinook
UTL 114: 14 AB-206 (Bell 206) JetRanger; 100 UH-1H
Iroquois
UAV 12-18 Sperwer
Europe (naTO)