Politics
Wednesday, 6/24, 05:35 AM
What is NATO, and what does Article 5 actually mean?
- More than seven decades after a dozen nations signed a mutual-defense pact in Washington, NATO has grown to 32 members and remains anchored by a single, often-misunderstood promise: that an attack on one is an attack on all.
- Here is how the alliance works, and what its collective-defense clause does and does not require.