Who Will
Defend Europe?: An Awakened Russia and a Sleeping Continent Hardcover – 15 Dec.
2024
English
edition by Keir Giles (auteur)
Who will
defend Europe? The answer should be obvious: Europe should be able to defend
itself. Yet, for decades, most of the continent enjoyed a defence holiday,
outsourcing protection to the United States while banking an increasingly
illusory 'peace dividend'. Now, after three decades of reducing armed forces
and drawing down defence industries, Europe finds itself close to
unprotected--while Russia is intent on continuing its war of expansion, and the
US is distracted and divided.
In this
urgent, vital book, Keir Giles lays out the stark choices facing leaders and
societies as they confront the return of war in Europe. He explains how the
West's unwillingness to confront Russia has nurtured the threat, and that
Putin's ambition puts the whole continent at risk. He assesses the role and
deficiencies of NATO as a guarantor of hard security, and whether the EU or
coalitions of the willing can fill the gap. Above all, Giles emphasises the
need for new leadership in defence of the free world after the US has stepped
aside-- and warns that the UK's brief moment of setting the pace for Europe has
already been squandered.
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