An old mission helps aging NATO find new purpose
Apr 09, 2019
3 minutes
NATO, the post-World War II alliance between America and western Europe, is marking its 70th anniversary amid daunting internal tensions. Yet, to slightly misquote Mark Twain, reports of its demise have been greatly exaggerated.
And in an irony Twain himself might have appreciated, it has none other to thank for that than Russian leader Vladimir Putin.
In recent years, NATO had begun to show its age. It wasn’t yet “obsolete,” to
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