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NATO Secretary General Calls For Military Capability To Back Diplomacy

By Cal Biesecker

Tuesday, May 7th, 2013

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NATO Secretary General Calls For Military Capability To Back Diplomacy

NATO’s Secretary General said yesterday that Europe must invest in security or become sidelined, lacking the power and clout to influence events. “If European nations do not make a firm commitment to invest in security and defense, then all talk about a strengthened European defense and security policy will just be hot air,” Anders Fogh Rasmussen said at the joint meeting of the European Parliament’s Committee on Foreign Affairs and subcommittee on Security and Defense. “And it won’t bring us…

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