aced with complex and growing security challenges, Europe and its nations are not spending enough on defence. So said the European Leadership Network thinktank in a recent assessment that has now been followed by a well-reported warning by the US army chief of staff General Raymond Odierno. The general expresses great concern “about the GDP investment [on defence] in the UK,” cautioning that diminished British military resources may no longer be able to operate alongside the US. General Odierno’s words echo a 2011 speech by the departing US defence secretary Robert Gates, who warned that a new generation of US leaders could abandon 60 years of security guarantees to Europe unless allies stepped up.
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