Would You Die for Europe? A Binational Battalion Offers an Answer

Would You Die for Europe? A Binational Battalion Offers an Answer

• A German-led tank battalion with Dutch soldiers gives a glimpse of what a “real European army” may look like one day.
• The idea has new urgency because of the U.S. threat to withdraw the Continent’s security guarantee if it does not spend more on its defense.

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Cpl. First Class Leon Berkepeis of the Netherlands, center, with German soldiers of Tank Battalion 414. Laetitia Vancon for The New York Times