| | | NATO preparing troop plans for potential Russia conflict – Telegraph
Men and weaponry may have to deployed across Western Europe, a senior general has claimed
NATO is working on plans to rush tens of thousands of US troops along “land corridors” in Western Europe in the event of war with Russia, a senior strategist has told The Telegraph.
Last year, members of the US-led military bloc agreed to keep 300,000 troops ready for deployment, purportedly in response to a potential Russian attack. However, training exercises have exposed red tape and infrastructure bottlenecks that prevent the rapid transfer of personnel and materiel across the continent.
NATO military leadership is therefore working to ensure that the flow of troops would not be stopped by likely Russian strikes on ports used by the US military to unload its cargos, The Telegraph reported on Tuesday...
A direct conflict with NATO would be an existential threat to Russia, according to Moscow, considering the bloc’s superiority in conventional forces. Consequently, any such clash would warrant the deployment of nuclear weapons under Russian nuclear doctrine, it has warned.
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