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      "id": 100729,
      "date": "2001-05-22",
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      "title": "NATO's Defense Capabilities Initiative",
      "summary": "With the end of the Cold War, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) began to reassess\nits\ncollective defense strategy and to anticipate possible missions the alliance might undertake. The\nconflicts in the Balkans pointed up the need for more mobile forces, for technological equality\nbetween the United States and its allies, and for interoperability. At the 1999 NATO summit in\nWashington D.C., the alliance launched the Defense Capabilities Initiative (DCI), an effort intended\nto better enable NATO to deploy troops quickly to crisis regions, to supply and protect those forces,\nto provide them with appropriate communications, and to equip them to engage an adversary\neffectively-all with greater compatibility. To meet the DCI's goals, however, most allied countries\nwill need to increase their individual defense budgets, a step many have been reluctant to take. In\naddition, many policymakers are concerned over possible conflicts between DCI and the European\nUnion plan to field an all-European force.",
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