This article indicates how there has been a shift in US hegemony as a consequence of the Kosovo campaign. As I recall Henry predicting, NATO will never be the same again. Chris Burford By Wesley K. Clark supreme allied commander in Europe during the Kosovo campaign. Friday , December 8, 2000 A year ago, when leaders of the European Union announced the goal of fielding a 60,000-strong European force, it seemed to some a possible answer to years of transatlantic squabbling about "burden-sharing." Now, as the Europeans finish a year of organizing and designing the procedures for this force, we're hearing warnings about the risk it poses to NATO. <snip> In consequence, we are now arguing about how to plan and organize for future crises in which the Europeans will send their forces--but we won't participate. At best, the Europeans will remove the deputy commander, planners and key staff from the NATO chain of command headed by the American supreme allied commander, Europe, in order to plan and head missions by a purely European rapid reaction force. But do we want a potentially split NATO headquarters? With an American commander whose authority will always be subject to question, will the United States continue to participate? At worst, the Europeans will create a new headquarters with additional planners and staff that will simply be redundant and competitive to those within NATO. These are the two bad alternatives at the center of the dispute.
