Getting NATO Back to Basics


 

Publication Date: October 2002

Publisher: Heritage Foundation (Washington, D.C.)

Author(s): John Hillen

Research Area: International relations

Keywords: Europe

Type: Report

Abstract:

NATO needs to get back to basics. In the absence of a clear and present danger to Europe, it has lost its focus. It has tried to become relevant by embarking on military makework programs for the United Nations, and now on its own behalf. These diffuse efforts have diluted-NATO’s cohesion and caused U.S. public support for the alliance to erode.