The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), once the unchanging Western security bulwark opposite an omnipresent existential Soviet threat, has remade itself in the 21st century. The alliance has become the transatlantic partnership’s army, and the keystone (if not the entirety) of European security. It is reasonable to assume that the authors of Article V of the NATO charter, the alliance’s agreement to go to war together if a member is attacked or the security situation in the Atlantic was significantly threatened, never would have imagined its first use to come following the September 11th 2001 terrorist attacks against the United States.
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