Връщат казармата, набожните и неграмотните ще служат по-дълго
Младежите ще се обучават шест месеца в казармата. Неграмотните хора не могат да служат в модерната армия и затова се предвижда алтернативна служба, каза Каракачанов
07 Юли 2016, Четвъртък, 14:36 ч.
Наборната служба ще излезе много по-евтино от поддържането на професионална армия, каза съпредседателят на Патриотичния фронт Красимир Каракачанов
Патриотичният фронт внася законопроект за връщане на задължителната казарма, за да имат младите хора възможност да получат военна подготовка. Това се налага, защото има риск за сигурността и ситуацията се усложнява с всеки изминал ден, а в чл. 59 ал.1 от Конституцията е записано, че защитата на отечеството е дълг на всеки български гражданин, каза съпредседателят на Патриотичния фронт Красимир Каракачанов в "Здравей, България" по Нова телевизия.
„Няма смисъл да казвам какво се случва в Близкия изток, в Турция, какви са опасностите, свързани с радикалния ислям и за напрежението между великите сили. В същото време професионалната ни армия не е в готовност да защитава териториалната цялост и суверенитета на България. С връщането на наборната военна служба ще дадем възможност на младите хора да получат военно обучение“, подчерта депутатът.
Според него, най-малко четири месеца са необходими за обучението на един войник. „Предвиждаме 6 месеца служба за младежите и година алтернативна служба за тези, които имат някакви предубеждения, които не позволяват да носят оръжие или пък са неграмотни и няма как да бъдат използвани за модерната армия. Един наборен войник ще струва около 400 лева на държавата на месец, а един кадрови военнослужещ – около 1200 лева“, уточни Каракачанов.
„Никой не смята колко животи ще бъдат спасени, ако се наложи при някаква военна ситуация да бъдат мобилизирани българските граждани. Четири месеца са нужни за обучението на един войник, а ако няма толкова време, младежите ще бъдат изпратени на фронта като пушечно месо“, предупреди народният представител.
Предимство на казармата е, че социализира младежите и там се подготвят за тяхното конституционно задължение да защитават родината. Жените могат да служат доброволно, каза още Красимир Каракачанов.
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Why didn't Hitler invade Switzerland?
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Scott Young
Scott Young, Commissioning Specialist Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
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Originally Answered: Why didn't Germany invade Switzerland in World War 2?
Scott Young's answer to What would have happened if Germany invaded Switzerland after defeating France?
It would have been a long, bitter deadly fight. The Germans would eventually have won, just on the basis of having more troops but the cost would have been high in manpower and the cost of rebuilding.
No blitzkrieg - Switzerland has many narrow roads, choke points and in place defences that would have created deathtraps for tanks.
Mountain fighting - All of the Swiss army are mountain trained troops and trained for hit and run, asymmetrical warfare.
Every healthy man in Switzerland is a trained soldier and keeps a rifle at home (by law).
Prepared defences. Every bridge, tunnel and road is designed for destruction in event of an invasion - preferably with a Nazi tank sitting on it.
Air interdiction. The Luftwaffe would not have been as effective in the mountains as they were in the open fields of France & Easter Europe - too tight - short sight-lines.
Preparations - The Swiss disarmed, identified and marginalized their Nazi party members early which cut out the fifth-column-types and the Quislings.
Scott Young's answer to How did the Swiss remain neutral in World War I and II?
While political expediency certainly helped, i.e. German use of banks, etc. There is another couple of reasons.
1 Conquering Switzerland would have had few benefits and mountains are a bear to fight in, particularly on the attack
2 The Swiss military is considered quite good and was so at the time. They were prepared to destroy roads, bridges and tunnels, restrict travvel to places that the army could do far more damage than any gains the Germans could have made
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As Dan Dragan pointed out in his comment. Switzerland also has and had a significant internal arms industry and could produce very good equipment even when cut off from outside sources.
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Ernest W. Adams
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Originally Answered: Why didn't Germany invade Switzerland in World War 2?
It wasn't worth having for its own sake; it didn't lead to anywhere they couldn't get to by easier routes; and it would have been a big job. The Swiss mountains are honeycombed with bunkers and crammed with weapons. Switzerland was more useful in the role that it actually performed for them: as an ostensibly neutral (and therefore unassailable) place to hide their stolen loot. Part of the reason it took so long to repatriate art treasures and money stolen by the Nazis was that it was kept in Switzerland, whose banking secrecy was famous until quite recently.
