Aligning Strategic Priorities and Foreign Military Sales to Fill Critical Capability Gaps

Worldwide demand for U.S. defense equipment has increased, yet the U.S. defense industrial base and U.S. government's foreign military sales (FMS) enterprise have limited ability to address all capability needs of North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) allies in a timely manner. The authors propose a conceptual framework for systematic prioritization of FMS to NATO allies in alignment with U.S. and NATO defense priorities in Europe.