NATO proposes its own "Rapid Reaction Corps". (Insider Report).

The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), a regional affiliate of the United Nations, "would like to be able to put more than 100,000 men into a campaign, and envisages a total force in excess of 250,000, capable of combat in three conflicts in any part of the world for up to two years," reported the February 21st London Independent. The proposed "Allied Rapid Reaction Corps" (ARRC) would be led by Britain, with separate corps headed by the Italians, Spanish, Germans, Dutch, and Turks, as well as the Franco-German Eurocorps. These elements "are expected to be amalgamated into two [units], to supplement the ARRC," reports the British paper.

Although the NATO alliance was sold to the public as a European "collective security" arrangement intended to keep the Soviet army at bay, its first military venture was the 1999 aggressive war on Yugoslavia. But NATO's ruling council insists that the alliance will "present a united force for use in global conflict," beginning with an envisioned military strike against Iraq later this year.

It should be remembered that in March 1949, U.S. Secretary of State Dean Acheson (CFR) explained that NATO "is designed to fit precisely into the framework of the United Nations and to assure practical measures for maintaining peace and security in harmony with the Charter.... The United States government and the governments with which we are associated in this treaty are convinced that it is an essential measure for strengthening the United Nations...."