Home pagePress CenterIn the Media A CSIS Defense Industrial Initiatives Group report, European Military Defense Spending, 2001-2006, was quoted by Bloomberg, "Sarkozy, Chastened by Chad, Seeks Money, Men for EU Defense Arm."
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A CSIS Defense Industrial Initiatives Group report, European Military Defense Spending, 2001-2006, was quoted by Bloomberg, "Sarkozy, Chastened by Chad, Seeks Money, Men for EU Defense Arm."
The European Union's biggest peacekeeping mission, the dispatch of 3,700 troops to Chad this year, got off to an inauspicious start: EU governments repeatedly delayed the deployment, halted troop transports when fighting broke out in February, and ultimately had to rely on Russian helicopters to ferry the force to the African desert.
The rocky start to the mission to protect 400,000 refugees displaced by civil war in Sudan and fighting in Chad was a blow to French President Nicolas Sarkozy, who had goaded the EU with the words: "We're not going to let Chad fall."[...]
The core of any European force, experts agree, has to be France and Britain, holders of the bloc's most capable armies and, because of their colonial past, the EU countries with the most global commitments. They're the EU's only nuclear powers and combined to spend $114 billion on defense in 2006, about 45 percent of the EU total, according to the Center for Strategic and International Studies, which is based in Washington. Read the article
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