NATO and the South Atlantic: A Case-Study in the Complexities of Out-of-area Operations

Abstract

For much of the post-war period the South Atlantic figured only marginally on the list of western security interests outside the NATO area. Yet since the early 1970s interest in the region has been growing for a variety of reasons: anxiety within NATO over the increased Soviet naval presence; the possible threat that that presence poses to western sea communication and, in particular, the Cape Route; continuing political instability and uncertainty in southern Africa and the countries that border the South Atlantic; increased awareness of the importance of deep-sea mineral resources; concern over the future of Antarctica.

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