On Tuesday 9 July, the Allies celebrated NATO’s 75th anniversary in the same room where the organization’s founding treaty, the Washington Treaty, was signed in April 1949 by twelve states and created the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.
An Alliance created to “preserve peace and safeguard freedom”, said its Secretary General, Jens Stoltenberg, describing NATO as “the most successful alliance in history”. It is “the single, greatest, most effective defensive alliance in...