No easy fixes for NATO

To paraphrase Shakespeare: Alas poor NATO. We knew it well.

My second column for 2013 bemoaned the absence of even the mention of NATO in the strategic dialogue that accompanied the start of U.S. President Barack Obama's second term.

Founded in Washington in April 1949 as a counterweight to the emergence of a hostile Soviet Union, NATO became the most successful military alliance in history.

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