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This paper examines whether or not the NATO Alliance needs to revise its 1999 Strategic Concept. The paper argues that post-9/11 realities require the Alliance to update its leading document and make it more strategy-oriented. The author contends that the new concept should reflect four contextual changes in how NATO approaches collective defense - formalized NATO-EU cooperation, a European-level approach to defense force structures, adequately funded alliance transformation, and a modification of the NATO decision-making processes - as well as several adjustments to actual Alliance strategy.