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Future Military Coalitions: The Transatlantic Challenge

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Transatlantic Coalition Building

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Defense & Civil Aerospace Trade

Future Military Coalitions: The Transatlantic Challenge; Implications of a Common European Security & Defense Policy (CESDP) on Future Transatlantic Military Capabilities

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This project builds on an another quadripartite (France, Germany, the U.K. the U.S.) study of coalition military operations. It convened a political/military working group of experts and officials from the United States and Europe to explore through examination of potential future crisis scenarios how CESDP could affect the force composition, military capabilities, system developments, conduct and potential success of transatlantic versus Europe-only operations.
An important aspect of the project is the identification of equipment capability gaps, and the examination of the multinational and national processes and apparatus for rectifying these.
Taking the NATO Defense Capabilities Initiative (DCI) and the EU's inventory of capabilities as starting points, the project helps establish a focused set of equipment capability priorities for the next fifteen years.




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