promote cohesion in those areas of trade, the free movement of goods and people and on some aspects of foreign and security policy where strategic unity of effort and purpose is essential. It is not a sovereign state. Americans must at least understand one thing; a US of E would be nothing like the good ole US of A. Certainly, no latter day Rome would emerge, more likely would be a very large Greece. About Me Julian Lindley-French is an internationally-recognised strategic analyst, advisor and author. Formerly Eisenhower Professor of Defence Strategy at the Netherlands Defence Academy,and Special Professor of Strategic Studies at the University of Leiden. He is a Fellow of Respublica in London, Associate Fellow of the Austrian Institute for European and Security Studies and a member of the Strategic Advisory Group of the Atlantic Council of the United States in Washington. He is also a member of the Academic Advisory Board of the NATO Defence College in Rome. Latest book: The Oxford Handbook on War (2012; 709 pages). (Oxford: Oxford University Press) The Friendly-Clinch Health Warning: The views contained herein are entirely my own.