{"id":42718,"date":"2025-04-23T02:51:07","date_gmt":"2025-04-23T02:51:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/42718\/"},"modified":"2025-04-23T02:51:07","modified_gmt":"2025-04-23T02:51:07","slug":"how-europe-moves-its-armies-without-american-assistance-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/42718\/","title":{"rendered":"How Europe moves its armies without American assistance \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jannik Hartmann, a fellow at the German Council on Foreign Relations, confirmed that a U.S. pullback \u2014 from Germany&#8217;s Ramstein Air Base, for instance \u2014 would leave Europe without basic loading gear like ramps and flatbed wagons. Europe also has few forward stockpiles of military hardware, whereas the U.S. has pre-positioned supplies across Germany, Poland and the Netherlands, Kruijver said.<\/p>\n<p>Air-to-air refueling \u2014 essential in contested airspace \u2014 is still largely a U.S. domain. Europe\u2019s defense of its eastern flank relies on American-financed NATO fuel networks stretching across the continent. If Washington retreats, countries like France and Germany would scramble to fill the gap, Hartmann wrote in a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/posts\/jannik-hartmann-18b21b1bb_military-mobility-nato-plans-new-pipeline-activity-7300122987809140739-hYpn\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">LinkedIn post<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The dependence extends beyond logistics: Europe also relies on U.S. intelligence, cyber defenses and hybrid threat detection. \u201cIf the U.S. pulls back, real-time intelligence and satellite surveillance will be the first to suffer,\u201d said Simon Van Hoeymissen, a researcher at the Brussels-based Royal Higher Institute for Defense.<\/p>\n<p>U.S. cybersecurity capabilities play a crucial role in defending Europe\u2019s military networks. Without them, the continent\u2019s infrastructure would become an easy target for cyberattacks, sabotage and disinformation campaigns. Even with increased investment, Europe would struggle to replace these capabilities in the short term, Hartmann noted.<\/p>\n<p>Blocked roads<\/p>\n<p>But even assuming Europe could procure its own assets, moving troops, tanks and fuel across the continent \u2014 and not necessarily along the old west-to-east pathway traditional to NATO \u2014 would be a challenge.<\/p>\n<p>Hodges called European infrastructure \u201cone of the greatest challenges\u201d to military mobility.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jannik Hartmann, a fellow at the German Council on Foreign Relations, confirmed that a U.S. pullback \u2014 from&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":42719,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5174],"tags":[23909,7703,1111,473,32,2000,7704,299,5187,1114,23762,23910,23911,2821,770,332,1263,49],"class_list":{"0":"post-42718","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-eu","8":"tag-apostolos-tzitzikostas","9":"tag-artillery","10":"tag-belarus","11":"tag-defense","12":"tag-donald-trump","13":"tag-eu","14":"tag-eu-us-military-ties","15":"tag-europe","16":"tag-european","17":"tag-lithuania","18":"tag-logistics","19":"tag-military-mobility","20":"tag-military-transport","21":"tag-nato","22":"tag-poland","23":"tag-russia","24":"tag-transport","25":"tag-united-states"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114385012915307995","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42718","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42718"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42718\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}