If NATO is to succeed, this must change without further delay.

A NATO summit, during which all members would take stock of the situation and draw the appropriate conclusions, is therefore long overdue.

It was NATO s job to ensure the country s stability and security, and thus NATO s weak General Secretary and the European allies, especially Germany and France, share the responsibility for the worsening situation.

While the European Space Agency advocates the peaceful development of space assets and the peaceful use of space. There is an underlying contradiction between the EU space policy and the NATO space defence policy that needs to be addressed.

But the Bush administration is not the sole culprit for the deteriorating situation in Afghanistan. It was NATO s job to ensure the country s stability and security, and thus NATO s weak General Secretary and the European allies, especially Germany and France, share the responsibility for the worsening situation.

India is not a member of the United States led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF), a largely NATO operation to which it was not invited to contribute, given Pakistani sensitivities about a possible Indian military presence in Afghanistan.

Throughout the Cold War the Norwegian Air Force was only one of two NATO air forces Turkey being the other with a responsibility for an area with a land border with the Soviet Union, and Norwegian fighter aircraft had on average 500 600 interceptions of Soviet aircraft each year.

Part of NATO s trouble stems from the fact that a number of member states insist on the right to make their own military and political decisions, and these national reservations severely limit NATO s ability to act. If NATO is to succeed, this must change without further delay.