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Key NATO Commander Agrees With Trump, NATO Is Obsolete

• http://news.antiwar.com, by Jason Ditz

With most of the political leadership in other NATO member nations lash US President-elect Donald Trump for calling the alliance "obsolete," he doesn't appear to be alone, with top NATO commander Gen. Denis Mercier saying he agrees that there are parts of NATO which are absolutely obsolete.

Gen. Mercier is France's Air Force Chief of Staff as well as NATO's Supreme Allied Commander Transformation, and says he believes NATO is far too focused on deploying troops abroad, and sending expeditionary forces into various countries, singling out Afghanistan in particular.

Mercier argued that NATO should revamp its anti-terror efforts to focus on helping countries develop their own long-term plans for counter-terrorism operations instead of just deploying NATO troops around the world.


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