Idea: TheNATO/EU should focus on creating a common Navy and naval strategy rather than an “EU Army”. Feel free to tell me why I am wrong

man_corona_mobil

This is something I´ve been thinking about quite a bit since Feb 24 happened and the whole national security/military environment in Europe started to shift.

Now with Finland and Sweden set to come in off the neutrality bench and the entire continent thinking about their security issues in a different way and looking to actually meet the 2% NATO benchmark among other things, talks of actually making a common European force a reality have risen back to the surface. But I think it is in many ways a solution in search of a problem. NATO ground forces in Europe are already quite tightly integrated and provide for the common defense, and some kind of EU-wide ground force that is intended for expeditionary purposes to respond to crises on the European periphery doesn’t really make sense on it’s own without real expeditionary capabilities to get them there.

What the EU as an institution, or “EU nations that are also in NATO” which is now becoming a rather solidly overlapping Venn diagram could really benefit from pooling their resources to make is a European Navy. I´m talking at least one carrier of a size and capacity on par with the best and biggest that the United States has, with all the associated escort vessels. THAT is a capacity that even the biggest and most experienced seafaring nations on the European side of the alliance have so far either balked at spending their own money on, or as in the case of France or the UK, can’t quite stretch to, fielding somewhat smaller and less capable ships.

A common European Navy, inside the structure of NATO or under the aegis of the EU makes sense to me in a way that a common European ground force does not. It gives the European side of the alliance badly needed power projection abilities in the Atlantic, the Mediterranean and possibly even globally, and it frees up American resources to focus on other things. It is a project that any one European nation either can’t do on it’s own or needs to stretch to do so, negatively impacting the other areas of their defense budget. But all together can easily afford it and there is plenty of shipbuilding capacity and technological know-how spread across the continent to do it and do it well.

One of the key principles of the post-WWII world order is that we all benefit from open oceans and freedom of travel and trade, but for 70+ years the burden of actually patrolling and enforcing that principle has fallen almost exclusively on the United States. It’s time Europe steps up. Even the landlocked nations benefit indirectly from secure sea lanes open to all.

Am I missing something here?

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