Should the Falklands War have required intervention from the rest of NATO?

[they don't love you like i love you]

Argentina did in fact attack the United Kingdom after all.

[MASHED POTATOES. VOTE!]

I'm not sure about language of the treaty, but since British didn't request allies from NATO to participate, I guess not.

[SPC]

That would be awkward, albeit not unprecedented for the United States to have to fight against its own ally

[minionofmidas]

Argentina did in fact attack the United Kingdom after all.

In fact, it did nothing of the kind.

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Also, to be hyperformalistic, at the time of the Falklands War they were called the British Dependent Territories.

[Pilchard]

Probably not, as Article 6 of the North Atlantic Treaty says an attack on a member would need to be north of the Tropic of Cancer to invoke the collective self defence of Article 5.

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