Fortress Europe thinks the unthinkable: going it alone on defence

For the UK, it’s almost like we need to learn how to do strategic thinking again, because we’ve almost outsourced it to the Americans...We’re in a very difficult situation, because every time we’ve done a [strategic] review, the first Post-it note that goes up on the whiteboard says ‘US primacy’ and then Nato is a close second. We’ve never really had to consider a world where there is a reduced US commitment not just to Europe but to the UK.”