NATO At Sixty: Digital Defences

As NATO celebrates its sixtieth anniversary, it is worth considering to what extent the 26-member alliance has evolved since its founding. While ostensibly convened to defend Western Europe against a full scale Soviet military invasion or nuclear attack, the underlying mission of the world’s premier military alliance has changed dramatically since the end of the Cold War. Now operating ‘out of area’ in Afghanistan, it has also had to confront the difficulties of operating in a totally different borderless realm.