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Mark Edward Harrison
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The entire point of the Swiss defence strategy was deterrence: to raise the cost to the invader to the point that on a cost versus benefit basis it wouldn't be worth triggering the invasion, code-named Operation Tannenbaum by the Germans.
The Swiss generally ascribe their survival to General Guisan's Redoubt Strategy, in which the army withdrew from the plains and cities to hundreds of deep bunkers and forts in the mountains, mined all key bridges and tunnels and generally planned to make an occupied Switzerland strategically inconvenient for Germany and Italy: The key tunnels linking the 2 Axis powers would have taken many months to rebuild after being blown; and they absolutely would have been blown, not taken intact. To re-affirm the Swiss commitment to resist, General Guisan gathered the entire officer corps at the Ruetli meadow, the birthplace of Swiss democracy in 1291--and Americans think they have the oldest democracy starting in 1776!--where every officer swore an oath to defend Schwyz. This let the Germans know that there would be no Norwegian Quislings or French-style rollovers here. (ps: The Swiss are just removing the explosives now.)
Andrew Warinner has written an excellent answer here, except that the Axis really DID need the Swiss passes and by that I mean with working tunnels, not blown-up ones. Regarding transshipment, the Swiss HAD to cooperate somewhat with the Germans to keep the cost-benefit ratio on the side of not being invaded. This lead to some very tragic circumstances, with trains of deportees traveling from Italy through Switzerland in the middle of the night, and on to Germany.
The Train | Switzerland | FRONTLINE | PBS "We found material in the U.S. National Archives on use of the Swiss rail system by the Germans. There were U.S. intelligence documents from the war which confirmed a massive amount of traffic through the Gotthard mountain passage between 1943 and 1944. German trains with coal and non-strategic supplies for Italy were passing through Switzerland at the rate of up to one every ten minutes. There have also been on-the-record accounts of hidden weapons and soldiers on the same route including a report by Jean Ziegler, a radical Swiss parliamentarian, who, as a young man claims to have witnessed a derailed freight train in 1944 with weapons and Nazi soldiers giving orders: an incident that, officially, never took place.
As for neutral Switzerland's government policy on railway passage through the country, this was based on the German-Italian-Swiss treaty of 1909, which established use of the Gotthard Tunnel. It remained the instrument by which traffic was regulated and justified until the end of the war. But soldiers and weapons were officially forbidden. The Nazis used the Brenner pass in Austria for the majority of military transports to the Italian front.
However, as U.S. archives confirm, the Brenner was bombed heavily in December of 1943 and effectively closed through the beginning of January. Additionally, weather records from that time report heavy early snowfalls that would have delayed or stopped train traffic in that time period."
In conclusion, the bridges and tunnels really are THE key factor in the entire equation and understanding their importance is key in answering the strategic question posed here.
Pease upvote if this answer was of interest to you.
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Chris Tune
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Originally Answered: What was Switzerland's position during World War II?
Switzerland was declared and did its best to remain strictly NEUTRAL during the war. There were pockets of spies who took up residence in Switzerland, since it's an advanced area, with plenty of facilities, and was right in the geographic area.
Hitler and the German military staff considered, and Hitler supported for a while an invasion of Switzerland. He appears to have not considered it important to invade, however, because ultimately the staff and he concluded an invasion would not occur. It also appears that Switzerland's political system (Canton system) and mandatory training in basic military training as well as the Swiss mandate that all adults house a military rifle and ammunition within their domicile, helped. This situation means that each Canton can call up it's own reserve militia in a reasonably quick fashion, and this cannot be over-ridden by "faint" type maneuvers or central government errors. The claim by the Swiss was that "every rock will have a sharpshooter behind it". I think that is reasonable, and true, and likely helped tremendously, together with ostensible neutrality to shield the Swiss.
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Majd Saoud
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Two main reasons:
It is, by all accounts, not a smart idea to attack Switzerland. Even if the eventual occupation of the country was achievable the cost would have been irreparably high. That is because the Swiss do no really have a standing army; the male population of the country is the army. Their constant training, as well as keeping their own weapons at home, makes the Swiss military the fastest and most mobile army on earth. It is said that during the first world war, the German monarch threatened to send half a million troops against a quarter million Swiss; the Swiss responded by: "We'll shoot twice and go home."
Switzerland was the Nazi leadership's private bank. Most of the treasures that they took from each country they invaded, they stored in Swiss banks. After all, if Hitler's thousand year empire did not last, they needed the getaway money.
