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Throughout history, wars have been the most powerful paths of civilisation transfer. This transfer, which prolonged the short-term effects of material gains, powerfully opened the doors of new eras for civilisations. At other times, wars brought about the end of some civilisations, and those that survived continued to struggle with the legacy of the old. As a matter of fact, for a long period of time, wars were centred on the aim of ‘elimination’.
The irresistible change in the world as we approach the present day has brought the aims of wars to another dimension. As countries moved away from the economy of conquest and booty with the Age of Discovery, and as production became the centre of the economy, especially with the Industrial Revolution, wars were fought with the aim of supporting production and marketing. Nevertheless, this aim gave rise to the problem of the ‘inability to divide the world’, and the resulting two world wars left irreversible suffering in their wake.
In the period following the World Wars, Western countries preferred to unite in order not to fight rather than to fight in order to disintegrate. The League of Nations (MC) was the first institutional experiment following the Great War. Although it became ineffective with the outbreak of World War II, it was an impressive step forward. The United Nations (UN), which was created after this war, was a candidate to ensure global peace by modifying the shortcomings of the MC. However, it did not seem possible to build a common legacy that would ensure the same view of peace all over the world. Moreover, the two wars that left heavy damage were centred in Europe. Therefore, the main threat to global peace seemed to be Europe’s internal problems.
When Europeans realised that they could not overcome their internal problems by fighting, they tried to be born on the world trend of unification. They accepted the differences they had previously fought against as ‘diversity’ and preferred to integrate on the basis of their common values. Today, the European Union (EU or Union), the only one of its kind with its supranational structure, is a product of this birth. The integration of Europe was mainly based on economic, commercial and cultural integration. In this way, countries were linked in such a way that they could not tolerate a system in which each other was weakened.
Although a military form of this integration has been on the agenda from time to time, the security guarantees promised by the United States of America (USA or United States) and embodied in the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) and the unwillingness of countries to compromise their military sovereignty have blocked the path to a ‘European Army’. Now Europe is more favourable to the idea than before. In the following article, there having to examine the history of the military wing of European integration and analyse the chances of this army being legally viable in light of the changing conditions from past to present.
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