Defense Policy Europe European Union Security & Defense It has been one year since the EU released the Defence Readiness Roadmap 2030, a detailed plan to measure and close Europe’s capability gaps. Fifteen of the roadmap’s milestones are on track or complete; seventeen are not; the status of thirteen milestones is unclear. Instead of trying to entirely replace the US, Europe should focus on the key capabilities it can’t currently produce and that the US has suggested it will pull back.