Rudy Giuliani has proposed expanding NATO to include India, Israel, Japan, Australia, and Singapore.(The Week)(Brief article)

Rudy Giuliani has proposed expanding NATO to include India, Israel, Japan, Australia, and Singapore. Australia, Singapore, and Japan would probably join, and be welcomed. But major European members of NATO are likely to resist Israeli membership, on the grounds that it would set them at odds with the Islamic world. Israel itself would probably balk at submitting national-security decisions to alliance consultation. And India might resist formal membership in the preeminent Western "club." The present NATO looks increasingly unreliable as a serious military contender. European NATO members spend little on defense, impose semi-pacifist rules of engagement on their soldiers, and devote scarce military resources ...