NATO's noble words go for naught
"NATO officials are working on list of about 150 areas where NATO armed forces could strengthen their joint efforts," argued Clara Marina O'Donnell, a security analyst at the CER in London in a recently published paper. "The goal is to present about a dozen concrete suggestions at next May's NATO summit in Chicago. ...Governments across Europe have been introducing new and often large cuts to their defence budgets," Ms O’Donnell argued.