How NATO expansion happened in the '90s
NATO expansion in the '90s. U.S. Defense Secretary Les Aspin asked in 1993: "How do you deal with the question of membership?" Ultimately, the Clinton administration's answer to that question may have had more to do with domestic politics than international alliances.
Following the collapse of the Soviet Union, a new question about NATO expansion.
“A membership in NATO is a very delicate subject. Because we don’t want to end up drawing lines across Europe just at
