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This text argues that the politics of Brexit and the implementation of the new EU Global Strategy for Foreign and Security Policy have generated renewed momentum for European defense cooperation. To capitalize on this revived interest, however, defense cooperation and integration must be pursued on two levels -- at the EU level, where the focus should be on large-scale projects and “strategic enablers,” and 2) at the state level, where EU members should cluster together to create large deployable multinational formations that are supported by fully integrated maintenance and logistics structures.