{"id":11660,"date":"2019-02-15T15:47:15","date_gmt":"2019-02-15T23:47:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/?p=11660"},"modified":"2019-02-15T15:47:25","modified_gmt":"2019-02-15T23:47:25","slug":"strategika-issue-56-the-defense-of-europe-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/strategika-issue-56-the-defense-of-europe-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Strategika Issue 56: The Defense of Europe"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>European Defense<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Please read a new essay by my colleague, Angelo M. Codevilla\u00a0in Strategika.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Europe was never a full partner in its own defense. The very question\u2014Will Europe ever fully partner with the U.S., or will the European Union and NATO continue to downplay the necessity of military readiness?\u2014is no longer meaningful as posed, because the political energies of Europe\u2019s elites are absorbed as they try to fend off attacks on their legitimacy by broad sectors of their population.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hoover.org\/research\/european-defense\">Read the full article here.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>NATO Renewed (Coming Soon To A Theater Of War Near You)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Please read a new essay by my colleague, Ralph Peters in Strategika.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Clio, the muse of history, has a fabulous sense of irony: As the human pageant unfolds, she delights in confounding our intentions and expectations. Thus, two public enemies of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (whose acronym, NATO, sounds like another Greek deity) promise to be the unwitting saviors of the alliance, rescuing it from complacency, lethargy, and diminishing relevance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hoover.org\/research\/nato-renewed-coming-soon-theater-war-near-you\">Read the full article here.<\/a><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Urging More From Our NATO Allies<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Please read a new essay by my colleague, Robert G. Kaufman in Strategika.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The United States should never expect to achieve full burden-sharing with the European members of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). Even in the most balanced alliances, the most powerful member will pay some premium for ensuring its credibility and effectiveness. The United States can strive plausibly to minimize but not eliminate the massive degree of free riding and strategic incoherence that has become politically untenable and strategically unwise. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hoover.org\/research\/urging-more-our-nato-allies\">Read the full article here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>European Defense Please read a new essay by my colleague, Angelo M. Codevilla\u00a0in Strategika. Europe was never a full partner in its own defense. The very question\u2014Will Europe ever fully partner with the U.S., or will the European Union and NATO continue to downplay the necessity of military readiness?\u2014is no longer meaningful as posed, because [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1217,958,1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p466Sb-324","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":11616,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/strategika-issue-56-the-defense-of-europe\/","url_meta":{"origin":11660,"position":0},"title":"Strategika Issue 56: The Defense of Europe","author":"victorhanson","date":"January 17, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"European Defense Please read a new essay by my colleague, Angelo M. 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