Seventy-two years after its inception, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) is the most successful military alliance. We could end the discussion there, but among NATO’s 30 member states, there are deep divisions, proverbial elephants in the room, and persistent concerns that it is unprepared to match re-emerging and new peer competitors, not to mention internal consternations about dreaded national “caveats” whenever missions are planned. Despite NATO’s myriad problems, however, the authors maintain that it is “salvageable and worth keeping” (1).

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书评：北约出了什么问题以及如何解决

北大西洋公约组织（NATO）成立七十二年后，是最成功的军事联盟。我们可以就此结束讨论，但在北约的 30 个成员国中，存在着深刻的分歧，房间里有众所周知的大象，并且一直担心它没有准备好与重新出现的和新的同行竞争者匹敌，更不用说内部对可怕的国家的恐慌了。计划任务时的“警告”。然而，尽管北约存在无数问题，但作者坚持认为它“可以挽救并值得保留”(1)。