Originally Posted by
B Fraser
It's a potentially expensive vanity project, like much else.
I think the way Ukraine has been helped with a huge assortment of varied equipment and (presumably) has supply/maintenance problems with it does suggest that the countries in NATO now could buy equipment in bulk and standardise more. The US, a much more integrated federal system, must have an advantage from being able to make very large purchases. An EU army might be able to get some degree of standardisation going at least when it comes to equipment that might be used in a European land war.
I'm sure it would be hard to get everyone "on the same page" but NATO has done it to some extent and perhaps we could just do it more.