knew or cared where Europe was." It was only after a considerable period of dragging it's feet that America finally sided with Britain, a fellow NATO member. Even then American help was marginal and not by any means a deciding factor in the conflict. The US had to supply sidewinders at the time, or else it would have undermined Britains procurement policy with regard to US Equipment and would have meant a reluctance to place future orders for US Missiles and Equipment. There are Geographical limits to the NATO treaty - it doesnt deal with attacks worldwide - only in the North Atlantic Region(we are in Afghanistan because the 9/11 attack occured in that region). An excerpt from Article 5 of the NATO charter: "The Parties agree that an armed attack against one or more of them in Europe or North America shall be considered an attack against them all " There was some help forthcoming from NATO countries -mainly intelligence although we did get access to AIM 9-L missiles from NATO stocks which helped massively in the air war. It's outside of their terms of reference. If the UK was attacked, Nato would automatically come to our defence. If we have a bust up over one of our colonies, that's our problem. Anyway, it's our job as trusted slaves to join in when America has a colonial war - not the other way around. Bamford 1 - as well as all the help outlined in your post, you leave