Abstract
The Military Committee (MC) is the highest ranking military authority in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). In many ways, it represents the essence of NATO as a military alliance of democratic states: It is a consensus-based committee of all member states’ chiefs of defence.1 While representativeness and consensus are sources of legitimacy and thus strength, the overall significance of the MC in NATO has varied over time. As Douglas L. Bland observed in his seminal study of the MC: ‘The Military Committee has experienced periods of relative great influence on NATO strategy, while at other times it has almost been irrelevant to the outcome of alliance policies’ (Bland 1991: 23).
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