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If a text were the required preamble to our review of changing roles in NATO today, it would be the words of the late Alastair Buchan from his book, The End of the Postwar Era, published by Weidenfeld and Nicolson in 1974, in which he warned that ‘NATO had come to display all the characteristics of ossification that affect any organisation — national or international, which is not regularly overhauled by strong leadership’.
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Wilkinson, J., Chichester, C.M. (1984). Changing Roles in the Alliance. In: The Future of the Atlantic Alliance. RUSI Defence Studies Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-07541-6_13
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