Future of Europe and US national security. Study project

Technical Report · Wed Feb 17 04:00:00 EST 1988

OSTI ID:7082565

McCloskey, C C

The world region that will most affect the national security of the United States in the next twenty-five years is Europe. Europe is the key region because of history and heritage, economics, geographic location, the military threat, technology growth, and increasing European unity. All these factors tie U.S. national interests to Europe, moreso than any other region. The vision of Europe twenty-five years hence is of an economically vibrant region, comfortable dealing with both East and West in trade and all other aspects of international relations, military less dependent on the United States, acting more as a unified region than separate countries and an emerging superpower in its own right. To safeguard its national security, the United States must respond to this future Europe in several ways. It must revise its European military strategy to include the phased withdrawal of all major ground forces, enhance American economic competitiveness while simultaneously stimulating East-West trade, adequately resource the national diplomatic effort and establish and sustain a consensus of support for this new strategy among the American people and their representatives.

• Research Organization: Army War Coll., Carlisle Barracks, PA (USA)
• OSTI ID: 7082565
• Report Number(s): AD-A-190719/5/XAB
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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