Nico Lange is the founder of IRIS and a former German defence chief of staff. He has argued that Europe must build its own "strategic enablers"—satellites, intelligence networks, electronic-warfare systems and long-range strike capabilities—to reduce dependence on America for the systems that make modern warfare work.
In Dr. Johnson's famous dictionary patriotism is defined as the last resort of the scoundrel. With all due respect to an enlightened but inferior lexicographer I beg to submit that it is the first.