The Case for EU Defense
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…
