NATO at 100

摘要

THE TRANSATLANTIC alliance deserves a resounding "happy birthday". It kept the peace for 40 years of cold war, protected western Europe from communism, helped stabilise central Europe after the Soviet Union's collapse and enabled unprecedented prosperity. It has shown admirable openness, adaptability and commitment. "We're incredibly complacent about the continuous delivery of peace and stability in our lives, and a hell of a lot of that depends on NATO," says Sir Adam Thomson, a former British ambassador to NATO, now with the European Leadership Network, a London-based think-tank. "We tend to take it for granted."