Allies Growing Closer : RAND Corporation : 9781977406361 : 197740636X : 01 Jan 2000 : Some of the United States' most powerful and trustworthy allies are its European partners and Japan. This report presents the results of a RAND Corporation study examining how Japan, the North Atlantic treaty Organization (NATO), and three European states - the United Kingdom (UK), France, and Germany - are increasingly cooperating in the security domain in this age of growing strategic competition. Seeking to build on extensive work done by European and Japanese scholars to assess and understand developments in these relationships, the author utilized official documents and publications and an extensive program of field research in Tokyo, London, Paris, Brussels, and Berlin that included 56 interviews with officials, armed forces personnel, and subject-matter experts. The analysis focused on (1) defense and strategic dialogues, (2) defense exchanges, defense cooperation, and defense-related industria