The move would add to a wider revamp of Nato’s defence posture in the east. Read more at straitstimes.com.
MUNICH - Germany is preparing to station a permanent brigade of about 4,000 troops in Lithuania as Nato reassesses the potential threat Russia poses to the alliance’s eastern flank.
The move would add to a wider revamp of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation’s defence posture in the east, and reflects Baltic concerns that Moscow may try to claw back the territory Estonia, Lithuania and Latvia regained after the collapse of the Soviet Union. Lithuanian President Gitanas Nauseda said the fallout, including Wagner units potentially moving into neighbouring Belarus, impacted the region’s security.Lithuania will also invest €240 million in military infrastructure and mobility through 2025 to accommodate the brigade.
And in a first since the end of the Cold War, the alliance’s leaders in July are set to agree to detailed regional plans that lay out how allies are expected to defend areas against an attack from Russia or from terrorists. As a result, some officials might conclude the rotational brigades would give them sufficient time to prepare against a possible assault, said Mr Heinrich Brauss, a senior associate fellow at the German Council on Foreign Relations and Nato’s former assistant secretary general for defence policy from 2013 to 2018.
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