Other Decisions Taken at NATO Summit
The participants of the NATO summit endorsed a new Industrial Capacity Expansion Pledge. The pledge aims to accelerate defence industrial capacity and production across the NATO members.
It was also decided to establish a centre to wage cyber warfare. NATO says its "Integrated Cyber Defence Centre (NICC) will enhance the protection of NATO and Allied networks and the use of cyberspace as an operational domain. The Centre will inform NATO military commanders on possible threats and vulnerabilities in cyberspace, including privately-owned civilian critical infrastructures necessary to support military activities."
The summit was informed that "A new U.S. ballistic missile defence site in Redzikowo, Poland is now operational and available for the defence of the Alliance. Dubbed 'Aegis Ashore,' the site is part of a larger NATO missile shield and is designed to detect, track and intercept ballistic missiles in flight. [...] Key elements of NATO's missile shield include the two U.S. Aegis Ashore sites in Poland and Romania along with U.S. navy destroyers out of Rota, Spain, and an early-warning radar in Kurecik, Türkiye. Aegis Ashore is purely defensive. About 200 military personnel are stationed at the two interceptor sites in Poland and Romania. The site in Deveselu, Romania, has been operational since 2016."
NATO and Jordan announced the decision to open a NATO Liaison Office in Amman. NATO said that the office will "bring NATO and Jordan closer, by enhancing political dialogue and practical cooperation in areas of common interest between the Alliance and Jordan."
A new NATO Policy on Women, Peace and Security was adopted, carrying on attempts by NATO to militarize life and present women's affirmation of their rights and dignity as synonymous with NATO warmongering. NATO says its policy "provides a political framework for NATO to further promote the Women, Peace and Security (WPS) agenda across all of the Alliance's core tasks."
NATO released a revised artificial intelligence (AI) strategy, which aims to accelerate the use of AI technologies within NATO, claiming that it can do so "in a safe and responsible way" to divert from the profound threat that NATO poses to human life.
NATO also discussed the use of "space-based assets" to carry out its aggression and war preparations. It says its "Alliance Persistence Surveillance from Space program intends to establish a 'virtual constellation' comprising both government and commercial space assets. A group of NATO countries are set to begin implementing a new project aimed at improving the alliance's ability to quickly share intelligence gathered by space-based assets operated by both member nations and the commercial sector. [...] Seventeen NATO members (including the U.S. Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Romania, Sweden and Turkey) signed a memorandum of understanding for the Alliance Persistence Surveillance from Space (APSS) program." NATO said member countries will contribute more than $1 billion "to leverage commercial and national space assets, and to expand advanced exploitation capacities."
This article was published in
Volume 54
Number 42 - July 22, 2024
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