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Originally Posted by jester
I don't have my materials handy but, the whole thing behind NATO was mutual defense, so, if the forces are engaged with any member well, then it is now engage with all. Of course if the member nations honor their comitments which history has shown many do not.
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I think the Get Out of Jail Free card for any NATO Government that did not want to fulfill its treaty obligations would be the fact that the West Germans hadn't actually been attacked - they were the aggressors (at least in V1 - I'm less familiar with the 1996 V2 timeline).