European Security in the Post-Soviet Age: the case against Nato Graham Hallett 'Western Europe, and increasingly Eastern Europe, remains largely an American protectorate, with its allied states reminiscent of ancient vassals and tributaries' Zbibniew Brzezinski, former US National Security Adviser, in The Grand Chessboard, 1997 This wide-ranging book examines how Britain has become one of these vassals, and the principal European participant in Nato's wars. It reviews the creation of Nato, Europe's failure to examine its security needs after the collapse of the Soviet Union, and the way the USA changed Nato from a defensive to an aggressive organisation. The case for using Nato to expand the American Empire (in Brzezinski's words) throughout Eurasia - as decided in the early 1990s -is assessed in the light of the outcomes of the USA's wars since 1945 and Nato's wars in Croatia, Kosovo, Afghanistan and Iraq. The mass population expulsions, anarchy and gangsterism brought about by Nato's wars are examined. A broader survey of twenty-seven allegedly humanitarian wars concludes that they were usually disastrous. A detailed account of the Yugoslav conflicts concludes that, on Bosnia, Anglo-French objectives were more realistic than American, and were eventually adopted, and that the Kosovo air war had more to do with setting a precedent for Nato's 'new strategic doctrine'; and establishing a major US air base in an oil-strategic region than with averting a humanitarian disaster. A review of 'the just war' advocates a more 'Consequentialist' philosophy. There is an examination of the way intelligence has been falsified and war reporting distorted. The 'war on terror'; is shown to be a catastrophic blunder, based on delusions and lies. By using war to eliminate terrorism, the USA and Britain have ensured that the war will be prolonged indefinitely and that they cannot win it. The book is both a historical assessment of America's and Nato's wars, including suppressed evidence, and a dissident analysis of British defence policy at a time of rising international tension. The author is a retired Lecturer and a former Research Fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. William Sessions Ltd., York. 3O2pp. £8.99 ISBN 978-1085072-358-5