Damon Wilson of the Atlantic Council says the new Strategic Concept will not likely do that convincing, "This is not going to be a paper that grips the European publics and seizes the imagination of the American people.
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After a year of discussions -- and sometimes debate -- the newStrategicConcept that we are embracing shows that NATO is fully united about the way forward and committing to addressing the full range of security challenges of this century.
The question: Is NATO going to have a newstrategicconcept, which brings to the surface a number of questions President Obama already spoke about -- NATO's expeditionary capabilities, never forgetting NATO's core function, the integrity of the NATO territory, NATO's relations with Russia.
And just to take one example, in that respect, at Lisbon, NATO agreed on a newstrategicconcept where different nations would develop different capabilities that could be brought to bear so that NATO is no longer an alliance built to simply repel a Soviet invasion but can meet new threats, whether they come from ballistic missiles or cyber attacks or terrorism.