"All of Vlad's forces and all of Vlad's men, are out to put Humpty together again." (5 Viewers)

Warspite63 said:

I don't think (and I could be wrong....) that the NATO charter would require NATO members to automatically become participants is the defence of AK, due to its location (i.e., outside the North Atlantic theatre). This was the reason that NATO was not required to assist the UK in the Falklands war. That said, I might be wrong

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Admiral Beez said:

I expect Thatcher could have declared Article 5. Certainly now that, since 1983 the Falklanders are full British citizens rather than their former overseas territorials, an attack on Stanley is akin to bombing Piccadilly I would expect Britain to consider Article 5. NATO aside, I remember as a young expat living in Canada in 1982 thinking why isn't Canada, Australia or NZ coming to Britain's aid. The RCN's four Sea Sparrow-armed Iroquois class destroyers (our last class of such) would have been useful. We now know that both the Commonwealth and NATO helped Britain from the sidelines, for example both Canada and Australia deployed their navies to cover British commitments elsewhere, so to free up RN ships for the task force, and the US opened up stores of modern AAMs and supplied intel to the British (when Maggie called Reagan, Galtieri was toast), while the French blocked further Exocets and tech to the Argies.

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• on the territory of any of the Parties in Europe or North America, on the Algerian Departments of France, on the territory of Turkey or on the Islands under the jurisdiction of any of the Parties in the North Atlantic area north of the Tropic of Cancer;
• on the forces, vessels, or aircraft of any of the Parties, when in or over these territories or any other area in Europe in which occupation forces of any of the Parties were stationed on the date when the Treaty entered into force or the Mediterranean Sea or the North Atlantic area north of the Tropic of Cancer."

Denniss said:

a larger part of the middle east seems to be at high alert and closing its airspaces due to a reported massive iranian drone launch towards iranian targets. That's in addition to a pirate action capturing a container vessel.
The friends of russia are really asking for retaliation strikes.

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ThomasP said:

US Intel reports US assets (naval?) have engaged Iranian ballistic missiles launched from Iran. All Iranian ballistic missiles known to be launched from Iran as of 10:20 PM GMT have been neutralized.

Source for the above is usually accurate.

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Denniss said:

I bet the Israelians will set up a retaliation strike. Some good targets would be iranian drone/rocket manufacturing sites, maybe (dangerous) uran enrichment sites.

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