The sixth issue of European Defence Matters, the official magazine of the European Defence Agency, is now available online.
In this issue we focus on several topics of interest for European defence. Our cover story, dealing with support to operations, reviews recent EDA achievements in that domain including the latest developments of the successful EU Satcom Market initiative, lessons learned from the deployment of the EDA-developed Counter-IED laboratory in Afghanistan and the acquisition of air-to-ground surveillance services for operation EUFOR Althea.
In another feature story, we report on three major training exercises, which took place since the beginning of 2014 and all contributed to enhancing interoperability between European aircrews. Meanwhile, we report on recent developments for the European defence industry in our brand new “Industry News” section which will provide readers with the latest information on the land, sea, air, space and cyber domains.
Appointed in January 2014 as the new French Chief of the Defence Staff, General Pierre de Villiers has accepted to discuss European Defence issues in the latest edition of our magazine. He will share his views on many topics including the military capabilities needed for the decades to come, the challenges of the European defence industrial base and multinational training at European level.
As we celebrate 10 years of the Agency in 2014, this latest edition of the magazine will also include exclusive excerpts of the book that will be published at the end of the year to commemorate the event.
More information
- European Defence Matters, issue 6, is available here