At the Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing regarding North Atlantic Treaty Organization Security, General James Jones Jr., Supreme Allied Commander Europe, discusses the difficulty of maintaining unity within NATO.
Gen. Jones explains that the 26 countries allied through NATO must agree on any mission and the rules of engagement, and that as the alliance gets bigger the problem gets bigger. (0:33)
February 7, 2006
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