Thursday, June 17, 2021

Attacks In Space Will Invoke NATO's Article 5 Clause (Update)

Leaders pose during a family picture at the NATO headquarters where the 30-nation alliance hopes to reaffirm its unity and discuss increasingly tense relations with China and Russia, as the organization pulls its troops out after 18 years in Afghanistan, Monday June, 14, 2021. (Jacques Witt, Pool via AP) 

The Hill: NATO expanding defense clause to attacks in space 

A top NATO official on Monday said the alliance will expand its defense clause to include attacks in space, ahead of a scheduled summit between member state leaders. 

NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, the coalition’s top civilian official, announced the group’s intention to expand Article 5, which says any attack on one of the alliance’s 30 allies will be considered an attack on them all.

“I think it is important [with] our Article 5, which states that an attack on one will be regarded as an attack on all, that we all will respond,” Stoltenberg said at a German Marshall Fund think tank event, according to The Associated Press.  

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More News On Reports That NATO's Article 5 Clause Will Be Invoked If There Are Attacks In Space  

NATO says attack in space could trigger mutual defense clause -- AP  

Attacks in space are grounds for military retaliation, NATO summit communique to say -- Reuters  

Space attacks could trigger Article 5: NATO -- Army Technology  

NATO Expands Charter To Include Space Attacks -- Daily Caller

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Blog post is a joke, right?

When has the Un stopped a war.

The UN did not stop Korea. The heavies were on both sides of the conflict.

The UN is better than the League of Nations, because were are more modern or we say so.

I always fall for the "more modern" argument myself.

Dave Goldstein said...

Nato has always been a paper tiger. Without the US the rest are close to useless