{"id":23955,"date":"2017-05-16T09:15:19","date_gmt":"2017-05-16T14:15:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=23955"},"modified":"2017-05-16T09:15:19","modified_gmt":"2017-05-16T14:15:19","slug":"nato-builds-infrastructure-for-permanent-military-presence-near-russias-borders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=23955","title":{"rendered":"NATO Builds Infrastructure for Permanent Military Presence Near Russia\u2019s Borders"},"content":{"rendered":"
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NATO Builds Infrastructure for Permanent Military Presence Near Russia\u2019s Borders<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/header>\n

A group of about\u00a050 combat engineers based at Canadian Forces Base\u00a0Gagetown\u00a0were\u00a0deployed\u00a0to Latvia on April 29 as part of Operation Reassurance. The mission is to build a town for 500 soldiers. According to commanding officer Lt.-Col. Chris Cotton, the installation will have \u00abeverything you would expect in a small town, from its kitchen to its quarters, its electrical distribution system, water\u00a0distribution system, internet, gym facilities that would allow people to survive over the long term in Latvia\u00bb. Obviously, this is an element of vast infrastructure to provide for a long-term commitment.<\/p>\n

In early April, a US-led battle group of 1,350 soldiers for NATO\u2019s Enhanced Forward Presence in Eastern Europe arrived at its base near Orzysz in northeastern Poland. It took place just a few days after a NATO-Russia Council meeting took place on March 30. Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg called the talks with Moscow \u00abfrank\u00bb and \u00abconstructive\u00bb. Then the usual song and dance followed under the slogan of Russian threat.<\/p>\n

British RAF fighters are scheduled to be stationed to Romania this May. In March the first of 800 UK troops arrived in Estonia supported by around 300 armed vehicles. Along with French and Danish forces they\u2019ll be stationed there on what NATO leadership calls \u00abrotational basis\u00bb. In January, German and Belgian forces arrived in Lithuania near the Russian enclave of Kaliningrad.<\/p>\n

The UK leads\u00a0the Estonia Battlegroup<\/a>\u00a0while other NATO members are deploying forces to Latvia, Lithuania and Poland as part of the bloc\u2019s Enhanced Forward Presence battalion.\u00a0All in all, 4,000 NATO troops with tanks, armored vehicles, air support, and high-tech intelligence centers deployed to Poland, Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia.<\/p>\n

In accordance with the fiscal year 2017 European Reassurance Initiative\u00a0budget proposal<\/a>, the US Army is reopening or creating five equipment-storage sites in the Netherlands, Poland, Belgium and two locations in Germany.<\/p>\n

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NATO Builds Infrastructure for Permanent Military Presence Near Russia\u2019s Borders A group of about\u00a050 combat engineers based at Canadian Forces Base\u00a0Gagetown\u00a0were\u00a0deployed\u00a0to Latvia on April 29 as part of Operation Reassurance. The mission is to build a town for 500 soldiers. According to commanding officer Lt.-Col. Chris Cotton, the installation will have \u00abeverything you would expect […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[15296,281,3807,525,553,1046,694,8203,827],"class_list":["post-23955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-alex-gorka","tag-europe","tag-latvia","tag-military","tag-nato","tag-poland","tag-russia","tag-strategic-culture-foundation","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23955","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23955"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23955\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23956,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23955\/revisions\/23956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}