Comment by ericmay

In my view the only benefit to an EU Army would be as a way to demilitarize EU member states so that they can't start a war with one another as they no longer have a military to directly control. Recreating NATO (and dissolving decades of institutional investment) and calling it the EU Army and then excluding the United States from backing you up just does not seem like a smart idea. Partnering with the U.S. is a good and desirable thing and is always a matter of choice. It just sometimes seems like it's not a choice because scenarios in which you are not choosing the United States are almost non-existent.