How does the eus military strength compare to the usas?
The EU has nothing like the military strength of the USA:- 1. The EU’s economic power is massively inferior to the USA, so they cannot afford as much military materiel. 2. The technology of EU equipment such as the Eurofighter is a generation behind that of the Americans e.g. in relation to “stealth” 3. With its many separate countries, the political structure of the EU does not enable European forces to combine effectively outside NATO, in which the USA is dominant. In other words, the EU lacks effective command and control. 4. Language differences are a major issue for the effective organisation of military forces at the European level. 5. European forces are in practice dependent on US facilities, for instance for satellite navigation, and could not operate independently. 6. US intelligence, for all its limitations, would walk all over the EU if European countries tried to operate separately militarily.
