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| Content | STATEMENT OF GENBRAL JOSEPH W. RALSTON, U.S. AIR FORCE COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF UNITED STATES EUROPEAN COMMAND NATO ENLARGEMENT SBNATE ARMED SERVICES COMMITTEE February 28, 2002 The North Atlantic Treaty established an alliance that has endured over half a century. During its first forty years, NATO manifested the political will and military capability to deter Soviet expansionism, and that deterrence worked. It provided for the rearmament of Germany within a framework acceptable to her wartime foes. It solidly linked, through forward presence and nuclear deterrence, the United States to the security of Western Europe. The stable security environment, combined with the Marshall Plan, facilitated a rapid economic recovery and the subsequent growth of Western Europe into our largest trading partner. Meanwhile, the Soviet Union, its planned economy overtaken by the vibrant markets of the Alliance, crumbled and collapsed. Without a common foe, some commentators argued, NATO would lose its reason for existence, yet the member nations chose to continue their alliance, and to transform and adapt it to new circumstances. Massive, static conventional defenses were reduced and made more mobile. Numerous newly independent nations looked to NATO as a source of stability in an uncertain, New World order, and as a bastion of democratic experience. These countries were linked to NATO through the North Atlantic Cooperation Council, followed by the establishment of the Partnership for Peace program (PfP) and the Euro-Atlantic Partnership Council. The end of the Cold War bipolar order unleashed nationalist, ethnic, and religious tensions resulting in widespread outbreaks of violence. NATO s relevance in the face of these new threats was reaffirmed by its stabilization of ethnic conflict in the Balkans. The operational employment of NATO forces to solve a major European security problem in the Balkans, outside of NATO s perimeter, confirmed the enduring value of the Alliance. The inclusion of Partner nations in Balkan operations underscores the payoff of PfP, both in the reform of former communist militaries and in the relief of the manpower burden on NATO. An unexpected dimension of NATO s security guarantee, and its relevance to U.S. security, came to worldwide attention after September 11th. America s NATO allies agreed to invoke Article 5 of the North Atlantic Treaty, considering the attack on New York and Washington as an attack against them all. A dramatic manifestation of this support is the |
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