Alongside Bosnia Herzegovina, Serbia moved closer to NATO in 2006.

Globalizing NATO

The Death of NATO

The Necessity of NATO

NATO after Riga

NATO s Dangerous Signals

And then that year, that year, 2008, this ISAF statement from Kabul, Afghanistan, September 17th General Stanley McChrystal, commander of international security assistance forces in Afghanistan, announced today ISAF will not conduct offensive military operations on the 21st of September.

NATO After Istanbul

NATO Must Be Saved

NATO s Dangerous Afghan Dream

Europeans relied on NATO and the US to defend them in case of Soviet aggression.

NATO expansion is off the table.

Sarkozy s Three Way NATO Bet

Between March and June 1999 the period of NATO bombing the number of deaths and expulsions in Kosovo shot up.

At the height of America s power, Russia had resigned itself to the apparently unstoppable encroachment of NATO on the Soviet Union s former sphere of influence.

NATO officials persuasively argued that their collective defense commitment could not be delegated to a non NATO member.

Re Setting the NATO Russia Relationship

NATO itself embodies that goal.

NATO has bet the alliance on Afghanistan.

Moreover, NATO in a way defines the sphere of a civilization, which of course doesn t mean that NATO s community is better than any other.

France was one of the founding members of NATO (1949).

NATO has been involved in the destruction of a number of surplus stockpiles.

NATO forced Serb forces to withdraw in June 1999, and international peacekeepers, under NATO s leadership, occupied Kosovo.

BRUSSELS On a hillside overlooking the Turkish city of Gaziantep, Patriot missile launchers are keeping watch under NATO command and control.

NATO soldiers die in vain.

NATO holds regular consultations with all of our partners.

Of course, this another ridiculous fabrication from the same man who famously said that the Bosnian Muslims had shelled their own villages in order to lure NATO into the war.

NATO, however, unlike the EU, is a military organization.

NATO needs Russia, and Russia needs NATO, and the US shift away from unilateralism has restored the importance of multilateral security institutions while giving NATO the chance to establish new partnerships with the EU and Russia.

Moreover, NATO benefits from the military might of a dominant nation, while the EU must depend on the shared voluntary efforts of its members.

NATO s intervention in Kosovo was underway, and critics claimed that prosecuting Milosevic made the tribunal an arm of NATO and would prevent a settlement.

He wanted to demonstrate to his Western partners that Georgia needed NATO protection from Russia, and that accession was therefore urgent.

NATO has been flexible since its inception.

All of these reforms demand coordination with NATO.

West European armies were embedded in NATO.

NATO, however, has stood aside.

NATO allies could make a similar statement.

And NATO is the most solid security insurance that the world has.

International Security Assistance Force commanded by the North Atlantic Treaty Organization

When the Soviet Union collapsed, many predicted the end of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO).

At the same time, NATO after Riga faces a number of problems.

NATO has, of course, shown remarkable tenacity.

Charles de Gaulle took France out of the NATO military alliance in 1966.

NATO faced off against the Warsaw Pact, created by the Soviet Union and its allies in 1955.

We need NATO and NATO needs us in order to face common threats and challenges.