The Future of NATO: a New Organization for New Threats?(A More Perfect Union) (North Atlantic Treaty Organization‪)‬

NATO's future is intimately connected to both its past and present. It has, after all, survived half a century of extraordinary change in very good order. It spectacularly proved its enduring relevance on September 12, 2001, when Article 5, the collective defense clause designed to save Europe from the Soviet Union, was invoked to help the United States from the new and evil scourge of mass terror. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED]