NATO accepted nuclear downsizing without organizational resistance

Evidence

Finally, the willing downsizing of NATO’s nuclear infrastructure remains a puzzle. In the words of a key official in NATO’s nuclear directorate, nuclear weapons and the personnel once associated with them are almost a “nonissue, and that is just fine.” A key capability that developed into a substantial presence within the organization has been pushed to the background with hardly a fight—not what one would expect of an organization intent on protecting the status quo. — Robert B. McCalla, NATO’s persistence after the cold war, 100

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the reader’s framework on how organizations behave when a founding purpose erodes; NATO giving up nuclear infrastructure contrasts with status-quo-preserving institutional models like We’s ‘United State’ bureaucracy.