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NATO Land Forces Losing Combat Capacity, New Essay Finds

Defense Daily Staff

Friday, June 13th, 2014

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NATO has no equal in terms of gross domestic product and has the world’s largest aggregate defense sector, but declining defense budgets and dwindling public support for complex foreign deployments are leaving land forces with fewer people and equipment, according to a new essay. Since the 1990s, most NATO members have professionalized and modernized their land forces, but smaller forces mean risks in future missions, said the essay, “NATO’s Land Forces: Losing Ground,” by Guillaume Lasconjarias, part of the National…

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