EPIS Thinktank

Author: Anton Hahn

  • Reconfiguring Europe’s Forward Presence:

    Reconfiguring Europe’s Forward Presence:

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    NATO’s Eastern Flank posture shifted from tripwire to forward defence, but a US withdrawal strains credibility. Facing Russian threats, Europe must build autonomous heavy-force deployment and logistics, using coalitions like JEF or MNC-Ukraine to offset reduced US support.

  • Europe’s Quest for the Long Reach

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    This article compares asymmetries in European and Russian long-range missile arsenals and concludes that Europe has significant capability gaps in three main areas: range, platform diversity and redundancy, and, lastly, insufficient means to deliver nuclear payloads. Although important steps have been taken to tackle some of these challenges at an incredible pace, it remains to…