NATO at Seventy: Between Yesterday and Tomorrow Jamie Shea
NATO at Seventy: Between Yesterday and Tomorrow Jamie Shea

Summary/Abstract: 2019 is a year rich for anniversaries, all of which having lessons for the age in which we now live. In June we mark the 75th anniversary of the D Day landings on the beaches of Normandy. It recalls the horrors of classic warfare between what we today would call peer to peer competitors. In the first month following D Day more soldiers died than in all the wars fought by the western powers since 9/11. On average 27.000 people died every day during the Second World War which makes the casualties of the NATO countries in Afghanistan and Iraq during the last 15 years seem relatively modest by comparison. D Day was certainly a useful reminder not to stumble into another “total war” between super-armed major powers ever again.

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