Building Defence Capacity in Europe - An Assessment

Building European Defence Capacity: An Assessment evaluates areas important for the re-building of defence capabilities in Europe, including the transatlantic defence ecosystem, defence spending, defence-industrial production, and considerations for building more resilient forces and supply chains.

List of contents

Introduction Chapter One: The Transatlantic Defence Ecosystem Capability Vignette: Uninhabited aerial vehicles (UAVs) European Enablers Air and Missile Defence Chapter Two: Funding European Defence Capability Vignette: Armoured Vehicles and Armoured Warfare Chapter Three: European Defence-industrial Capability: Revival, Growth and Sustainment Capability Vignette: Artillery The Electromagnetic Spectrum Chapter Four: Mass and Resilience Capability Vignette: Critical Maritime Infrastructure Chapter Five: Security of Supply Conclusion: A Load Road to Rebuilding European Defence

About the author

The International Institute for Strategic Studies is an independent centre for research, information and debate on the problems of conflict, however caused, that have, or potentially have, an important military content. The staff of the Institute is international in composition and IISS work is international in its perspective and reach. The Institute is independent and stresses rigorous fact-based research with a forward-looking policy orientation that can improve wider public understanding of international security problems and influence the development of sounder public policy, and more effective business decisions in the international arena.

Product details

• Authors: The International Institute for Strategic Studies
• Assisted by: The International Institute for Strategic Studies (Iiss) (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 12.02.2025
• EAN: 9781041075042
• ISBN: 978-1-0-4107504-2
• No. of pages: 116
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; POLITICAL SCIENCE / General, Asia, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Intergovernmental Organizations, HISTORY / Military / Strategy, Politics & government, Warfare & defence, Politics and government, Warfare and defence