The Change Mariner

Pentagon gives backing to big Nato shake-up

Financial Times:

The Pentagon will on Thursday throw its weight behind a radical shake-up of Nato's command structures that would make the military alliance more flexible as it prepares to take on new missions in Afghanistan and Iraq.

Despite last-minute haggling by some of the 19 members who fear the biggest command restructuring in Nato's 54-year-old history will lead to base closures and job losses, Donald Rumsfeld, US defence secretary, said "a new military structure is clearly necessary".