EUROPEAN DEFENCE GAP: Capabilities, Shortfalls and the Road to Strategic Autonomy
A Comprehensive Assessment of European Military Capabilities, Industrial Deficiencies,
What this report establishes
“EUROPEAN DEFENCE GAP: Capabilities, Shortfalls and the Road to Strategic Autonomy” is a sourced, structured Defence Finance Monitor analysis, closed on 24 February 2026. It establishes what is at stake, who the actors are and what it means for European defence funding and industry — drawn only from primary and official sources. This page summarises what the 13-page report determines; the figures, the evidence and the conclusions are in the report itself.
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Key questions this report answers
- Why is integrated air and missile defence identified as Europe's most urgent capability gap, and what would closing it require industrially?
- How does the munitions industrial-capacity shortfall create a dependency trap, and how does it constrain European rearmament under compressed timelines?
- What is the structural nuclear-deterrence void that the analysis argues no one wants to name, and why does it matter for European autonomy?
- On a realistic balance sheet, what can and cannot Europe do given the persistent gap between financial commitments and operational readiness?
Inside this report
- 2. INTEGRATED AIR AND MISSILE DEFENCE: THE MOST URGENT GAP
- 3. MUNITIONS, INDUSTRIAL CAPACITY AND THE DEPENDENCY TRAP
- 4. DRONES, ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND ELECTRONIC WARFARE: THE NEW BATTLEFIELD
- 5. LOGISTICS AND MILITARY MOBILITY: THE INVISIBLE BOTTLENECK
- 6. COMMAND, CONTROL AND PLANNING: WHO GIVES THE ORDERS?
- 7. NUCLEAR DETERRENCE: THE STRUCTURAL VOID NO ONE WANTS TO NAME
- 8. A REALISTIC BALANCE SHEET: WHAT EUROPE CAN — AND CANNOT — DO
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