"The EU's Common Security and Defense Policy requires the creation of a common European Defense Industrial Base." Provide an argument for and an argument against that statement. Then discuss whether or not you agree with the statement and why. YES - ANS - The Five Groups of EU Countries are...
"The EU's Common Security and Defense Policy requires the creation of a common European
Defense Industrial Base." Provide an argument for and an argument against that statement.
Then discuss whether or not you agree with the statement and why. YES - ANS - The Five
Groups of EU Countries are still divided. This makes cooperation of all 28 member countries
more difficult. While some of the five groups are in NATO, some are not and doing EU missions
with a common industrial base would make it more efficient and create more economies of scale
for all of EU.
- "Capabilities Gap"
- increase economies of scale
- interoperability
- absolute advantage
- interoperability,deployability,sustainability, survivability, operational ability. This hinders them
from being able to deal with conventional conflict.
"The EU's Common Security and Defense Policy requires the creation of a common European
Defense Industrial Base." Provide an argument for and an argument against that statement.
Then discuss whether or not you agree with the statement and why. NO - ANS -
Partnership for Peace, where NATO works with non-NATO European member states and shows
them how to work with NATO. There is no need for a common European Defense Industrial
Base is CSDP has the military capability of interoperability, like PfP or the other multilateral
military forces like the British Dutch Amphibious Force, Eurocorps, and Admiral Benelux.
- Civilian capabilities within the EU have more tools for dealing with confrontation that no other
government or organization possesses and the EU has unique capabilities for dealing with
non-conventional conflict and wars of conscience.
- NATO. 22 member states are part of NATO then they have some participation on defense
decisions that might affect the EU as well.
- EU and NATO are complementary to each other since they bring different things to the table.
- different capabilities, national interests, shared values and goals.
Five Groups? - ANS The Nuclear Powers: France/UK has an expeditionary Strategic
Doctrine with forces and bases around the world and they spend 1.8% of their GDP on Defense
which is more than half of all spending on European acquisition programs. → May represent an
obstacle for the creation of European Defense Industrial Base.
Large NATO Countries: Germany/Italy/Spain/Poland: heavily oriented towards spending on
territorial defense.
, Small countries (rest of the ones not mentioned): emphasize on using military forces through
NATO, the EU and other multialteral organizations (which could also represent challenges for
burden sharing) but focus on niche capabilities so can provide things that are useful to the
alliance.
Neutral countries: Austria/Ireland/Finland/Sweden/Malta, focus on peacekeeping.
Greece and Cyprus: Greece is in NATO but Cyprus is neutral, focus on territorial defense.
General Hogg outlined several challenges currently facing NATO. Explain those challenges and
what NATO must do to meet these challenges. - ANS Middle East→ ISIS is one of the
biggest threats for NATO in the Middle East, and they have up the threat level for ISIS. The
reason why ISIS is gaining followers is because they are not good at integrating minorities into
society, and they become radicalize because they are easy targets since they are marginalized
in European society.
Russia and Ukraine→ The U.S. seems unwilling to get involved w Russia and the acquisition of
Crimea. The issue with Russia is that we turned a blind eye to certain issues, such as Georgia
conflict, and our foreign policy is "schizophrenic" when it comes to crisis management.There
needs to be a Readiness Action Plan in order to deal with the possible negative outcomes and
Russia growing freedy.
- Members need to deal with Article 3→ take care of your own first and make sure everything is
good at home.
→ NATO is under attack by Russia because Russia is testing NATO and the central and eastern
european countries are a little bit scared of what Russia will do next.
→ U.S. Wants to keep the alliance together and there is a need for defence capability building.
There is agreed intelligence that is shared among the member states but won't be shared with
the EU.
→but want to do comprehensive appraoch with EU to deal with certain issues because the EU
has some political/diplomatic strengths and can help through those means.
→ NATO has to be more aware of the countries that they are adding to Alliance and not add
people for the hell of it.
→ NATO is trying to avoid a cold war with Russia and is not trying to do a regime change, but
NATO is making Putin paranoid and they are not sure what he will do next.
→ Sanctions seems to be effective. Other threats
→ Cyber attacks→ deciding how to classify a cyber attack
→ hybrid threat/warfare
→ Russia financing NGOs to destabilize countries
Pandemics
What is the European Union's Security Strategy? How did it evolve and how is it
implemented?Does the EU possess the military and civilian capabilities required to make its
Security Strategy effective? If not, what can it do to acquire those capabilities? - ANS -
Started with the force structure and then developed a strategic concept. Evolved by the EU
figuring out the existing military capabilities such as the Petersberg tasks or what capabilities
they lacked because the EU possesses a capabilities gap. The Petersberg tasks require
interoperability, deployability, sustainability, survivability, and operational ability.
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