Has Europe, the old power, forgotten what power is? That question is the starting point of this book. Europeans are no longer used to looking at the world through the strategic process that I have just outlined. We no longer systematically think about strategy, about what our objectives should be, and about how we can use our power to achieve them. Even when lecturing for diplomats and officers from EU Member States and institutions, as I regularly do,2 I often get the question: is strategy really necessary? The answer must be: “the need for strategy never sleeps!” (Gray, 2016, p. 29).
