建立联合管理机制和削减常规防卫力量将成为两大长期挑战：在功能上颠覆了传统防卫组织以国家为组成元素的构成机制；而在政治上则必须对某些国家主权做出让渡。
Establishing joint management and overhauling conventional defense capacities will be a two-pronged challenge: functional, owing to the traditional schema of defense organizations, and political, inasmuch as a cession of state sovereignty will be required.