{"id":11296,"date":"2018-07-26T13:25:06","date_gmt":"2018-07-26T20:25:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/?p=11296"},"modified":"2018-07-26T13:25:06","modified_gmt":"2018-07-26T20:25:06","slug":"reforming-nato-is-the-only-way-to-save-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/reforming-nato-is-the-only-way-to-save-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Reforming NATO Is the Only Way to Save It"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ American Greatness<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"wpsdcp-drop-cap-default\">D<\/span>onald Trump recently ignited yet another firestorm by hedging when asked whether protecting the newest NATO member, tiny Montenegro, might be worth risking a war.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, the keystone of NATO was always the idea that all members, strong and weak, are in theory equal. A military attack against one member, under Article V of the NATO charter, meant an attack on all members.<\/p>\n<p>Such mutual defense is the essence of collective deterrence. An aggressor backs off when he realizes his intended target has lots of powerful friends willing to defend it.<\/p>\n<p>But what happens when an alliance becomes so large and so diverse that not all of its members still share similar traditions, values, agendas or national security threats?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/amgreatness.com\/2018\/07\/26\/reforming-nato-is-the-only-way-to-save-it\/\">Read the full article here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ American Greatness Donald Trump recently ignited yet another firestorm by hedging when asked whether protecting the newest NATO member, tiny Montenegro, might be worth risking a war. Of course, the keystone of NATO was always the idea that all members, strong and weak, are in theory equal. A military attack against [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1161,1160,1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p466Sb-2Wc","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":9257,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/is-nato-worth-preserving\/","url_meta":{"origin":11296,"position":0},"title":"Is NATO worth preserving?","author":"victorhanson","date":"April 25, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ Tribune Media Services Donald Trump recently ignited another controversy when he mused that the North Atlantic Treaty Organization was obsolete. He hinted that it might no longer be worth the huge American investment.In typical Trump style, he hit a nerve, but he then offered few details\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Trump&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Trump","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/ahref=\/index.php\/categories\/angry-reader\/categorylink\/a\/trump\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":11303,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/07-30-18-angry-reader\/","url_meta":{"origin":11296,"position":1},"title":"07-30-18 Angry Reader","author":"victorhanson","date":"July 30, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"From An Angry Reader: Subject: NATO Maybe it\u2019s my old age but you seem to be contradicting yourself. You explain quite correctly how useless it is and then suggest that you think strengthen it is a good idea??? 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