Serious planning, not tough-guy posturing

If someone compared the passion of the discussions about our foreign policy and what goes on in reality, they would discern a huge chasm between the two. One would expect that, given the current threats facing our country, we would resemble Israel a bit. I don't mean becoming Israel, but resembling it. 

What does this mean? It means the country having a "culture of security" that resides within the state apparatus, the political system, society even.

For many years, Greeks appear to have made a habit of taking everything apart. Partisanship and misguided unionism have corroded everything, even the intelligence service. We spent billions of euros on military procurements while mostly disregarding research and development in our defense industry. 

Every time Greece was obliged, under its commitments as a member of the NATO military alliance, to dispatch a frigate...