We would like to see this arrangement continue, at least for now, at least until NATO can be expanded to include all of those states that currently set themselves up in opposition to it, a prospect even Russia’s own leaders in the early post-Soviet years were able to entertain with some...
The French military is limited but still “indisputably the most capable in Western Europe,” as Michael Shurkin noted in a2023 analysisfor War on the Rocks, with a resilient capacity forexpeditionary action. Its nuclear-energy strategy has granted it a degree of energy independence that contrasts...
On March 18, 1949, The Detroit News reported on a pact that would, less than a month later, lead to the creation of a new world order: the formation of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). The organization was formed in response to World War II as a mutual-defense alliance b...