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European defense by the numbers

February 12, 2026

The McKinsey European Defense Dashboard presented here provides a comprehensive set of metrics to track the evolving defense posture of European NATO countries.

About the authors

This article is a collaborative effort by David Chinn, Hugues Lavandier, and Jakob Stöber, with Marcel Schlepper and Tobias Otto, representing views from McKinsey’s Aerospace & Defense Practice.

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