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> Europe would be getting steamrolled if not for the DOD and NATO and it wouldn’t end there. How? Can you please elaborate a bit?
by dmichulke 4y ago
> Europe would be getting steamrolled if not for the DOD and NATO and it wouldn’t end there.
How? Can you please elaborate a bit?
- 7thaccount 4y agoAmerica spends more on defense than probably most of Europe. Look at the amount of aircraft carriers, aircraft, tanks, helicopters, ICMBs, submarines, and soldiers we have. It's a lot and I have a feeling Europe leans on America heavily and as a result under funds their own military greatly. As members of NATO, they may figure that they don't have to worry about a blitzkrieg from Putin. A lot of the power projected by America is from massive DOD spending in developing new technology like our carriers, tanks, missiles, cyber warfare/security, subs, various planes (JSF, F-22, stealth bomber, SR-71...etc). However, this assumes no game theory. If America hadn't invested as much as it did in DOD, I think it would be weaker and Europe would have to compensate and would then produce more of it's own needs.
- fidgewidge 4y agoThe issue is that without the US there wouldn't be NATO, and Europe wouldn't have replaced it with anything effective. The closest attempt at an equivalent is the EU army which has never got off the ground, and if it did would be structured in ways optimal for the EU's political goals rather than what makes sense militarily. Think dozens of smaller forces that don't speak each other's languages very well. US DoD has similar issues with congressional pork but it's still one organization and one military under one government.