Strategic Autonomy in European Defence: Requirements and Challenges
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About this report
Defence Finance Monitor bridges the gap between the defence and financial worlds, offering a strategic lens on Europe’s path toward military self-reliance. This report examines what European countries truly need—militarily, industrially, and politically—to defend themselves without relying on the United States.
It clarifies the scale of investment, the timeframe required, and the institutional innovations necessary to match modern threats. Understanding the defence-finance nexus is key to assessing both the risks and opportunities in this transformation. For investors, policymakers, and analysts, DFM provides the insight needed to track Europe's rearmament and autonomy agenda.
Key questions this report answers
- What weapon systems by domain does Europe require to defend itself without relying on the United States?
- What defence-industrial-base bottlenecks and dependencies, and what budgetary projections and timelines, does the transition demand?
- How do operational readiness, logistics and intelligence, cyber and C4ISR improvements factor into European self-reliance?
- What policy, legal and institutional enablers are needed to match modern threats, and what are the investment implications?
Inside this report
- Required Weapon Systems by Domain
- Defence Industrial Base: Bottlenecks and Dependencies
- Budgetary Projections and Timelines
- Operational Readiness and Logistics
- Intelligence, Cyber and C4ISR Improvements
- Policy, Legal and Institutional Enablers
Who it's for
Strategy, corporate-development and investment teams that need an ecosystem-level view — budgets, industrial capacity and technology landscapes — before committing capital or capacity.
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DFM reports are built from primary and official sources — TED procurement notices, CORDIS and the EU Funding & Tenders Portal, EIB operations, the NATO Innovation Fund portfolio, SIPRI data, official budget documents and company disclosures — read together with the underlying legal texts. Sources are cited in the document; it reflects them as of its publication date (05 June 2025). You receive a 16-page PDF, watermarked to you on every page, delivered on the confirmation page and by e-mail immediately after checkout (personal link valid 72 hours, up to 5 downloads). Guest checkout, single-user licence — Terms of Sale.
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