NATO considers ‘more aggressive’ response to Russia’s hybrid threats
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NATO’s top military commander, Admiral Giuseppe Cavo Dragone, announced that member states are considering adopting a more aggressive and proactive approach to counter Russia’s hybrid threat campaign, including potential preemptive cyber or sabotage operations within defensive doctrine. The Baltic Sentry mission, aimed at deterring Russian-linked sabotage at sea, has been effective since its launch. Dragone acknowledged that NATO faces greater ethical, legal, and jurisdictional constraints compared to Russia. Russia condemned these considerations as escalation, while NATO officials cited ongoing Russian cyberattacks, information operations, and sabotage incidents, including damages to undersea data cables and drones entering Polish territory, which has raised regional security concerns.
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Tensions between NATO and Russia sharpened Monday after the alliance’s top military commander said member states are considering whether they must become "more aggressive" in confronting Moscow’s hybrid threat campaign.Admiral Giuseppe Cavo Dragone, chairman of NATO’s military committee, told the Financial Times the alliance is evaluating if it should be "proactive instead of reactive," including the possibility of "preemptive" cyber or sabotage operations.Dragone said such actions could still fall under defensive doctrine, saying, "It is further away from our normal way of thinking or behavior."GERMANY WARNS RUSSIA COULD ATTACK NATO BY 2029 AS INTELLIGENCE THREAT ASSESSMENTS MOUNTDragone pointed to the Baltic Sentry mission, launched this year to counter Russian-linked sabotage at sea, saying that "from the beginning of Baltic Sentry, nothing has happened. So this means that this deterrence is working."He added: "Being more aggressive compared with the aggressivity of our counterpart could be an option, but Dragone also admitted that NATO and its members had much more limits than our counterpart because of ethics, because of law, because of jurisdiction. It is an issue. I don’t wa...
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Posted on 12-03-2025 16:23