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The Strategic Studies Institute recently published A Hard Look at Hard Power: Assessing the Defense Capabilities of Key U.S. Allies and Security Partners. Edited by Gary J. Schmitt, codirector of the Marilyn Ware Center for Security Studies at AEI, and featuring contributions from him, AEI scholar Michael Mazza, and others, it fills critical gaps in information “about the actual hard power resources of America’s allies.”
Though the economic recession forced many NATO countries to cut their military resources, the NATO Response Force (NRF) program is encouraging further integration of NATO’s forces. Guillaume Lasconjarias explains why a successful NRF program will be critical to successful operability as the alliance withdraws from Afghanistan.
Download A Hard Look at Hard Power: Assessing the Defense Capabilities of Key U.S. Allies and Security Partners here.
This post was written by Ash Malhotra, an AEIdeas intern, and edited by Sarah Gustafson, Editorial Assistant at the AEIdeas blog.
NATO needs to develop its Response Force to offset the cuts in ground troops and military resources each member country has made.
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