Born from necessity, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)
has always seemed on the verge of collapse. Even now, some seventy
years after its inception, some consider its foundation uncertain
and its structure weak. At this moment of incipient strategic
crisis, Timothy A. Sayle offers a sweeping history of the most
critical alliance in the post-World War II era. In Enduring
Alliance, Sayle recounts how the western European powers, along
with the United States and Canada, developed a treaty to prevent
encroachments by the Soviet Union and to serve as a first defense
in any future military conflict. As the growing and unruly
hodgepodge of countries, councils, commands, and committees
inflated NATO during the Cold War, Sayle shows that the work of
executive leaders, high-level diplomats, and institutional
functionaries within NATO kept the alliance alive and strong in the
face of changing administrations, various crises, and the flux of
geopolitical maneuverings. Resilience and flexibility have been the
true hallmarks of NATO. As Enduring Alliance deftly shows, the
history of NATO is organized around the balance of power,
preponderant military forces, and plans for nuclear war. But it is
also the history riven by generational change, the introduction of
new approaches to conceiving international affairs, and the
difficulty of diplomacy for democracies. As NATO celebrates its
seventieth anniversary, the alliance once again faces challenges to
its very existence even as it maintains its place firmly at the
center of western hemisphere and global affairs.
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