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Andrew Warinner
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Hitler got distracted, first by the abortive invasion of Britain and by then the invasion of the USSR.
Hitler ordered OKH to plan the invasion of Switzerland in late June 1940 immediately after the surrender of France. Planning continued until October and foresaw an invasion by 11 German divisions, plus 15 Italian divisions from the south. German plans initially foresaw 21 German divisions being used.
At the same time, Hitler was planning and preparing the invasion of Britain (Operation Sea Lion) and attempting to win air supremacy over the Channel and Britain - the Battle of Britain. Unable to beat down the RAF, Hitler canceled Sea Lion on September 17.
So in September - October 1940, Hitler faced the question of how to employ the Wehrmacht. Given Hitler's long held ideas of "Lebensraum" in the east, he opted for war with the USSR and by December 1940 had plans for invasion in hand.
There was really only a narrow window of time when sufficient German troops (about 20 divisions worth) in western Europe were available for an invasion of Switzerland, say between September 1940 and April 1941. After April 1941, German attention was distracted by preparations for the invasion of the USSR and also invasions of Yugoslavia and Greece.
The window really was narrower: since Swiss plans were to abandon most of low-lying Switzerland and defend a "national redoubt" in the Alps, a winter invasion of Switzerland probably was not contemplated.
In any event, Switzerland was not such a glittering prize for Hitler.
Switzerland's German speaking population displayed little desire to be a part his pan-German ambitions.
The Swiss economy had few natural resources of its own and was dependent on Germany for raw materials after 1940.
Switzerland had no significant arms industries. Though the 20mm Oerlikon cannon was a Swiss product, the entire Swiss production of the weapon during WWII amounted to about 2 months worth of German manufacture of the weapon. Machine tools and electricity were more valuable additions to the German war economy but Swiss contributions were a tiny fraction of German consumption.
Germany did not need Switzerland's transportation links to Italy. German troops and war materials went over the Brenner pass, not over Swiss railroads. Switzerland adhered to its strict neutrality and did allow the shipment of non-war materials over its rails but did not allow transit of deportees, including Italian workers after 1943.
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Nadir Aziz
Nadir Aziz, Congenital Grammar-Nazi
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Originally Answered: Why wasn't Switzerland invaded in WWI and WWII?
Switzerland was able to remain neutral through a combination of military deterrence, economic concessions to Germany, and a lot of good fortune, as the following points (taken from various sources) show:
1. The country's terrain made it impossible to invade - it was an endless expanse of snowy mountainous, with little natural resources.
2. The Swiss saw little to gain by joining the war voluntarily, and thus tried their best to continue good relations with all the countries.
3. They defended their borders against escaping POWs from both sides.
4. The Swiss Army was well trained and motivated, well armed, with modern fortresses in the mountainous passes - where no tank can get through - and if invaded, they would have simply gone underground and resorted to guerrila warfare.
5. The major powers on both sides allowed Switzerland to remain neutral so they could use it as a safe banking haven and a as a mediator in case they wanted to negotiate.
6. It has been officially recognized as neutral - with no involvement in conflicts since 1815 - and thus no country can legally form plans to invade it or use it as a base of operations.
7. And last, but not least, it is a little known fact: Switzerland was also part of the 'Greater Reich' dreamt of by Hitler. But he simply gave up for strategic reasons - if he won the war, Switzerland will have no choice but to merge with the new Reich. So he didn't wish to waste precious resources on it.
Check out How did Switzerland stay neutral during two wars for a detailed analysis.
Какъв е смисъла да има обучени момчета като нямат разрешение да имат автомати във къщи както швейцарците.
Затова сключите договори със света ме ние само ще лекуваме военни. Направете Черноморието медицински военни лагери.
Никакви пистолети.
Пълен неутралитет.
Само медецина и прогрес.
Никакви войни, никакви страни.
Тъпак, военното трябва да е месец и това е. Другите 5 месеца трябва да са във Швейцария със швейцарската армия да се учат на компютри, технология и военни занаяти. Бъдете умни! Искайте от нашите западни партньори.
Защо не ги изпратиш момчетата на 6 месеца курс по програмиране или инжинерство?
Защо не ги изпратиш на 1 месец военно и на 5 месеца програмистика или медецина?
Да се научат на занаят поне.
Нали сме в НАТО, по добре е да извикаме Американци да ни пазят така дори и инвестиции ще привлечем. Какво стана през 1944, нали имахме най голямата армия, не можахме пак да преборим руските окупатори и ебаните комунистически селяни.