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Article: The widening military capabilities gap between the United States and Europe: does it matter?
- Article from:
- Parameters
- Article date:
- September 22, 2006
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Military and political experts on both sides of the Atlantic assert that the widening military capabilities gap between the United States and Europe creates a more challenging environment for transatlantic cooperation. From the American perspective, arguments tend to suggest that the growing gap limits interoperability, dictates contradictory strategies between the United States and Europe, generates domestic burden-sharing accusations, and ultimately obliges the United States to pursue a more unilateralist foreign and security policy.
On the other hand, from the European perspective, the capabilities gap may indeed seem to be somewhat irrelevant given today's ...