If the USA were to withdraw from NATO, there are two main factors that would be missing. The first and most important is the ability to command and control, because you have to know how to make war and Europe doesn’t know how to make it. The second is intelligence, because not having an effective one would mean having a blind instrument”. Thus General Leonardo Tricarico, former Chief of Staff of the Air Force.
“Italy has always been a NATO partner and perhaps one of the most capable, which has never shied away from both the US and NATO’s calls. In any case our country would no longer be exposed – adds Tricarico -. The system would however acquire an overall fragility that was unacceptable at the beginning, which would have to be replaced with a progressive strengthening over time, but this will not happen overnight. I hope that the United States does not leave the Alliance, but if it had to happening is not the end of the world and there would however be a period of readjustment of capabilities: not short, not simple, but feasible”.