French President Emmanuel Macron initiated a furi-ous international political debate when he stated in 2019 that NATO is becoming brain-dead.1 Scholars and practitioners on both sides of the Atlantic quickly, and rightly, pushed back by noting that the North Atlantic Alliance is, and will remain for the foreseeable fu-ture, the most important international military organization in modern human history. Indeed, the Alliance has prov-en remarkably resilient and has transformed itself and its mission set to match an evolving strategic environment, despite decades worth of pronouncements that NATO is in crisis or on the verge of irrelevance. Further, the inter-national political landscape has changed in profound ways since 2019, particularly as a result of the COVID-19 pan-demic. It is tempting, therefore, to conclude that Macron’s remark is but one of many premature announcements of NATO’s death.
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