{"id":19113,"date":"2026-09-29T09:46:47","date_gmt":"2026-09-29T12:46:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fie.undef.edu.ar\/ceptm\/?p=19113"},"modified":"2026-09-29T09:46:47","modified_gmt":"2026-09-29T12:46:47","slug":"unidad-o-fragmentacion-la-modernizacion-de-la-defensa-europea-las-estrategias-de-los-estados-pequenos-y-el-muro-de-drones-de-la-ue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fie.undef.edu.ar\/ceptm\/?p=19113","title":{"rendered":"\u00bfUnidad o fragmentaci\u00f3n? La modernizaci\u00f3n de la defensa europea, las estrategias de los estados peque\u00f1os y el muro de drones de la UE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Desde la invasi\u00f3n a gran escala de Ucrania por parte de Rusia en 2022, Europa ha acelerado la modernizaci\u00f3n de su defensa mediante un mayor gasto militar y nuevas iniciativas de cooperaci\u00f3n. A pesar de estos avances, el principal desaf\u00edo para lograr una aut\u00e9ntica autonom\u00eda estrat\u00e9gica europea sigue siendo la brecha entre la integraci\u00f3n t\u00e9cnica y la unidad pol\u00edtica. El texto subraya que la autonom\u00eda estrat\u00e9gica no es una cuesti\u00f3n de todo o nada y destaca el papel relevante que desempe\u00f1an los estados europeos de menor tama\u00f1o para impulsarla. Estos pa\u00edses act\u00faan a menudo como innovadores en conceptos operativos, cooperaci\u00f3n industrial y desarrollo institucional, incluso cuando no existe un consenso m\u00e1s amplio en el seno de la UE. La iniciativa EU Drone Wall ejemplifica esta din\u00e1mica: impulsada por los Estados de primera l\u00ednea, demuestra c\u00f3mo las asociaciones bilaterales espec\u00edficas pueden mejorar r\u00e1pidamente las capacidades de defensa, al tiempo que pone de manifiesto c\u00f3mo las discrepancias pol\u00edticas siguen limitando una integraci\u00f3n m\u00e1s profunda de la defensa europea.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Key points<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span lang=\"EN-GB\">Europe\u2019s defence modernisation initiatives accelerated sharply after Russia\u2019s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, driving significant increases in spending and new joint initiatives. However, the gap between technical integration and political cohesion remains the central obstacle to genuine European strategic autonomy, i.e. the capacity of European states to develop and sustain independent defence capabilities and act collectively without excessive reliance on external actors.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span lang=\"EN-GB\">Strategic autonomy is not a binary condition. In domains such as counter-uncrewed aerial systems, small frontline states are building genuine operational autonomy. In other domains such as strategic airlift, long-range strike, and space-based intelligence, dependence on the United States remains profound.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span lang=\"EN-GB\">Small states are not peripheral to EU strategic autonomy, but among its primary drivers, operating through operational pioneering, industrial enabling, and institutional shaping even when EU-wide consensus is absent.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span lang=\"EN-GB\">The EU Drone Wall illustrates both the potential and limits of coordinated European defence. Led by small frontline states, it shows how bilateral industrial partnerships can advance operational capability more rapidly than EU-wide institutional processes, but also how political divisions constrain integration.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fie.undef.edu.ar\/ceptm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/SSA-2026_47_Vllasi-Scheidegger_Unity-or-Fragmentationdigital.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-5168\" src=\"https:\/\/www.fie.undef.edu.ar\/ceptm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/icono-PDF-1-243x300.png\" alt=\"Descargar archivo pdf\" width=\"75\" height=\"93\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.fie.undef.edu.ar\/ceptm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/icono-PDF-1-243x300.png 243w, https:\/\/www.fie.undef.edu.ar\/ceptm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/icono-PDF-1.png 310w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 75px) 100vw, 75px\" \/><\/a><strong>Fuente:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gcsp.ch\/publications\/unity-or-fragmentation-european-defence-modernisation-small-states-strategies-and-eu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>https:\/\/www.gcsp.ch<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Desde la invasi\u00f3n a gran escala de Ucrania por parte de Rusia en 2022, Europa ha acelerado la modernizaci\u00f3n de su defensa mediante un mayor&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19114,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[18,2,37,28],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fie.undef.edu.ar\/ceptm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19113"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fie.undef.edu.ar\/ceptm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fie.undef.edu.ar\/ceptm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fie.undef.edu.ar\/ceptm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fie.undef.edu.ar\/ceptm\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19113"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fie.undef.edu.ar\/ceptm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19113\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19116,"href":"https:\/\/www.fie.undef.edu.ar\/ceptm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19113\/revisions\/19116"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fie.undef.edu.ar\/ceptm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/19114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fie.undef.edu.ar\/ceptm\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fie.undef.edu.ar\/ceptm\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fie.undef.edu.ar\/ceptm\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}