NATO hasn’t committed to the level of permanent on-the-ground troops that some nations wanted. And military mobility remains a problem.
Discussion of the proposed new force structure — including which troops would be preassigned to protect which countries and what level of readiness they would need to maintain — is on the agenda for the NATO leaders’ summit in Vilnius, the Lithuanian capital, next month.Officials overseeing the recent exercises in Estonia said training together is important, but further readiness is contingent on knowing which troops would actually be deployed to protect them in a crisis.
Estonian officials are also looking for specific guarantees that the multinational battle group based here will stick around. “I think Russia is on a trajectory to conflict or to war with NATO,” Gen. Karel Rehka, chief of the general staff of the Czech Republic, said in an interview in Tallinn, the Estonian capital. “That doesn’t mean they’re planning to do it. NATO doesn’t want to go to war with Russia, just as Russia doesn’t want to go to war with NATO. But that doesn’t mean it cannot happen. There’ve been many wars that no one really planned to have.
There is diplomatic work to be done, too. Hodges sees a need for something like a “military Schengen zone” — like Europe’s borderless travel and trade zone — that would allow NATO military convoys to “cross borders with the same ease as truckloads of apples.”
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