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Europe Must Take a Page Out of the SDA’s Playbook and Embrace Flexibility and Iteration
Europe is scrambling to bolster its defenses. It doesn’t take a genius to see why. Geopolitical shifts are underway. There’s a war on the Eastern frontier. And the Americans say they’re overstretched: they want Europe to get out from under its security umbrella.

In response, defense spending is rising across the continent. The big European powers, like France, Germany and the United Kingdom, are raiding foreign aid budgets, loosening debt brakes, and shifting to a ‘wartime economy.' The problem here is that defense is not a simple question of spending enough money. There is a ‘how’ side to this which…[continued]