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There was a big article on the WP or NYT or CNN a while back that says Hawaii is definitely not covered. From memory the reason was that Hawaii was not part of the US when NATO was formed PLUS it is in the Pacific.
 
There was a big article on the WP or NYT or CNN a while back that says Hawaii is definitely not covered. From memory the reason was that Hawaii was not part of the US when NATO was formed PLUS it is in the Pacific.
That is from the Tropic of Cancer being decided on as the dividing line and is why it was.
 
It would be helpful if everyone read Art 6 which I posted in post# 29563 on page 1479 if full and not just bits of it.


Article 6

"For the purpose of Article 5, an armed attack on one or more of the Parties is deemed to include an armed attack:

  • 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;
Note it is Islands in the North Atlantic. No mention of thePacific. So no, an attack on Hawaii would not commit NATO members to coming to the assistance of the USA under Article 5. Add to that Hawaii is not in North America.

So unless there is a commitment under one of the other Treaties.....
 

The clue is in NATO's name...NORTH ATLANTIC Treaty Organization.

That said, while Afghanistan is north of the Tropic of Cancer, it hardly counts as anywhere near the Atlantic...so one wonders why NATO was even involved there (that's a rhetorical question...we all know why).
 
One point that's being missed in the comparison between Hawai'i and the Falklands is that the people in Hawai'i have a right to reside in the Continental US; the Falklanders did not have the right to reside in the UK.

I'm not sure there is a US possession with a comparable status to the Falklands.
 

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