Core Groups: The way to real European defence

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Series Details Number 81
Publication Date February 2017
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European countries continue to have different political views on the use of military force. Their armed forces also show a wide variety in terms of capabilities for operations low to high in the spectrum.

Thus, European strategic autonomy in deploying armed forces for military operations requires a new approach. Rather than pursuing the impossible – acting at 28 – European countries should form core groups of partners with comparable intent, willingness and capabilities. France and the UK can provide the core for a European intervention force while Germany and Poland could constitute the core of a heavy land force formation. All core groups should support each other in a network, to be developed under the overarching umbrella’s of the EU and NATO.

Source Link https://www.egmontinstitute.be/core-groups-european-defence/
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  • https://www.egmontinstitute.be/content/uploads/2017/02/SPB81.pdf?type=pdf
  • https://www.clingendael.org/publication/core-groups-way-real-european-defence
  • http://aei.pitt.edu/86888/
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