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Europe can defend itself

December 3, 2020

Op-Ed by Barry Posen in IISS's journal Survival (vol. 62, no. 6, December 2020).

 

Could Europe dispense with the services of the US military? And could it cope on its own with Russia’s querulous foreign policy and revived military? Barry Posen argues that Europe is better placed to defend itself militarily than many, including the IISS, have portrayed it to be. 

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