Subject: Re: Is NATO figuring it out?
Nope.

We'll agree to disagree here. I'll merely quote this as a reply, from Carl von Clausewitz in On War: If the aim of the military action is an equivalent for the political object, that action will in general diminish as the political object diminishes, and in a greater degree the more the political object dominates. Thus it is explained how, without any contradiction in itself, there may be Wars of all degrees of importance and energy, from a War of extermination down to the mere use of an army of observation.