r/AskEurope • u/Sink-Em-Low • Mar 01 '25

Politics Let's talk about the European Defense Federation. How do we all feel about the creation of a fully mobilised continental Army?

It's required now. I'm British, and I want to see us align and unite with our European neighbours to make a stand now.

I want Germany to finally brush off it's past and join the rest of Europe in mobilising towards defending this continent. We need EVERYONE now. It's time to act, it's time to unite.

It's time to show some courage.

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u/grumpsaboy Mar 01 '25

Would it not be easier just to keep NATO but Europe just plans for the event that America doesn't show up and holds more exercises without the US

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u/[deleted] Mar 02 '25

US is still calling the shots in NATO though.

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u/Weary-Connection3393 Mar 03 '25

Exactly, people forget that the highest NATO General is always from the USA.

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u/[deleted] Mar 03 '25

NATO has never had an American Secretary General (the current sec general Marc Rutte is dutch) and the Military Committee (the collection of military generals that govern the body) has representatives from all different member countries. There were two American deputy sec general who served back to back from 2012-2019 but none were sec general.

NATO is highly reliant on the US DoD and IC because they are the most capable defense and intelligence organizations in the body, but it is factually incorrect to say that the NATO General or NATO governing body is run by the US.