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NEWNATIONS BULLETIN 14 SEPTEMBER 2011
In June 2006 Newnations published: “What Is Nato For ?”
Today, five years later we are asking essentially the same question.
But now we also propose an answer.
In a study concerning only European security - Nato’s original role of ‘keeping the Russians out’, would have little bearing on asking the question of, “where is Nato going”? But the geographical mould is broken. Afghanistan is half a world away from the North Atlantic region.
What Nato actually now is, does not need much explanation. Geoffrey Wheatcroft’s suggested term: ‘America’s Foreign Legion,’ is close to the mark. Before 2001, it could hardly have been foreseen that elements of the US’s Nato allies would now have been fighting in the shadow of the Pamirs for ten years…and flying in support of North African rebels.
What can safely be said, is that Nato is a clear cut military success. It has proved to be professional and reliable. In an uncertain world we suggest how its remit should be enlarged.
Clive Lindley, Newnations senior editor, a long time Nato watcher who also wrote the 2006 piece, now offers his suggestions and their rationale.
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