NATO opens a center for the safety of submarine infrastructures

The military point 482 | In the last year, the alarm in the West has grown, reaching its peak with the sabotage of the Nord Stream. The threat evolves, the strategists explain: it changes, it adapts. The threat is the one on the bottom of the sea. For this reason, NATO has approved the creation of a center to guarantee the safety of submarine infrastructures. The new base in Northwood, England, and be part of the Alliance system with an extended competence:

Atlantic, North Sea, Baltic, Mediterranean and the extreme tip, the Black Sea. The apparatus having to watch over communication cables, pipelines, energy networks, an immense network that develops under the sea surface for thousands of kilometres. The triple mission: coordination of defense, patrols, interventions in the event of an emergency with soldiers capable of operating at various altitudes.

From frogmen to divers, specialties for which the Atlantic countries - including Italy - have high-level departments, the synthesis where the human factor is linked to the technology of the means available.