A Very Useful Tool for the United Nations.

The article focuses on the role of North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) as a United Nations (U.N.)-affiliated military alliance. Topics include the formation of the organization with the goal of preventing Soviet military from invading western Europe, NATO's role shift into military interventionism where it functions as a military arm of the U.N., and the possibility of NATO forming regional security alliance in East Asia focusing on territorial conflicts between China and Taiwan.