What exactly is the purpose of NATO in the year 2026?

What exactly is the purpose of NATO in the year 2026?


One month into Operation Epic Fury against the Islamic Republic of Iran, a long-overdue conversation has finally broken into the open: What, exactly, is the enduring rationale for NATO? If so, why have its members sat on the sidelines and refused to join the United States as it goes to battle against the world’s No. If NATO cannot meet that test – if it continues to function as a lopsided arrangement in which the United States pays, protects and sacrifices while others equivocate and obstruct – then it is not only reasonable but necessary to question its future and America’s role in that future.

Author: Josh Hammer


Published at: 2026-04-03 22:03:21

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