NATO is confronting significant internal divisions on how to handle the intensifying wave of Russian cyberattacks, which expose rifts in alliance strategy and threaten the alliance’s coherence and overall deterrence posture.
As Russia increasingly targets NATO states’ critical infrastructure, governmental functions, and even military networks, debate has raged within the alliance as to how forcefully to respond, and under what terms, to hostile state-sponsored cyber activities.
Deepening divisions
A core challenge for NATO is divergent national approaches to what constitutes an act of cyber aggression warranting collective response. Some member states—particularly those along Russia’s borders in the Baltics, as well as Poland—are calling for robust measures, including invoking Article 4 (consultative action in response to threats), and even considering proportional offensive cyber operations against Russian state targets.
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