Instead, the war has reinforced Europe’s military dependence on the United States. Washington, they note, has led the response to the war, marshaled allies, organized military aid to Ukraine and
During the Yugoslav wars, there was an attempt to create an EU army of 50,000 troops by 2003 – but this never happened. Only in 2007 were two EU battlegroups finally established but never used. Some blame the U.S., saying that Washington didn’t want the EU to have its own army.
Europe’s other semi-serious military power, the UK, has a theological aversion to allying with the EU over anything. Meanwhile, Germany remains practically a bystander. If it spent 2 per cent of
Not even a war has succeeded in pushing Europe’s biggest powers to reach their defense spending targets. The Continent’s largest economies all fell short of a common goal of spending 2 percent of economic output on defense, according to a NATO report published Tuesday. And across the entire military alliance, only seven out of 30 members
Randy Ready/U.S. Army) WASHINGTON — The U.S. Army’s division-scale European exercise coming in 2020 will tell the service whether it has its European ready-to-go weapons stocks right when it
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