ticle 14 calls for the deposition of the official copies of the treaty in the U.S. Archives. In the early years of NATO, it was mainly the United States that served as a defense for the rebuilding countries of Europe. As the Soviets became more of a threat, the NATO countries united more and sort of became one military power all together. As the Cold War era was unfolding, it looked as if it would be NATO versus the Soviet Union for a long time.The one most important success that could be accredited to the treaty and the actions of the alliance is ending the cold war. With all the power that the NATO forces had along with the power that the soviets possessed, war seemed inevitable. The much-vaunted nuclear capability of NATO turns out, as a practical matter, to have been far less important to the eventual outcome than its conventional forces. But above all, it was NATOs soft power that bested its adversary(Mastny 1). This soft power is what surprised the Soviet Union and the other eastern countries. NATOs success at helping to bring the cold war to an end gave it more power as more and more countries in Europe, especially Eastern Europe, looked to be under the blanket of protection that the alliance could provide. As the Soviet Union was breaking up along with the unification of Germany, NATO was counted on to do more than just protect the security of the member nations. In Bosnia, NATO decided to take action to undermine the Serbian nationals led by Yugoslavian president Slobodan Milosovic. At first it looked like NATO could actually fail at its mission of bringing peace to this very delicate situation. NATO could yet abandon the victim Kosovars, at what might be terminal loss to alliance humanity and credibility. Or it could multiply the stakes by a potentially extremely risky and costly escalation(Rosenfeld 2). NATO kind of dove into the situation without a plan and it backfired at the beginning. The alliance dillydall...
