The prime minister's strengths were his usual ones: agoodcommand of detail and a flair for creating dividing lines with Mr Cameron, especially on public spending.
Today, we have an enlarged NATO with increasing (though still far from adequate) capabilities, agood plan for streamlining NATO's command structure, a new NATO four-star command focused specifically on military transformation and an affirmative answer once and for all to that old chestnut, can NATO take on a mission out of area.