Being in the military for 25 years, F. has been assigned several times in multinational headquarters at both operational and pol-mil levels.

This cultural background has developed some curiosity towards our neighbours leading to an attempt to understand better why building up a European Defence was so difficult despite our common History.

In order to have a better understanding of this issue, F. has decided to have a regular look at the media and official websites of the countries he practices the languages: France, Germany, Spain and in some occasions Finland. From those readings he will try to discriminate the ins and outs of European Defence which is taking form now and which could be really at Full Operational Capability only when our children will be grown up.