A blueprint for a European Defence Union – by Reinier van Lanschot
Europe's defence problem is not mass or money: it is the absence of a political center of gravity. Sep 25, 2026 European NATO fields two million personnel and spends almost 500 billion euros a year on defence, second only to the US, yet divided across 27 national efforts that add up to far less than the sum of their parts. The US has made a permanent strategic reorientation to the Indo-Pacific, with bipartisan consensus behind it, and is shifting the […]https://www.bachhausen.de/a-blueprint-for-a-european-defence-union-by-reinier-van-lanschot/
