EU Defence Drive Lacks Plan or Mandate

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Photo by Levi Meir Clancy on Unsplash   It is almost 30 years since the last collaborative defence initiative collapsed, leaving Europe’s military clout weaker than ever, writes Giles Merritt. The Saint-Malo agreement’s promises of hard power proved a mirage, the European Defence Agency largely toothless, and the EU’s battlegroups more a paper army than…