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stuk onoplosbaar

English translation: issue

17:22 Nov 19, 2008
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Military / Defense / 20th century History
Dutch term or phrase: stuk onoplosbaar
Legerstelsel van 1922
met de Eerste Wereldoorlog voor Nederland het verdedigingsvraag stuk eigenlijk onoplosbaar was geworden. Op eigen kracht kon geen reële defensie-inspanning meer worden geleverd, ook als het slechts ging – en veel verder had de militaire doelstelling nooit gereikt – om het gedurende enige weken of maanden zelfstandig opvangen van “de eerste stoot”. Maar een alternatief in de vorm van een goed stelsel van collectieve veiligheid of het zich aansluiten, zoals na de Tweede Wereldoorlog zou gebeuren, bij een militaire alliantie ontbrak.
Robert Allwood
Local time: 07:22
English translation:issue
Explanation:
spelling error: (verdedigings)vraagstuk = issue or question
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Lianne van de Ven
United States
Local time: 02:22
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4 +7issue
Lianne van de Ven
4 +1issue of defense ... insoluble
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3 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +7
issue


Explanation:
spelling error: (verdedigings)vraagstuk = issue or question


Lianne van de Ven
United States
Local time: 02:22
Native speaker of: Native in DutchDutch
PRO pts in category: 12

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Cleartrans
1 min
  -> bedankt
agree  Max Nuijens
9 mins
agree  Ken Cox: LOL
11 mins
agree  Jack den Haan
15 mins
agree  Tina Vonhof (X): or problem.
1 hr
agree  Kitty Brussaard: Also with Tina :-)
3 hrs
agree  jarry (X)
15 hrs
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1 hr   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +1
verdedigingsvraagstuk ... onoplosbaar
issue of defense ... insoluble


Explanation:
Just to answer both parts of your question.

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United Kingdom
Local time: 07:22
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Kitty Brussaard: Or simply 'defense issue .... insoluble'
1 hr
  -> Thanks, Kitty. Your answer is another option, of course. :-)
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