As troops from 24 nations convened last month in Poland for exercise Anakonda, some European countries successfully worked behind the scenes to soften the symbolism of ground troops maneuvering so closely to Moscow’s backyard.
NATO leaders agreed to deploy four multinational battalions to Poland and the three Baltic States in a bid to show the alliance’s readiness to contain an increasingly bellicose Russia.
NATO leaders will approve rotating four battalions through Poland, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, up to 4,000 troops in all, as a collective tripwire against fresh Russian adventurism in its old stomping ground.
Finland’s long-term interests would be better served by deepening its defense relationship with Russia rather than aligning itself militarily to NATO, Russian president Vladimir Putin said during a heads-of-state summit meeting in Finland.
The NATO summit takes places at a time when a number of Eastern European allies are calling on the alliance to reinforce its presence in the region due to their concern over an increasingly belligerent Russia.
Poland’s Ministry of Defense has signed a contract for the deployment of non-kinetic countermeasures against unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) during the upcoming NATO summit in Warsaw.
As European leaders met Monday, six key US senators wrote to pin a letter to European Council President Donald Tusk Monday pressed the European Council to continue sanctions on Russia to force Moscow to adhere to the Minsk ceasefire deal
Lockheed Martin has restarted production lines for its highly mobile artillery rocket launcher at a time when the US Army in Europe has no dedicated rocket launchers.
NATO will deploy four international battalions to Poland and the three Baltic states as part of the wider push back against Russia's intervention in Ukraine.