After Chicago Summit, a Weaker NATO Emerges

In announcing its decision to officially end combat operations in Afghanistan by the end of 2014, NATO has all but admitted that it is exhausted after a decade of war in that rugged, inhospitable nation. Departing without a clear-cut victory to its credit and with difficult budgetary challenges to confront at home, the alliance is now weaker than it once was and this trend is likely to continue, as LIGNET explains.

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