UMA NOVA NATO?

«(...)These [NATO] plans are perhaps an attempt to shift the Alliance’s military planning from one that is capability-based (a concept that tries to have a smattering of every military capability available), including some new ones), to one that is threat-based (a concept that looks specifically at competitors and builds/develops capabilities designed to counteract any weaknesses and build on opportunities for advantage).

Currently, NATO is driven by the equipment states have determined they need (or wish to retain), and will make available to NATO. The new concept would prioritise and presumably encourage states to change their priorities in favour of those the Alliance determines as important. What is difficult to imagine is how SACEUR will reconcile the ability to generate these forces with national prioritisation and deployment of forces by individual states: this is a fundamental dilemma that will need to be overcome if the concepts are to be useful.(...)?»

 

Peter Roberts

@https://rusi.org/people/roberts-0 

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« (...) [T]he prime minister’s 16 June announcement is that it is designed to appease these aid sceptics. If this interpretation were to gain ground, it is likely to be used by Keir Starmer, the opposition leader, to argue that, just as Labour moves back to the mainstream on foreign policy, this government is shifting decidedly away from it. Such an interpretation is still premature.»

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