Big changes are coming to America’s relationship with Europe. This was the subtext of remarks by Secretary of State Marco Rubio and other top Trump administration officials during the recent Munich Security Conference. Change is never easy, but the shift proposed by Rubio and others is long past due, both for the United States and its European allies.

NATO is the most successful military alliance of the modern era. But the world is very different from when NATO was launched in 1949. And like any successful relationship, NATO will have to adapt to a new era. 

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The changes that the Trump administration is proposing will put both the U.S. and its European allies on a more secure footing, ensuring that NATO not only endures, but that it thrives. It’s a worthy ambition.

When Americans think of “elsewhere,” the famed novelist Henry James wrote more than a century ago, they think of Europe. Indeed, in many respects, America is Europe’s offshoot. The U.S. came of age when Europe housed the preeminent powers of the world.

In his rightly lauded speech at Munich, Rubio noted that the fates of the country and continent are “intertwined.” The U.S. fought alongside its European allies in two world wars, and they worked together to stave off Soviet........

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