'Smart Defense': Should Europe's Militaries Specialize? -- Joshua Foust, The AtlanticThe NATO defense collective wants to do less with more by having member states develop military specialties, like workers on an assembly line.
An inescapable fact of modern defense planning is budget austerity. Smaller budgets are prompting some tough thinking across Europe and in the U.S. about how these countries can maintain their global security posture with less money. Under normal circumstances, less money would mean less equipment, fewer people, fewer activities, and fewer operations.
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My Comment: If a consensus and commitment from each NATO member on what they will contribute to a European force can be obtained .... this then makes sense. But having European governments working together .... that is not as easy as it sounds.