NATO's Role in Power Projection

security of this country. Reason number one.

Reason number two,

uh, because NATO, its allies, is one big

platform of power projection. Matt was already mentioning this.

Five thousand planes taking off from European bases in support of

Epic Fury since twenty-eight of February this year.

Five thousand, and that was counting till

mid-April. In the meantime, probably it's much more,

but this the numbers I have

from the Ankara Summit, five thousand sorties. Crucial.

Uh, you could argue it would have been

impossible, uh, to do Epic Fury without

having Europe as a power projection platform for the United States.

Finally