> I'd be very surprised if the EU is able to successfully finance, equip,
> manage, support and deploy a military force comparable to the United
> States any time soon.
The EU is capable of all that, except managing it: too many internal quarrels about who gets to manage what.
The EU is willing to do none of it (except maybe managing it: I suspect that some people would love nothing more but to move toy ships, toy tanks and toy airplanes over a very large map of the world).
BTW, one reason why historic data on manpower would skew the real power is that quite a few European nations used to have a military service untill recently. It appears that pretty soon that will be the other way around.
Jochem
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