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Does NATO Have an Arms-Control Brain?
Rather than forever circling the wagons, NATO needs to develop its own ideas so that it can respond credibly to its adversaries’ proposals and restore its leadership role.
As the alliance’s leaders gather this week, they must recognize that reviving the arms-control agenda is the key to members’ collective defense.
- Adam Thomson
- Project Syndicate
LONDON – Under Donald Trump, NATO was lucky just to stay alive. Indeed, in 2019, French President Emmanuel Macron warned that the alliance was becoming “brain-dead.”
With NATO leaders holding their first in-person meeting with US President Joe Biden this week, America’s allies are breathing a…