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July 12, 2011
"NATO on the brink"
Op-Ed, The Hill
By Nicholas Burns, Professor of the Practice of Diplomacy and International Politics, Harvard Kennedy School, William Cohen and George Robertson
Then-Secretary of Defense Robert Gates traveled to Brussels in June, where he warned European allies of the “dwindling … patience in the U.S. Congress” with NATO and declared that if allies did not get serious about meeting their NATO responsibilities they could soon find that American leaders “may not consider the return on America’s investment in NATO worth the cost.”
