Today, we have an enlarged NATO with increasing (though still far from adequate) capabilities, a good plan for streamlining NATO's command structure, a new NATO four-star command focused specifically on military transformation and an affirmativeanswer once and for all to that old chestnut, can NATO take on a mission out of area.
If you ask anyone if they believe the government and our businesses should consider long-range thinking, again an affirmative would undoubtedly be the answer.