The Atlantic Alliance provides greater commitment to protect its allies in the Mediterranean

The Atlantic Alliance is prepared to consider new war scenarios, even unconventional, which could invest the allied countries of southern Europe: Italy, Spain and Portugal. The discriminant is given the geographical proximity areas of great instability present in North Africa, on the southern shore of the Mediterranean and their immediate hinterland. In these areas there are wide areas escaped to a control of their sovereign states, and for a lack of opportunity to exercise their sovereignty, even in the military sense, and the absence of state structures which ensure the control, as is the case Libya, split into two opposing governments and where there is a large area that escapes the jurisdiction of both the executive. This situation has led to the creation of independent militias, often ingrained a deep affiliation Islamic religious extremism, as to be often more structured as organizations affiliated to Al Qaeda and the Islamic state. The activities of these paramilitary forces evolved from trafficking in persons, arms, drugs and oil, through which they finance up to attacks and military actions against full-blown government institutions or facilities of national interest, such as the sensational killings Tunisia against the Bardo Museum and the tourist village. In addition to these cases, which have international significance, there were intensified and increasingly violent actions against civilian structures, which are intended to create a climate of terror in the population. Only Egypt, with the exception of Sinai, can be said to be the shelter of these actions, but only because it was established a military dictatorship, which is violently suppressing any dissent, even peaceful. The fear of the command of NATO is that, sooner or later, this Islamic terrorism in North Africa, try the leap exporting to European countries immediately contiguous terrorist attacks. With respect to Ukraine, another face of tremendous burden for the Atlantic Alliance, the risk of a conflict appear less likely, but the situation is marked by greater unpredictability. In fact, while in Eastern Europe the military confrontation would be against a clearly defined enemy, the Mediterranean, the situation is more fluid and less delineated, therefore, more subtle. The deployment to the Atlantic Alliance intends to bring in the Mediterranean is a solution mixed with conventional weapons and the use of electronic surveillance, implemented through the use of drones, to protect against emergencies traditional military or asymmetric warfare. Especially the monitoring will be the primary degree of prevention from attack by a force able to mobilize over a span of time content its military. The significance of this initiative is not only to prepare an adequate military response quickly, but to be able to test test the defense system and to send a message to potential adversaries, whether the Islamic state or Russia, for As for the East European. This commitment of the Alliance appears to increase the preventive role of the organization, increasingly called into question by the fear of its members to become the object of attacks aimed at destabilizing the system. What is looming is a global scenario, which partly follows, albeit in a more advanced location, the confrontation with the Soviet Union, and in part presents strong elements of novelty, as the commitment in the Mediterranean, which could become a global theater of conflict, for if the effects of the war in Syria were to extend even the most European of the basin could risk a dangerous involvement. The will of Washington seems to be to avoid being caught unprepared in the face of an event held remote and probably not possible, but, nonetheless potentially verifiable, especially in the mode of asymmetric conflict. To consider, then, sufficiently addresses the destabilizing effects of migration, which have very serious political consequences, capable of heavy highlight contrasts between EU members, a factor that scares considerably the White House determined to preserve the ' European Union as a whole. The controls on the Mediterranean were also designed according to the fight against illegal immigration, with the dual purpose of combating human trafficking and reduce the reasons for friction in Brussels.