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There would appear to be much wrong with the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. To its detractors, NATO (or ‘the Alliance’) has been written off as ‘irrelevant’.¹ During the 2016 presidential campaign, Donald Trump called it ‘obsolete’.² French President Emanuel Macron has suggested NATO is ‘experiencing […] brain death’.³ Hence, so the argument runs, if NATO did not exist, no one in Europe or North America would any longer want to create it.⁴ In this book, we outline the problems that beset the Alliance, but also put forward ways of addressing them. To declare our position up front: NATO, we argue, is salvageable and worth keeping. This book is structured around identifying what its problems are and then showing how they can be treated. Before doing so, however, it is worth outlining some of the broader issues which condition NATO’s state of affairs.