Strategic Insights: Is the European Union Really That Important to U.S. Security Interests?
March 9, 2017 | Dr. John R. Deni
Questioning long-held assumptions and challenging existing paradigms in U.S. security policy can be a useful way to ensure that American leaders are not pursuing strategies that do not actually support and promote U.S. interests. However, on the question of whether the European Union’s (EU) existence is in U.S. interests, the evidence is consistently clear. It most definitely is, and undermining it—for example, by promoting Brexit or suggesting other countries would or should follow the United Kingdom’s (UK) exit from the EU—risks the further unraveling of the international order that is central to American prosperity and security.1
https://ssi.armywarcollege.edu/index.cfm/articles/Is-the-EU-Really-That-Important-to-US-Security-Interests/2017/03/09
