{"id":59254,"date":"2019-12-02T13:45:59","date_gmt":"2019-12-02T13:45:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/armytimes\/uncategorized\/2019\/12\/02\/nato-under-friendly-fire-as-leaders-ready-for-london-summit\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T10:19:28","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T10:19:28","slug":"nato-under-friendly-fire-as-leaders-ready-for-london-summit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/armytimes\/flashpoints\/2019\/12\/02\/nato-under-friendly-fire-as-leaders-ready-for-london-summit\/","title":{"rendered":"NATO under friendly fire as leaders ready for London summit"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">BRUSSELS \u2014 NATO leaders will gather in London on Tuesday as the world\u2019s biggest military alliance, marking its 70th birthday, battles with one of the most confounding of adversaries: Itself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As thousands of troops stand ready along Europe\u2019s eastern flank to deter Russia \u2014 the reason the trans-Atlantic alliance was founded in 1949 \u2014 or help keep the peace in places like Afghanistan and Kosovo, the leaders of countries with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/flashpoints\/2019\/11\/06\/russias-ability-to-hold-and-capture-territory-in-europe-threatens-us-and-nato-forces\/\" target=_blank>NATO<\/a>\u2019s largest armies are wildly taking pot shots at each other.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Before the two-day summit, to include receptions at Buckingham Palace and Downing Street plus a working session at a golf resort in outer London, Karen Donfried, president of the German Marshall Fund think tank, said the 29 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/news\/pentagon-congress\/2019\/11\/27\/natos-aging-eye-in-the-sky-to-get-a-last-overhaul\/\" target=\"_blank\">NATO<\/a> allies are approaching this meeting \u201cwith a sense of foreboding.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cFew anticipate a gathering that will both unify and stop the growing cracks in cohesion. Alliance leaders carry the responsibility to articulate NATO\u2019s common purpose and ongoing relevance. If they do not, Vladimir Putin will be raising a glass in Moscow to the fraught state of the alliance at 70,\u201d she said, in reference to Russia\u2019s president.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In recent months, U.S. President Donald Trump has declared that peace is nigh in Afghanistan \u2014 NATO\u2019s longest and most costly operation in terms of lives and cash \u2014 only to call off talks with the Taliban. Now, it seems, they are on again. All the while, U.S. troop numbers are declining. Other allies are unsure what to make of it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Last month, he precipitously pulled troops out of northern Syria. Turkey took that as a green light to launch an invasion that has alarmed its European NATO partners, many already struggling with the political fallout sparked by the arrival of tens of thousands of Syrian refugees via Turkey in 2015.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">French President Emmanuel Macron, complaining of a U.S. leadership vacuum and sensing an opportunity for France to fill it and boost Europe\u2019s security credentials, has lamented the \u201cbrain death\u201d of NATO and says the allies need \u201ca wake-up call.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Macron wants strategic talks about where NATO is going, who its adversaries really are, how to tackle terrorism, what to do about an unpredictable ally like Turkey, and how to improve relations with Russia, rather than a spend a third summit in self-flagellation about Trump\u2019s favorite topic: military spending.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the latest act of political friendly-fire, Turkey accused Macron of supporting terrorism for agreeing to hold talks with a Syrian Kurd politician whom Ankara considers to be part of an extremist group.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cYou should get checked whether you\u2019re brain-dead,\u201d Erdogan said Friday, in remarks directed at Macron. \u201cKicking Turkey out of NATO or not, how is that up to you? Do you have the authority to make such a decision?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Meanwhile, Erdogan plans to test a new air defense system, purchased from Russia, that its partners refuse to allow near any NATO military equipment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">German Chancellor Angela Merkel, in the final period of her reign, has played the go-between, trying to keep the NATO leadership train on the rails.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">From the outside, and quite possibly from the Kremlin, it looks like a great act of self-harm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">NATO has no real wars to fight but its power, and Europe\u2019s security, lies in the abilities of the allies to deter adversaries like Russia and potential ones such as China. That deterrence depends on a balanced mix of military posturing and shows of political resolve by speaking with one voice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Since Russia annexed Ukraine\u2019s Crimean Peninsula in 2014, NATO has deployed more than 4,000 troops to Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Poland to discourage further military adventurism by Putin. The allies also ended their post-Cold War budget cuts and stepped up defense spending.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But it is the very public infighting among alliance heavyweights that undermines NATO\u2019s security efforts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe leaders have a responsibility for not undermining deterrence,\u201d said Tomas Valasek, senior fellow at the Carnegie Europe think-tank.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cDeterrence is not just about having bombs, bullets, missiles, airplanes or these days cyber geeks you can deploy against the adversary. Deterrence is also about communicating that we mean it when we say we\u2019re an alliance of 29 and we are ready to respond as 29 when something bad happens,\u201d Valasek said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cOur adversaries are constantly looking for chinks in our armor. For cracks or signs of division. God knows there have been plenty of those,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On its 70th birthday, NATO\u2019s summit declaration \u2014 should it survive the hail of friendly fire \u2014 will focus on the future; issues like new disarmament talks, the alliance\u2019s role in space, and its policy toward China. 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