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The Forgotten Dimension? NATO and the Security of the Member States

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Pursuing Strategy

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In October 2008, The Telegraph ‘revealed’ that NATO’s Supreme Commander, General John Craddock, had asked for the authority to draw up contingency defence plans for former Soviet bloc NATO allies in Central and Eastern Europe (McElroy, 2008). Why was not that already done? The Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland had then been members for almost ten years, and Bulgaria, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Rumania for almost five. Had NATO ‘forgotten’ its most central task — to guarantee all the member states territorial integrity — after the Cold War? Had a whole dimension of the Alliance’s strategic and operational mission been lost in all the ‘out-of-area’ operations that had been conducted in the Balkans, in Africa and in Asia? The purpose of this chapter is to scrutinise that issue.

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  1. Department of Peace and Conflict Research, Uppsala University, Sweden

    Håkan Edström (Research Fellow) & Dennis Gyllensporre (Research Fellow) (Research Fellow) &  (Research Fellow)

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Petersson, M. (2012). The Forgotten Dimension? NATO and the Security of the Member States. In: Edström, H., Gyllensporre, D. (eds) Pursuing Strategy. New Security Challenges Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230364196_6

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