NATO In Crisis Claimed To Be An Illusion

Chatham House:

A comparison of NATO's experience in the Balkans and in the Afghan theatre suggests that the view of a NATO perched permanently at the edge of collapse is problematic and misleading. This is not to defend alliance actions as such but rather to suggest that the narrative of crisis and collapse makes for poor analysis and underestimates NATO's proclivity for adaptation and endurance.

FLG never underestimates an irrelevant bureaucracy's ability to find new justifications for its continued existence.