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It may be harder to be optimistic, but if there is one aspect of this article that fits the series theme, it's this: the doomsayers will keep saying “doom”. Twenty years later, we live in a very different world. But it represents a specific and important perspective on NATO at the time, and that is the ultimate purpose of this series. Some elements of this article - including its sheer hopefulness - are difficult to read, knowing what we know now. When this piece was published, NATO was embarking on a new and optimistic partnership with Russia via the NATO-Russia Council - a positive relationship built on a “common cause in peacetime”. This article provides a valuable counterpoint. If you've been reading this series of republished articles chronologically, you may have noticed a main theme in all of the previous entries: that things were not so different, “way back when”. In the following years, NATO continued to welcome new member countries, helping further coordinate the Alliance's counter-terrorism efforts and building the resilience of their societies. In the following weeks, the Alliance launched its first ever anti-terrorism operation, pushing itself to increase its capabilities and technologies to meet the global threat of terrorism head-on. The day after the 9/11 terrorist attacks against the United States, NATO invoked Article 5 for the first and only time in its history. The Warsaw Pact had been relegated to the ash heap of history, and, according to them, NATO was about to go the same way.īut on 11 September 2001, a new threat shattered the Alliance's hard-won peace.
Doomsayers were – as always – foretelling the imminent disintegration of the Alliance. Without the ever-present threat of Soviet invasion, Allies were rapidly demobilising their forces – eager to spend the 'peace dividend' on social programmes for their citizens at home, rather than on armed forces stationed abroad. He oversaw one of the most turbulent periods in NATO’s history. This article, written by former NATO Secretary General Lord Robertson at the end of his tenure in 2003, reflects on his four years at the helm. It also highlights the rock-solid foundation of NATO that hasn’t changed: the transatlantic bond at the heart of the Organization the unity of the Alliance despite our differences and our solemn vow to defend each other against any threat. Looking back on 70 years of discussion and analysis in NATO Review gives us the opportunity to reflect on how our political and military Alliance has evolved across the decades.
To commemorate this long legacy, over the course of 2022 we will be re-publishing a selection of NATO Review articles from throughout the history of the magazine. Over the past seven decades, NATO Review has been offering expert opinion and analysis on a wide range of Euro-Atlantic security issues in articles that have sometimes been reflective, sometimes predictive, but always at the front line of debate.
In 2022, we celebrate 70 years of NATO Review (formerly NATO Letter).
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