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  • Britain and France should not give up on EU defence co-operation
    Policy brief by Clara Marina O'Donnell, 24 October 2011
    Britain and France should not give up on EU defence co-operation
  • Governments need incentives to pool and share militaries
    Insight by Tomas Valasek, 01 November 2011
    Defence austerity
  • Trio leadership: The need to liberalise the European defence market
    Report by Clara Marina O'Donnell, 03 June 2011
    Trio leadership
  • Governments need incentives to pool and share militaries
    Insight by Tomas Valasek, 01 November 2011

    Military collaboration among EU countries makes economic sense, but governments will need additional incentives to overcome reservations about initial costs and erosion of national sovereignty.
  • Britain and France should not give up on EU defence co-operation
    Policy brief by Clara Marina O'Donnell, 24 October 2011

    Although EU defence efforts have delivered less than had been hoped, they have led to some welcome improvements in European military capabilities.
  • Race to the bottom
    Insight by Tomas Valasek, 24 August 2011

    For decades, European countries cut defence budgets with little worry. The United States kept enough troops on the continent to deter all potential enemies, almost irrespective of how small European militaries became.

  • Trio leadership: The need to liberalise the European defence market
    TGAE report, Report by Clara Marina O'Donnell, 03 June 2011

    Over the last year, renewed defence spending cuts in many EU member-states have increased the need for closer EU defence co-operation. European governments have long acknowledged that significant savings could be gained through more common procurement in defence, joint logistics and common ownership of the most expensive military capabilities.
  • EU ministers tackle defence austerity
    Insight by Tomas Valasek, 01 June 2011

    How do you do more with less? The EU defence ministers agreed last week that the way to limit the impact of the economic crisis on their defence budgets lies in more co-operation.

  • We have reached a share it or lose it moment
    Opinion piece by Tomas Valasek
    Defence Management Journal, 26 April 2011

    Despite all the cuts to defence budgets, Europe's militaries are not doing enough pooling and sharing of equipment and personnel; that is the opinion of Thomas Valasek, author of "Surviving Austerity - The Case for a New Approach to EU Military Collaboration".
  • Surviving austerity: The case for a new approach to EU military collaboration
    Report by Tomas Valasek, 22 April 2011

    A wave of budgetary austerity is weakening Europe’s defences. The armed forces of Europe will lose important skills and capabilities unless they can find ways of saving money through collaboration. Tomas Valasek examines previous efforts at pooling and sharing, and explains why some succeeded better than others.
  • What cuts in US defence budget will mean for the transatlantic alliance
    Insight by Tomas Valasek, 15 March 2011

    The US defence budget seems set to fall as Washington begins to restore order in its finances. Spending on the military has reached such heights – $700 billion, or 20 per cent of the US federal budget – that it has become too large for deficit-cutters to ignore.