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Nato must rediscover its purpose, or it will end up losing a war

European countries seem to think of their defence alliance as a means of getting security on the cheap. That won't work any longer

6 September 2014

9:00 AM

6 September 2014

9:00 AM

This week’s Nato summit was originally intended to look back on lessons learned from Afghanistan and reflect on the notion that (as Barack Obama put it) a ‘decade of war is now ending’. How naively optimistic that seems now.

In the past week a second American journalist has been beheaded in Iraq and the Sunni insurgents who call themselves Islamic State say that a British hostage will be next.

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