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NATO’s Last Chance
April 13, 2011 / Andrew A. Michta
The American Interest
As spring 2011 bursts into bloom, the NATO alliance finds itself withering on the vine. An alliance that was once the quintessential expression and spearpoint of the Transatlantic security relationship is now at risk of undermining it. Notwithstanding the adoption of a New Strategic Concept and Critical Capabilities Initiative at the November 2010 Lisbon Summit, internal differences over Afghanistan and a widening Transatlantic gap in defense spending are fast overshadowing the larger imperative of Euro-American security cooperation. All signs point to accumulating distress.
At a time when the Obama Administration has committed to a 30,000-strong troop surge in Afghanistan and has apparently extended its timetable for withdrawal, Europe’s response has been to further reduce defense spending across the board and accelerate its own disengagement from the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF). Cracks in the Transatlantic relationship, however, go beyond anxieties over current Afghan operations. A few months ago at Lisbon, NATO heralded the adoption of a New Strategic Concept, but that concept, quite aside from its being a disturbingly 25 years late aborning, doesn’t look like it will help the allies overcome their disparate perceptions of threat environments and hence of the alliance mission itself.
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