The declaration also outlines specific areas of U.K.-French military cooperation such as shared use of military transport assets and developing further our close cooperation on defense requirements,

Unless there is a recommendation that comes forward from our military commanders that they require more troops, we don't provide them,

military planning is well under way in NATO, with the full support of EU member states, in case diplomacy alone proves inadequate.

All the documents possessed by the different (Iranian) organs show the intervention and cooperation of British military commanders in southern Iraq to create insecurity in Iran.

As a military commander we are behind the threat in that country,

Let me speak as a veteran of the Marine Corps who has been supportive of the military action taken in Iraq. The idea has been to deliver the people from a [repressive] regime ... I think there are some who would question if we leave in place a structure that is less than sufficient in guaranteeing the freedom of the Iraqi people. There are those who view that as less than successful.