After NATO — the way forward

After NATO — the way forward

In The World Crisis, his personal account of World War I, Winston Churchill noted that ‘the moral consequence of the United States joining the Allies was indeed the deciding cause in the conflict… [Without America] the war would have ended in a peace by negotiation, or, in other words, a German victory.’ Such a statement chimes in with Churchill’s public pronouncements of an Anglo-American ‘special relationship’ borne out of the realisation that…