Zivadin Jovanovic November 3rd, 2010. 
Belgrade Forum for a World of Equals

In the eve of the NATO Lisbon summit there is a need to recall that eleven years ago Serbia (FRY) was a testing ground and first victim of so called new concept of NATO strategy which is to be formally endorse in Lisbon this November (19/20). 
It is expected that the leaders of NATO members will, among other things, authorize themselves to undertake military actions beyond the area of their own territories, in fact, all over the globe. Their actions do not have to be of defensive but offensive whenever they consider this to be in their interest. NATO will not seek authorization of the UN Security Council for the use of military force. It imposes itself above UN, OSCE and all other international bodies. Division of burden and tasks with European Union will be the pillar of the new NATO strategic concept. 
All this and much more, was evidently tested in Serbia (FRY) in 1999. 
During 72 days of continuous military aggression NATO left thousands of dead, two thirds civilians, economy completely destroyed, environment polluted by depleted uranium missiles, hundreds of thousands of displaced. Even today, some of the buildings in the heart of Belgrade remain in ruins while over 200.000 of Serbs from Kosovo and Metohija cannot return to their homes. 
NATO countries supported unilateral illegal secession of Kosovo and Metohija from Serbia (February 2008), then they led the process of recognition of illegal creature of theirs. 
In the 90-ties many NATO countries had been financing, training and arming terrorist KLA. In return, KLA was their ground force in the time of aggression. Today NATO is arming, training and financing illegal Army of ilegal Kosovo and Metohija composed of elements of former terrorist KLA. USA, Britain, Germany and Turkey are leading participants in this process. 
No wonder that Kosovo and Metohija  is perceived by some as NATO-state, by others as a narco-state. In any case, military base “Bondstil” in Kosovo remains the largest USA base in Europe (some claim in the world). The Province, with about 9.000 KFOR (NATO) tropes continues to be recruiting ground for drag mafia and transit route of heroin from Afghanistan to Central and Northern Europe. 
The last weekend “representatives” of Albanians from Serbia, FYROM (Macedonia), Greece and Montenegro gathered in Tirana from where they formally proclaim their common objective – to establish Greater Albania. All Albanians in one state! 
Thus, NATO aggression on Serbia in 1999, NATO strategy in general, led to raise of secessions, legitimization of interventions, undermining of the role of UN and international law. NATO made Balkan region of lasting instability. Is this the role of NATO that Europe and the world want to see in the future?

Focal points of the new NATO strategy 

to be considered and adopted at the NATO summit in Lisbon, 19-21 November 2010. 

1. NATO insists on nuclear weapons as absolute necessity for the politics of deterrence. Nuclear weapons are to be continuously deployed and modernized, the British Trident Fleet Ballistic Missiles as well as the American strategic nuclear weapons. All plans concerning the withdrawal of nuclear weapons from Europe and the abandonment of nuclear sharing are cancelled.

2. The essence of the new NATO doctrine is the takeover of US plans concerning an American missile defense as a central NATO project. Europe is to be protected by an antiballistic missile defense shield. This is said to be the only way to realize the concept of deterrence and security in the 21st century.

3. The war in Afghanistan is seen as the topical challenge of NATO and shall be continued with reinforced efforts of civil-military cross-linkages until the war is won.

4. All member states are asked to intensify their defense mechanisms and to render them more effective.

5. Although NATO does not perceive itself to police the world, it does understand itself as an interventional force if its member states’ “interests” (worldwide, but particularly within the European-Asian area) are endangered. These interests explicitly include the protection of the member states’ “natural resources” and trade routes.

6. Another aim is the Eastern expansion of NATO – yet not as distinctly phrased as in previous official documents. The Eastern expansion shall include new partnership alliances with the former Southern Soviet republics as well as Indonesia and Malaysia, and also Australia and New Zealand. Japan is to be integrated in an innovative partnership.

7. According to the new strategy paper, EU-Europe is seen as partner and second pillar of NATO with a military alliance of its own, with which a “burden sharing”, a division of tasks and duties, is envisaged. This involves a significant revaluation of the EU military and defense policy as laid down in the Lisbon Treaty.

8. The need to reinforce electronical warfare is emphasized, regarding both NATO’s own action and recruitment realm and the scope of response to attacks directed at computers, communications- and power networks. The so-called “cyber war” usually includes the depletion of democratic civil rights and a further militarization of research (as regards security related topics).

9. Furthermore, the strategy paper highlights the “new” role of NATO, which shall manifest itself inter alia in the fight against global warming and other global challenges. The “security” against the consequences of climate change (migration flows) is to be ensured militarily.

10. All these challenges are classified as part of the “war against terrorism”. This war is among other things exploited for the feigned legitimation of global interventional operations of NATO.