The United States has traditionally held many reservations and mixed views about the evolution of an autonomous European defense identity apart from NATO.

How can the EU and NATO work together to address and manage security issues in Europe's neighborhood?

The EU’s ambition is to become a more strategically autonomous security player. But this will require more attention to designing EU defense initiatives so they strengthen both European and transatlantic security.

Trump and Brexit are challenging Europe’s defense cooperation. The incoming European Commission will need to devote time and effort to make up for any shortfall.

The European Commission has become more involved in EU defense policy. To see changes implemented, however, it must prove it can help the EU develop into a more capable defense actor.

NATO countries have been relegated to fretting and hedging their bets as long as Trump stays in the Oval Office.

The 2018 NATO summit was more than the United States haranguing and bad mouthing its Europeans allies. It was about an attempt to reorder the transatlantic relationship.

The U.S. president has a very narrow view of American security policy—one that NATO does not necessarily fit into.

U.S. President Donald Trump may undo any progress NATO leaders achieve at the 2018 NATO summit when he meets with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Helsinki.

Europeans have, on paper, been able to make significant strides on defense cooperation over the past year.

Better EU defense integration may be bad news for the alliance—but the US is wrong to oppose it.

If EU member states were to really do something to boost the union’s defences, what would it be? Not PESCO.