All of this is part of the transatlantic community’s continuing transformation from a set of organizations designed to defend territory against a known aggressor to something more flexible and dynamic. Establishing joint management and overhauling conventional defense capacities will be a two-pronged challenge: functional, owing to the traditional schema of defense organizations, and political, inasmuch as a cession of state sovereignty will be required.
所有这一切都是跨大西洋国家集团持续转型过程的其中一部分：由一系列专为防御某个已知入侵者设计的组织，转向应对某些更加灵活机动的威胁。建立联合管理机制和削减常规防卫力量将成为两大长期挑战：在功能上颠覆了传统防卫组织以国家为组成元素的构成机制；而在政治上则必须对某些国家主权做出让渡。