PROJECTING STABILITY
NATO Strategic Direction South Hub — Brigadier General Roberto Angius, Italian Army, NSD-S HUB Director
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or nearly 70 years, the most successful alliance in history has developed strategies and relationships to deter mass war and ensure collective defence. As NATO continues to adapt the way it deters a resurgent Russia, new challenges and unconventional threats continue to arise
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from NATO’s South. A combination of political instability, lack of economic opportunity, rapid population growth, environmental degradation, radicalisation
and criminal activity in many of the countries to its South has created an environment that poses a real threat to NATO members. Terrorism and migration, in unprecedented numbers, are having a real impact on European countries and are a major concern to Europeans and their political leadership. The NATO Strategic Direction South Hub (aka ‘the Hub’) is the Alliance’s response to the changing security environment in the South.
Better informed The Hub’s remit is to make NATO better informed about the multiple security challenges emanating from the South, so
Romanian Army Colonel Florin Liuta; Brigadier General Roberto Angius, Italian Army, NSD-S HUB Director; General Curtis M Scaparrotti, Supreme Allied Commander Europe (SACEUR); and Admiral James Foggo, Allied Joint Force Command Naples Commander (PHOTO: NATO)