Is nato still relevant cracks appear as the Worlds Largest military alliance but its 70th birthday and the Member States south of the differences and what could happen if they dont this is inside story. And welcome to the program. The worlds biggest military alliance is facing a crisis the United States canada and 10 european nations formed nato at the end of the 2nd world war to confront what they saw as riots from the soviet union now the biggest threats appear to be internal nato now boasts 29. 00 members and they are in london to mark the organizations birthday but recently the United States turkey and france have raised concerns about military spending and nato as well in general our diplomatic editor james bass explains for the next couple of days this is the man in the hot seat secretary general yens stoltenberg has the un enviable task of chairing a meeting of nato leaders at a time the alliance faces big challenges this gathering in london is supposed to mark nato 70th birthda
Madrid. As representatives from over 200. 00 countries gathered for a cop 25. 00 genius for special coverage on aljazeera. Is nato still relevant cracks appear as the Worlds Largest military alliance but its 70th birthday and the Member States settle the differences and what could happen if they dont this is inside story. And welcome to the program. The worlds biggest military alliance is facing a crisis the United States cant other than 10 european nations formed nato at the end of the 2nd world war to confront what they saw as riots from the soviet union now the biggest appear to be internal nato now boasts 29. 00 members and they are in london to mark the organizations birthday but recently the United States turkey and france have raised concerns about military spending and nato as well in general our diplomatic editor james bass explains for the next couple of days this is the man in the hot seat secretary general u. N. Stoltenberg has the un enviable task of chairing a meeting of
Is nato still relevant cracks appear as the Worlds Largest military alliance but its 70th birthday and the Member States settle that differences and what could happen if they dont this is inside story. And welcome to the program. The worlds biggest military alliance is facing a crisis the United States cant other than 10 european nations formed nato at the end of the 2nd world war to confront what they saw as riots from the soviet union now the biggest appear to be internal nato now boasts 29. 00 members and they are in london to mark the organizations birthday but recently the United States turkey and france have raised concerns about military spending and natures bow in general are diplomatic editor james bass explains for the next couple of days this is the man in the hot seat secretary general yens stoltenberg has the un enviable task of chairing a meeting of nato leaders at a time the alliance faces big challenges this gathering in london is supposed to mark nato 70th birthday its
Cavoli, the Deputy Director at the Atlantic Councils center for strategy and security. And Lieutenant General commander of land command. And our panel will be led and moderated by patrick tucker, defense ones Technology Editor. Thank you all. [ applause ] thank you all so much for joining us today. Im Technology Editor at defense one. Im pleased to have this Exceptional Panel here to discuss the future of the United States army in the european theater and ive been covering different aspects of Army Activity in europe for quite some time and its a question, and ill go to you, and i wonder if you can talk to me a little bit about the current status and your feelings about the militarytomilitary relationship with turkey. How is that right now and how quickly is that changing . I maintain strong relations with my counterparts in turkey on within the parameters of u. S. Policy at any given time. We spend time going back and forth and visiting each other. We exchange United States. We had th
Invite our to distant risk an moderator to take a seat. While they assembled, the tenant general christopher the commanding general of the u. S. Army europe. The Deputy Director for the Transatlantic Security Initiative at the atlantic ,ouncil center for strategic strategy and security and Lieutenant General thompson landnder of nato allied command. Our panel will be moderated by defense ones technology editor. Thank you all. [applause] all right. All so much for joining us today and im pact talker. To discuss the future of the United States army an incredible important european theater and i have been covering Different Army activity in europe for some time. And there is one question that it is usually sort of a perfunctory question, rarely is there an opportunity for news in it. This year that is not the case. I will go to you, j. P. As well as you, chris. I wonder if you can talk a little bit about the current status and your feelings about the military to military relationship with