Strategic Insights, authored by faculty, staff, alumni, and friends of the George C. Marshall European Center for Security Studies, identify, contextualize, analyze, and provide policy recommendations related to significant current and emerging defense and security issues. Strategic Insights are research-based. The in-depth analyses provide fellow researchers, policymakers, and practitioners in the field of international security with timely, targeted, and relevant findings related to regional and global challenges facing our NATO, EU, and European security partners and beyond.

Strategic Insights are authored by George C. Marshall European Center for Security Studies faculty, staff, Fellows, alumni, and others affiliated with the Center. The series is published by the George C. Marshall European Center for Security Studies, located in Garmish-Partenkirchen, Bayern, Germany. The series launched in 2025. ISSN 3053-0326.

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