movements in the or the defense alliance as borders to suspicious activity worldwide, the abilene, rob bower, chairs, the nato military committee, he acts as a link between the political world and the military. the alliance is there enough for 75 years and we went from 12 to not almost 32 members. so that in itself, i would say is the proof that this alliance adds value otherwise. so many nations would not have joined when it was founded after world war 2, nato consisted of 12 countries. its goal during the cold war was to contain communism and prevent the soviet union and the eastern block from expanding their influence. over time, 20 more countries have joints, nato, including former eastern bloc states. today, the alliance stretches from the arctic ocean in the north, to turkeys border with syria in the southeast, and from the baltic states on russia's border across the atlantic to the us and canada. it is the world's largest defense alliance, providing security for 1000000000 people. and yet nato itself has no troops of its own. the way it is constructed is that the nato is basically 3 t