European armies underwent a massive force reduction following the Cold War in the 1990s when they cut defense spending dramatically and hollowed out their forces, creating structural deficits that persist decades later and cannot be rapidly reversed.
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Shashank JoshiEvidence Quote
“in the Cold War Europe had big flourishing armies with decent stocks of ammunition good levels of training preparation and that all changed in the 1990s and they cut their defense spending massively hollowed out their forces”
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