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(15.) Philip H. Gordon, "NATO after 11 September," Survival, Winter 2001, pp. 92-3.

(16.) Michael E. O'Hanlon, "A Flawed Masterpiece," Foreign Affairs, May/June 2002, pp. 48-50. For details of allied and coalition military contributions to operations in Afghanistan, see the USCENTCOM Website at http://www.centcom.mil/Operations/joint.htm.

(17.) For an argument for waging war against Iraq, see Richard L. Russell, "War and the Iraq Dilemma: Facing Harsh Realities," Parameters, Autumn 2002, pp. 46-61.

(18.) Thorn Shanker, "Rumsfeld Asks NATO to Shift to Wide Fight against Terror," New York Times, 19 December 2001, pp. B1, B4.

(19.) For an argument for a limited Nato membership, see Richard L. Russell, "American Security Policy and NATO's Future," European Security, Spring 1999, pp. 16-24.

The author is professor, Near East-South Asia Center for Strategic Studies, the National Defense University. and associate, Institute for the Study of Diplomacy, Georgetown University. He is the author of George F. Kennan's Strategic Thought: The Making of an American Political Realist (1999).

The author would like to thank Kristin Archick for comments and Richard Tuong Do for research assistance in preparation of this article.

The views expressed are those of the author and do not represent those of the U.S. government, the Department of Defense, or the National Defense University.