European self-defense capabilities and the shifting strategic balance

The EU has struggled to try to create a unified military force, so far without great success. But the Russian invasion of Ukraine has spurred additional activity to get more serious about a common European defense command.3 (It’s always helpful to keep in mind that any EU initiative like this will produce a plethora of committees and agencies. It can easily induce dizziness in trying to follow them. But this is how the EU’s muddling-through process works. And it can produce surprisingly substantial results. (Sometime it doesn’t, which is less surprising!)

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