Putin’s NATO Nightmare: 300,000 Strong Rapid Reaction Force Is Aimed At Russia
ByPeter SuciuPublished46 mins ago
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NATO’s rapid reaction force is getting supersized. The international military alliance, which was created during the Cold War to counter Soviet aggression in Europe, announced on Monday that it will increase the strength of the NATO rapid reaction force that can deploy quickly when needed. The increase will be nearly eightfold from 40,000 soldiers to 300,000 strong. The move is a response to an “era of strategic competition,” said NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg, who added it is part of the “biggest overhaul of collective defense and deterrence since the Cold War.”
The increase follows a direct threat from Russia to European security, and NATO’s new military blueprint is meant to “drastically upgrade” its eastern defenses. This will include increasing several NATO battlegrounds in the region to brigade level – tactical units of several thousand troops. There are now multinational battlegroups active in a number of nations on Russia’s border, including Latvia, Estonia, Lithuania, and Poland – while there are plans to deploy additional battlegroups in Bulgaria, Hungary, Romania, and Slovakia.
https://www.19fortyfive.com/2022/07/putins-nato-nightmare-300000-strong-rapid-reaction-force-is-aimed-at-russia/
