"All Not Quiet on NATO's Eastern Front" Topic
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Tango01 | 28 Jun 2016 10:11 p.m. PST |
"The last NATO summit, in Wales in 2014, was defined by the recognition that with Russia having just seized Crimea and expanded war into Ukraine, the post–Cold War security regime in Europe was effectively being dismantled. Moscow was redrawing borders in Eastern Europe while accelerating its military modernization and pushing for a sphere of privileged interest along its periphery. Since then, the Baltic states, Poland, and Romania have called for NATO to return the alliance to its traditional collective territorial defense function, asking that permanent U.S. bases be established on their territories as a means to strengthen deterrence. As NATO leaders prepare to meet in Warsaw on July 8–9, the deep security concerns of the states along the frontier remain. That is despite the fact that in the past two years the alliance has taken steps to begin addressing the deepening NATO-Russia military imbalance along the Eastern frontier, albeit short of the request for the permanent stationing of U.S. troops. The persistent sense of insecurity in the region has been fed by Russia's continued military buildup—it is midway through a ten-year $700 USD billion modernization program. In the process, Russia has created an effective anti-access and area-denial (A2/AD) bubble over the Baltic and Black Seas, forcing the larger question of what capabilities NATO must have available if deterrence is to be credible, including the need for a new NATO maritime strategy. This is felt acutely in Poland, the Baltic states, and Romania, where the recent memory of Russian (Soviet) domination remains the immediate reference point for thinking about collective defense, generating persistent calls for a strategic adaptation of the alliance…" Full text here link Amicalement Armand |
piper909 | 29 Jun 2016 9:39 p.m. PST |
Geez, deterrence? Whose armies are on whose borders? I don't see any Russian troops in Canada or Mexico. |
Mako11 | 30 Jun 2016 9:35 a.m. PST |
Of course not. They're holding down Crimea, and Eastern Ukraine. |
Tango01 | 30 Jun 2016 12:26 p.m. PST |
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