> It is and probably always will be totally ineffective as an offensive alliance. History has shown otherwise. Every single of NATO’s mission has been on the o

> It is and probably always will be totally ineffective as an offensive alliance. History has shown otherwise. Every single of NATO’s mission has been on the offensive. Be it enforcing a no-fly zone in Libya (which requires suspiciously many areal bombing), naval missions to protect selected cargo vessels from pirates in the Gulf of Aden or intimidating training missions in Iraq. Even Afghanistan was an offensive mission (with a defensive excuse). NATO’s offensive operations outnumber defensive missions 6 to 0.