Get ‘Smart’: Paving the Way to a More Efficient Alliance

摘要: NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen's concept of Smart Defense, defined as "ensuring greater security, for less money, by working together with more flexibility," will be a hot topic at the Summit in Chicago. The has stressed that to successfully maintain its strength amid shrinking defense budgets and economic austerity, "must prioritize... must specialize... seek multinational solutions." European Union, much membership overlapping NATO, endeavored accomplish similar task through pooling sharing, but concerns over sovereignty have severely limited progress.