The Abilities of the British, French, and German Armies to Generate and Sustain Armored Brigades in the Baltics

Abstract

In previous RAND Corporation studies, we examined how key North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) countries especially Britain, France, and Germany had been cutting their military budgets and restructuring their forces in light of perceived risk, with the net result that they have reduced their abilities to generate and sustain forces while also reducing their capacity to engage in high-end conventional warfare against peer or near-peer opponents.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jul 05, 2018
Accession Number
AD1055511

Entities

People

  • Michael Shurkin

Organizations

  • RAND Corporation

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Human Systems
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Armored Personnel Carriers
  • Armored Vehicles
  • Army Personnel
  • Conventional Warfare
  • Corporations
  • Deployment
  • Europe
  • European Union
  • Germany
  • Governments
  • Homeland Security
  • Infantry Fighting Vehicles
  • Intellectual Property
  • Military Equipment
  • Military Forces (Foreign)
  • National Security
  • Nato
  • Security
  • Task Forces
  • Training
  • United Kingdom
  • United States
  • Vehicles
  • Warfare

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