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European Defense – A New Hope?

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Europe’s defense will resemble less a monolithic army of Mordor and more the free peoples of Middle-earth: Sovereign nations with differentiated strategies and weapons, tailored to their needs.

The 2020s began with a bang for Europe. Politicians were quick to call out that this was a “turning point” (Zeitenwende) in European history and geopolitics. After it had just gone through the deadliest pandemic since the Spanish Flu, suddenly there is “War in Europe.” Germany, which was unwilling to spend even just 2% of its GDP for its defense for more than three decades, suddenly wanted to invest 100 billion Euros into its own defense. What weapons will that money buy? If you look at the modern defense industry the answer is American ones. Among the ten largest defense companies in the…

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