The general also called for NATO nations to strengthen their ability to defend the alliance's home territory, in order to ease concerns among some new members in Eastern Europe in the wake of Russia's invasion of Georgia last year.
VOA: standard.2009.03.24
The idea of embedding the growing powers of Asia, Russia, and the Middle East inthe kind of new liberal order favored by people like Fareed Zakaria is, for Kagan, a hopeless dream.