TY - BOOK AU - Biscop, Sven AU - Coelmont, Jo ED - Royal Institute for International Relations (EGMONT) TI - The EU Global Strategy and Defence: : The Challenge of Thinking Strategically about Means T2 - Security Policy Brief PY - 2016/// CY - Rue des Petits Carmes, 24 A, 1000 Brussels, Belgium PB - Royal Institute for International Relations (EGMONT) KW - Estrategias de seguridad KW - Países de la Unión Europea N2 - Since strategy is about connecting ends, ways and means, the means constrain the ends. It would be unrealistic to set objectives for which the means are unavailable or cannot be acquired in time. But it would be equally unrealistic to underestimate the available means. To wilfully ignore one’s potential is to handicap one’s strategy from the outset UR - http://www.egmontinstitute.be/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/SPB78.pdf ER -