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NATO: Dangerous Dinosaur Hardcover – August 2, 2019
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Donald Trump's presidency has triggered a growing debate on both sides of the Atlantic about the future of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and U.S. policy regarding the alliance. In NATO: The Dangerous Dinosaur, Ted Galen Carpenter outlines how NATO in its current form has outlived its purpose, and burden sharing is only part of the problem. Continuing to expand NATO eastward, encroaching on Russia, will only endanger the alliance.
- Print length192 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherCato Institute
- Publication dateAugust 2, 2019
- Dimensions6 x 0.56 x 9 inches
- ISBN-101948647621
- ISBN-13978-1948647625
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- Reviewed in the United States on September 2, 2022Ted Galen Carpenter's book is likely very unpopular today among the foreign policy establishment as war rages in Eastern Europe - but it's insight into some of the factors that progressed that state affairs is invaluable, and worth a read for anyone who cares about how to prevent future conflicts.
- Reviewed in the United States on March 28, 2020Obviously, author lacks historical knowledge, education and expertise to write about topics he considers himself expert at. That’s why he promotes Hitler-Stalin type of world, where few criminal gangs divide world and kill people, like Hitler and Stalin did after Molotov-Ribbentrop pact that started WW2 and killed millions in fights and more than 6 million Jews in concentration camps. Carpenter writes (exact quote): “NATO is an institutional dinosaur, and as Washington foolishly labors to expand the alliance eastward, antagonizing Russia and adding mostly small and vulnerable allies that are strategic liabilities rather than assets, it is now a dangerous dinosaur”. This is exactly Putin’s rhetoric and ideology – the KGB criminal’s dream, who came from the evil world best described by the KGB insider Victor Sheymov in his “Tower of Secrets”. Basically, what Carpenter says, it’s somehow ok, if somebody abuses weak, defenseless, elderly; it’s not big deal if authoritarian regimes, like Putin’s one, exterminates whole nations like Estonians, Latvians, Lithuanians, Ukrainians, Georgians, etc.; as long as these are small and vulnerable, who cares if they completely disappear; it’s ok to betray friends and allies if they are not strong. Listen to what he says: “it’s foolish to protect vulnerable… it’s a liability”. HA??? But this is not what America is about! Americans are exact opposite of this: they help friends, allies, vulnerable, oppressed, persecuted! They are very good people! They don’t say – like Neville Chamberlain or this author – “we don’t care!”. They don’t say “it’s foolish to help a friend!”. U.S. was always standing and will stand with Israel, despite its smallness. NATO didn’t say: “Who cares, if all Bosnians are exterminated!” - it intervened and saved thousands of Bosnians from Milicevic’s and Mladic’s ethnic cleansings (although, it took time and criminal regime managed to kill more than 8,000 Bosniaks). I want to tell to the author: “Listen, big chance is that you also (and if not you, then your ancestor) came to America from a smaller and vulnerable nation. And, if decent people shared your and Putin’s views, and if not people like Americans, you wouldn’t be writing this book now!”
- Reviewed in the United States on January 18, 2020The North Atlantic Treaty (1949), and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization to which it gave rise, were the product of the Cold War. As Lord Hastings Ismay, NATO’s first secretary general famously said, NATO’s purpose was to keep the Soviets out [of Western Europe], the Germans down, and the Americans in.” However, the Cold War ended some three decades ago. While Russia remains a regional power, it is far less powerful than was the Soviet Union. Germany - notwithstanding the rise of the Alternative for Germany part - is a stable democracy. Far from fearing a resurgence of the kind of powerful and aggressive Germany that started two world wars, the concern about today’s Germany is that it does not do anywhere near enough to contribute to Europe’s defence. Using Ismay’s metric, two of the original justifications for NATO no longer are compelling. That leaves the third: keeping the Americans in. Ted Galen Carpenter’s NATO: The Dangerous Dinosaur makes a compelling case that the time has come - indeed, is long overdue - for the United States to re-evaluate its commitment to NATO. In 1951, NATO’s first Supreme Commander, Dwight D. Eisenhower said that if in ten years American troops were still in Europe, NATO would have been a failure. Similarly, both John Foster Dulles and George F. Kennan worried that the long term effect of NATO might be to weaken Western European unity, and its assumption of responsibility for its own defence. Eisenhower, Kennan, and Dulles all originally saw NATO as a short-term initiative to protect Western Europe while it got back on its feet after World War II. At which time, the Europeans would assume responsibility for their own defence. As the European Union demonstrates, Europe has made great strides toward unity (at least economically). At the same time, as Eisenhower, Dulles and Kennan feared, when it comes to acquiring the means to defend itself, Europe has fallen far short. Carpenter’s NATO: The Dangerous Dinosaur is a powerful argument that we need to break through the foreign policy establishment’s (“the Blob”) conventional wisdom, and rethink the trans-Atlantic security relationship. A lot more is at stake than Donald Trump’s fixation on burden sharing. The extension of NATO into the Baltic States could someday entrap the U.S. in a nuclear war with Russia. We forget at our peril that notwithstanding all the Atlanticist talk about NATO being an organization of like-minded democracies that share common values, at its core it is what it has always been: a military alliance the obligates the U.S. to go war if any of the European partners is attacked. It is long past time for Europe to become responsible for its own defence. Indeed, Europe’s security dependency on the United States poisons relations on both sides of the Atlantic. The U.S. relationship with Europe is important. And that relationship will be both healthier and more stable if it is a relationship between equals, rather than one between a hegemonic America and a subservient Europe. Ted Galen Carpenter thoughtful analysis should cause a searching re-examination about NATO. The time for that is long past due.
Christopher Layne
University Distinguished Professor of International Affairs
Texas A & M University
- Reviewed in the United States on March 14, 2024Ah yes, the old 'America is the Root of All Evil' nonsense. This is nothing more than a screed against America and a love letter to Putin's murderous Russia.
Save yourself the time and money on this right wing equivalent of flag burning America hating 'book'.
