{
  "id": 13351,
  "url": "https://warontherocks.com/chaotic-progress-european-natos-quest-for-stronger-defense",
  "title": "Chaotic Progress: European NATO’s Quest for Stronger Defense",
  "summary": "In 2024, Max Bergmann wrote, “NATO Missed a Chance to Transform Itself,” where he argued NATO’s leadership needs to facilitate a strong European pillar of the alliance through structural reforms in European institutions. Two years later, we asked Max to revisit his arguments.Image: The White House via Wikimedia CommonsIn 2024, you argued NATO’s own leadership should facilitate a European pillar. Two years later, NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte told the European Parliament that anyone who think",
  "authors": "Max Bergmann",
  "category": "news",
  "topics": "military-security",
  "orgs": null,
  "regions": "us,eu",
  "published_at": "2026-07-23T20:00:19.000Z",
  "fetched_at": "2026-07-25T05:10:48.796Z",
  "source_slug": "x-war-on-the-rocks",
  "source_name": "War on the Rocks",
  "source_homepage": "https://warontherocks.com",
  "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/13351",
  "original_url": "https://warontherocks.com/chaotic-progress-european-natos-quest-for-stronger-defense",
  "evidence_status": "source-only",
  "attribution": "via ethics.ai"
}