The authors - General John Shalikashvili, the former chairman of the US joint chiefs of staff and Nato's ex-supreme commander in Europe, General Klaus Naumann, Germany's former top soldier and ex-chairman of Nato's military committee, General Henk van den Breemen, a former Dutch chief of staff, Admiral Jacques Lanxade, a former French chief of staff, and Lord Inge, field marshal and ex-chief of the general staff and the defence staff in the UK - paint an alarming picture.........

The key threats are:

· Political fanaticism and religious fundamentalism.            

What about military fundamentalism?

Will there be an European politician to tell the military it's not their business to set out policies?

The struggle of man against tyranny is the struggle of memory against forgetting.(Kundera)