Commentary: Adam Schiff: At 70, NATO remains a crucial alliance. So why does Trump keep attacking it?
by Adam Schiff, Los Angeles Times
Apr 02, 2019
3 minutes
Seventy years ago this month, President Harry Truman led the United States and 11 other nations in establishing the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, a defensive alliance to protect Western Europe against Soviet aggression. Since 1949, NATO has grown to include 29 member countries, becoming the world's largest peacetime military alliance - and history's most successful, preserving peace in Europe and deterring conflict. For decades, support for NATO has been among the most bipartisan of issues, a unifying force at home and abroad.
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