The third version of the draft ‘Strategic Compass’ provides further details on the future ‘EU Rapid Deployment Capacity’.
According to the draft, dated 18 February, the EU specifies what its Rapid Deployment Capacity will be: a “modular force of up to 5,000 troops, including land, air and maritime components, as well as the required strategic enablers”.
“Such a modular capacity can be used in different phases of an operation in a non-permissive environment, such as initial...