Loose Lips & Sinking Ships: EU Papers Leaked Over Med Sea Military Action
SputnikNews.com
26.05.2015
In an embarrassing blow to EU military defense chiefs, the whistleblower site Wikileaks has released two papers compiled by the EU’s military committee revealing its plan for naval intervention on the Mediterranean Sea and the risk to its reputation if it goes wrong.
The paper notes that the EU reputation is under risk if “loss of life is attributed, correctly or incorrectly, to action or inaction by the EU force”.
The leaked documents also reveal plans to conduct military operations to destroy boats used for transporting migrants in Libyan territories to prevent them from reaching Europe.
The paper highlights that the EU member states’ military committee needs to “[draw] on the full range of surveillance, intelligence and information capabilities available to Member States and Partners, and supported by Brussels (inter alia EEAS [European External Action Service] Single Intelligence Analysis Capacity – SIAC)”.
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