Recasting NATO's strategic concept
Subtitle: possible directions for the United States
By: Christopher S. Chivvis.
Contributors: United States. Air Force.; Project Air Force (U.S.); Rand Corporation.
Series: Occasional paper -- OP-280-AF; Occasional paper (Rand Corporation) -- OP-280-AF.
Publisher: RAND
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Santa Monica, CA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 36
ISBN-13: 9780833048738
Subjects: North Atlantic Treaty Organization; Strategy; Security, International; International cooperation; Military planning; United States -- Military policy; United States -- Foreign relations -- 2009-
Other titles: Possible directions for the United States
Description: "To address its security challenges, the United States needs the active support of its allies. This means, in particular, ensuring that the states of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) remain able and willing to make a contribution to resolving their common security problems wherever possible. The revision of NATO's strategic concept offers an excellent opportunity to further this aim. It is a chance to build consensus about the future and thereby steer the alliance in a direction that will help keep it relevant. This paper examines five possible directions--refocus on Europe, new focus on the greater Middle East, focus on fragile states, focus on nonstate threats, and a global alliance of liberal democracies--the alliance might adopt, assessing them against certain key political and military criteria. It offers those involved in the rewrite both a range of potential options and a preliminary assessment of the feasibility and potential implications of each. The purpose is to encourage debate around the major, concrete problems that member states face."--RAND web site.
Notes: "Prepared for the United States Air Force."

"RAND Project Air Force."

Includes bibliographical references (p. 33-36).

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Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Direction 1: Refocus on Europe; title: Direction 2: A new focus on the greater Middle East; title: Direction 3: A focus on fragile states; title: Direction 4: A focus on nonstate threats; title: Direction 5: A global alliance of liberal democracies; title: Conclusions.