NATO writes war plans against Russia for the first time since the end of the Cold War
NATO is drawing up plans on how to fight a war with Russia for the first time since the Cold War.
According to Reuters, at the next NATO summit in Vilnius in July, alliance leaders will approve thousands of pages of secret military plans detailing how to respond to a Russian attack.
The plans will be very different from those drawn up during the Cold War, as NATO went from 16 to 31 members after the dissolution of the Soviet Union and the Warsaw Pact. The documents will also outline how NATO members are to upgrade their forces and logistics.
“The Allies will know exactly what forces and capabilities are needed, including where, what and how to deploy,” NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said of the war plans.
As Reuters writes, “ the move represents a fundamental change: NATO has not seen the need to draw up large-scale defense plans for decades, having fought smaller wars in Afghanistan and Iraq and felt that post-Soviet Russia would not posed more of an existential threat."
But the fact remains that “deficiencies in the Alliance's ability to produce sufficient weapons and ammunition have been exposed by the struggle to keep pace with Ukraine's demands, and NATO must also upgrade the long-neglected logistics needed to deploy troops rapidly by rail or road.”
New NATO member Finland shares a border of more than 800 miles with Russia and is set to sign a deal that will give US troops access to its territory. As the Alliance prepares to strengthen its presence on the "eastern flank", a NATO official has acknowledged the danger of massing troops near the border with Russia.
“The more troops mass at the border, it's like having a hammer. At some point, you want to find a nail,” said Lieutenant General Hubert Cottereau, deputy chief of staff at NATO's Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe.
“If the Russians amass troops at the border, it will make us nervous, if we amass troops at the border, it will make them nervous.”
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