Introduction and summary
The state of European defense is not strong.
The level of Europes defense spending and the size of its collective forces in uniform should make it a global power with one of the strongest militaries in the world. But Europe does not act as one on defense, even though it formed a political union almost 30 years ago. Europes military strength today is far weaker than the sum of its parts. This is not just a European failure; it is also fundamentally a failure of Americas post-Cold…
