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Thank you. army. mill slash harding. European security is not just driven by the traditional states that you would have expected from a sort of 90s view of European security.

It's the smaller states that you need to

look at to get that real sense of emergency. You get political unity, you get policy unity,

but actually one of the bits where you have most fragmentation is defence industry,

defence industrial production within Europe.

It's not just the traditional heavy metal, sort of tanks, frigates, etc.

A lot of this is also about software.

Keeping troops at high readiness is also very, very expensive, which again, European nations are finding out.

Hey, welcome back to the MWI podcast. I brought to you with the generous support of the West Point class of 1974.

I'm John Amble, and on this episode, we're examining the European defense and security landscape.

Russia's invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 galvanized both NATO and the European Union.

But how has political and strategic unity translated to improvements of collective defense

and deterrence?

Which European states are leading the way?

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