‘NATO should focus on fixing Europe’

"NATO will be more important in the next 75 years than it has been in the last 75," NATO's former supreme allied commander Europe (2013-2016) General Philip Breedlove tells Kathimerini. With the US elections in the spotlight and leaders of Western and Eastern countries waiting for the new occupant of the White House, many analysts are warning about the direction Washington should take in its foreign policy. The veteran four-star general and distinguished professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology explains to Kathimerini that NATO needs to examine its weaknesses and rebuild its manufacturing sector to be ready to meet the multifaceted challenges that will arise.

General Breedlove, with two fronts active on NATO's borders, in Ukraine and Israel, many criticize the true dynamics of the North Atlantic Alliance. Do you agree with the view that NATO has been weakened...