Collective defence
Journal: Edward Elgar Publishing eBooks
Year: 2023

Collective defence is back at centre stage for NATO, largely given Russia’s 2014 illegal annexation of Crimea, which prompted NATO to fundamentally reassess how to provide security to its member states. Since then, the Alliance has had to relearn lost skills, refill the ranks and reinvest in materiel necessary for territorial defence in a way that it has not since the late 1980s. Russia’s full-fledged Ukraine invasion of early 2022 further accelerated this trend. This chapter puts NATO’s return