While European countries have highly-trained soldiers and cyber, naval and air power, resources are duplicated across 27 militaries and EU train-and-assist missions are modest in size.
.the headquarters and forces, which may be made available to the European Union in the context of the preparation and execution of the tasks referred to in Article 17(2) of the Treaty on European Union, including exercises, and of the military and civilian staff of the member states put at the disposal of the European Union to act in thisTwo: Unwillingness to deploy. The lack of a shared vision of how to use EU forces would be an enormous problem in a crisis. Member-states would be keen to protect their sovereignty, which means that a single government could block a deployment. Europeans have learned this the hard way, through the EU Battle Groups.
He has even called for a “real European army” to reduce Europe’s need for US-led NATO protection. The current aim is that the Strategic Compass gets agreed in March, while France holds the
While European countries have highly-trained soldiers and cyber, naval and air power, resources are duplicated across 27 militaries and EU train-and-assist missions are modest in size.
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