“If the Alliance is to have available the essential capabilities it needs – such as reconnaissance and surveillance assets, or strategic lift aircraft – then it is clear that many individual nations will be hard-pressed to provide them on their own.”
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“Currently, too many key operational capabilities have to be provided by the United States – as we saw during our Libya operation in 2011, and as France saw during its Mali operation this year. This over-reliance on American assets – surveillance drones, aerial refueling tankers, heavy transport planes, electronic warfare capabilities – is unsustainable in the long term, especially as the U.S. rebalances to Asia and grapples with fiscal challenges of its own.”
Address by Ambassador Alexander Vershbow NATO Deputy Secretary General at the 30th International Workshop on Global Security, Hôtel national des invalides – Paris, France, 24 June 2013
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