The Future of NATO

Abstract

For more than 60 years, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) has united the West, kept Europe secure and seen the end of the cold war due to the collapse of the Soviet Union and the dissolution of the Warsaw Pact. At the strategic level, the greatest evolution in NATO since the end of the Cold War is the transition of NATO from a static defense force to an expeditionary force. NATO has deployed forces to remote and vast areas of the world for a decade. At the same time European national defense, budgets have fallen consistently. American public opinion toward Europe has fallen similarly and the majority of Americans think that the U.S. spends too much on the security of Europe. The alliance has restructured the number of NATO members have expanded and a new strategic concept is under implementation. This research paper analyzes NATO s transatlantic cohesion. It discusses the future of NATO in the light of the new strategic concept and the obvious disagreement between Europe and America on how to set priorities and allocate resources.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 15, 2012
Accession Number
ADA562260

Entities

People

  • Kim Schmidt

Organizations

  • United States Army War College

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical
  • C4I
  • Cyber
  • Human Systems
  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Agreements
  • Alliances
  • Cold War
  • Department Of Defense
  • Education
  • Foreign Relations
  • Governments
  • Intergovernmental Organizations
  • International Organizations
  • International Relations
  • Military Budgets
  • Military Science
  • National Security
  • Security
  • Treaties
  • United States
  • War Colleges

Fields of Study

  • Political science

Readers

  • East Asian Political and Security Studies within the Soviet Union
  • European Security and Defence Policy (ESDP).
  • Maritime Combat Support and Expeditionary Logistics.