The Russian invasion of Ukraine has challenged most of the premises underpinning the European security order. Among these is the idea that high-intensity conventional wars are rare and mostly short affairs. After more than one year marked by the devastations ravaging Ukraine, this assumption is clearly no longer valid. At the same time, the European productive capacity cannot keep pace with the return of a large-scale war on the Old Continent. The ability to produce enough advanced weapon systems is highly limited by technical, political and administrative factors. …read more
Source:: Istituto Affari Internazionali