http://www.atimes.com/article/natos-...ns-wont-fight/
Great article that shows how few Europeans (outside the Poles and Latvians) are actually ready to fight for their country - and offers this little tidbit
"If you don’t plan to fight, you don’t need weapons, and it is no surprise that Germany, with its budget surplus, can’t bring itself to vote for urgently-need funds for its military. Germany’s armed forces are in disrepair; a German brigade designated to lead a NATO rapid response force has only nine of the 44 tanks it requires and only four of the country’s military aircraft are combat ready."
and love this quote - "Today’s Europe is something of a Lockean dystopia: It is composed of individuals concerned mainly about their own hedonic enjoyments, who want the government to protect them from want and disease, but have no desire whatever to defend their nations, which are on a slow boat to extinction in any event."
really shows just how far they have gone from the heydays of the 1980's which was when the game was written
one interesting thing in the poll (and one that actually supports the original canon) is that France is very high in the poll of those actually willing to fight for their country - and thus very likely in a war where they came out relatively intact to have the fighting spirit needed to actually do what the French did in the first two editions of the game