NATO leaders warm to US flexibility

Report of informal NATO Defence Ministers meeting, Brussels, 26 September 2001 and bilateral contacts between US defence officials and their European counterparts in the light of the terrorist attack in the USA, 11 September 2001. The Americans avoided a request for NATO-wide military action. Some argued that NATO should take a bigger role in counter-terrorist measures

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