Michael Cecire
Security, Europe
NATO’s current posture of retrenchment is a withdrawal from the Alliance’s founding raison d’etre.
NATO is slouching towards crisis. Beneath a facade of solidarity in the face of Russian revanchism, the Atlantic alliance is facing potentially its stiffest existential test since the end of the Cold War as questions emerge over the kind of organization it claims to be—versus what it does in practice. Controversy is nothing new to the twenty-eight-member club; the NATO mission in Afghanistan, for example, underscored sharp divisions between member states’ willingness and ability to participate in faraway stabilization missions. NATO today, however, is …read more
Source: The National Interest
