NATO unity threatened by defense budget and equipment shortfalls | World | Deutsche Welle | 03.03.2010

NATO unity threatened by defense budget and equipment shortfalls World Deutsche Welle 03.03.2010: "US Defense Secretary Robert Gates accused European countries of failing to provide enough weapons and equipment to NATO's missions in Afghanistan and around the world last week, saying that there had been too much demilitarization since the end of the Cold War and that Europe's contribution to underfunded defense budgets is undermining NATO's shared security goals."

An even greater problem for NATO must be the asymmetry of risk to soldiers lives.