NATO Turns 75 – Past Achievements and Close Future Challenges

NATO is about to turn 75 years old. It will pass the milestone in a global security environment as distressed now as it was when the West’s main defense alliance began in 1949. The North Atlantic Treaty Organization started out in the rubble of World War II, with the Soviet Union looking ready to swallow Europe’s shattered and weary countries. Ten of them—alongside the United States and Canada—joined the alliance by signing the treaty in Washington on 4 April. Its next summit will be held where NATO began, but it will have far more attendees as the alliance has dramatically…