Former senior NATO official Stephanie Babst said NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg does not have a long-term strategy for the organisation. These release reports Times With reference to Babst’s book Sehenden Auges, scheduled for release in May.
In it, he argues that alongside Stoltenberg, British Air Chief Marshal Stuart Peach, who chaired the NATO Military Committee from 2018 to 2021, had little interest in research projects in the field of strategic global planning.
According to Babst, French President Emmanuel Macron’s statements about NATO’s “brain death” in 2019 were justified.
The former employee of the alliance emphasizes that NATO leadership devotes a lot of time to secondary issues and that the actual results of the bloc’s work are “often very scanty”. He believes the North Atlantic Alliance is characterized by a “short-sightedness”, which as a result compels the organization to respond urgently to emerging challenges rather than anticipating potential threats.
formerly known as Stoltenberg declarationThe foreign ministers of the North Atlantic Alliance member states agreed to begin developing a strategic multi-year program to support Ukraine.