Nato, Cavo Dragone: 'On military production rates Europe lags behind'

On the pace of military production in Europe 'we are lagging behind, partly because of the industrial fragmentation that exists due to a misunderstood sense of industrial sovereignty that is slowing down this type of process'. This was admitted by Admiral Giuseppe Cavo Dragone, chairman of the NATO Military Committee, guest on Tuesday 26 May on 'Five Minutes' on Raiuno.

"We look at Ukraine, which has a very flexible industrial structure, very responsive and above all extremely adherent to the operational needs in the field," Admiral Cavo Dragone explained. "Ukrainian engineers and software experts are on the front line with the soldiers," he added.

As for the role that Trump's US could play in NATO, Cavo Dragone clarified: "I would not call it a disengagement, but a fairer distribution, a fairer balance that we needed: there will be a greater taking of responsibility by the European allies, this is something that is already underway. "It is a need that, for example, the US administration has expressed not only for the European allies but also for the partners in the Indo-Pacific."

For NATO to enter the Strait of Hormuz, the admiral clarified, there are "three points that are indispensable for the international community". "The freedom of navigation in the strait", "the fact that Iran should not possess the nuclear weapon and a missile arsenal that could be a threat to the Gulf area, and then all those activities in support of terrorism that it has foraged over time". "Nato has no role at present to intervene in the Strait of Hormuz," concluded the chairman of the Atlantic alliance's Military Committee. "There is a Coalition of the Willing, of allied nations that are preparing and planning, when conditions are right, to ensure navigation in the Strait of Hormuz according to international rules and to clear the Strait of Hormuz of mines."