Ukraine conflict: NATO discards its six-year-old tripwire defence of eastern flank for more muscle - Janes - News page
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17 June 2022
by Brooks Tigner
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg told journalists after a 15–16 June 2022 defence ministers meeting in Brussels that there will be “more scalable forward-presence troops in the east and more pre-positioned equipment, supplies, and ammunition”. (NATO)
Reacting to pressure from NATO's former Warsaw Pact members and Russia's brutal war tactics in Ukraine, the alliance is ditching its thin, so-called tripwire line of defence along its eastern flank for a military posture more redolent of decades past: more troop deployments, more pre-positioned weapons and supplies across the region, and a return to Cold War-like pre-designated areas for particular allies to defend on short notice.
More details of the new posture, and indications of which ally might do what, will be announced when NATO leaders gather for their 28–30 June summit in Madrid, although it will fall to NATO's Supreme Allied Commander Europe (SACEUR) to sort out the final details by the end of 2022, according to NATO sources.
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Reacting to pressure from NATO's former Warsaw Pact members and Russia's brutal war tactics in Ukrai...
17 June 2022
by Brooks Tigner
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