A New Shield Over Europe -- Ivo Daalder, New York Times
BRUSSELS — Last month, NATO leaders held a successful summit in Chicago at which they charted the future course of the alliance in Afghanistan, bolstered NATO’s partnerships with nations across the globe and made a commitment to ensure that the alliance will have the capabilities to meet the security challenges of today and tomorrow.
The alliance made many critical decisions in Chicago; one of the most important was the declaration of an interim NATO ballistic missile-defense capability — the first concrete step to defending NATO European territory, its population and forces against the growing threat of ballistic missile attack. Today, NATO has the ability to defend parts of southern Europe against a limited attack, a capability that will gradually expand so that all of NATO Europe will be protected by the end of this decade.
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My Comment: What was unthinkable a decade ago is going to be a reality within ten years .... by the end of this decade NATO will have an operational system that offers protection to all NATO countries from a ballistic missile attack (i.e. from countries like Iran).
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