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CIAO DATE: 10/04
European Defense Reform Print Mail: The Beginning of the Beginning
Radek Sikorski
September 2004
The American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research
Abstract
Europe has been slow to respond to the menace of terrorism, but there are signs that its perception of threats is converging with that of the United States. Paradoxically, America's costly war in Iraq is convincing Europeans that they need a more capable military to give them greater influence over how the West uses force beyond its perimeter.