Only a few months following the long review process which led to
NATO: Lessons From Libya
Lord Ismay, the first Secretary General of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), once declared that the purpose of the Alliance was to ‘keep the Russians out, the Americans in, and the Germans down’. More than sixty years after NATO’s creation, the ongoing crisis in Libya has shed light onto the current and future key challenges that the Alliance faces, and calls for a comprehensive reassessment of the Alliance’s missions and mechanisms.
