NATO in US Grand Strategy
In: The spokesman: incorporating END papers and the peace register, Heft 111
ISSN: 0262-7922, 1367-7748
The European members of NATO add relatively little to the military power of the United States. Their contribution above all is political. Their presence maintains the illusion of an 'International Community'. The world conquest being pursued by the bureaucratic inertia of the Pentagon can be presented as the crusade by the world's 'democracy' to spread their enlightened political order to the rest of a recalcitrant world. A crucial question is whether 'Western democracy' still has the strength to dismantle this war machine before it is too late. Adapted from the source document.