{"id":31262,"date":"2018-02-20T07:25:47","date_gmt":"2018-02-20T12:25:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=31262"},"modified":"2018-02-20T07:25:47","modified_gmt":"2018-02-20T12:25:47","slug":"dancing-to-us-tune-nato-creates-military-schengen-and-launches-iraq-mission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=31262","title":{"rendered":"Dancing to US Tune: NATO Creates Military Schengen and Launches Iraq Mission"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Dancing to US Tune: NATO Creates Military Schengen and Launches Iraq Mission<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/header>\n

The NATO defense chiefs\u2019\u00a0meeting<\/a>\u00a0on February 14-15 was mainly devoted to sharing the defense burden and other issues routinely discussed at any event. As usual, there were turgid speeches with opaque meaning to leave one guessing what\u2019s really behind those nice words. In fact, the alliance took two far-going decisions proving a clue to its plans for near future.<\/p>\n

The ministers said yes to the creation of military Schengen to ease forces movements across the Old Continent. NATO is to do away with the cumbersome and lingering bureaucratic procedures hindering transportation of troops and hardware through territories of member states. One of the solutions is a standardized form used by European allies and partner states for granting permission for movements. Germany has offered to host the command center to implement the concept of\u00a0free transit zone<\/a>\u00a0in view of its vast experience in providing logistical support.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s not red tape only. One thing leads to another. The military Schengen will inevitably result in additional expenditure to adapt the civilian infrastructure to military needs, upgrading roads, tunnels and bridges to enable hardware movements and heavy aircraft landings.<\/p>\n

The decision is taken amid\u00a0burgeoning preparations<\/a>\u00a0to boost military infrastructure near Russia\u2019s borders. The fact that by signing the 1997 NATO-Russia Founding Act the bloc pledged not to deploy \u201csubstantial\u201d ground forces on permanent basis close to Russia appears to be ignored and forgotten. With the document no longer valid, the bilateral military relationship will be deprived of any legal basis.<\/p>\n

To augment the forces in East Europe, the Black Sea, the Baltics and the\u00a0Scandinavian Peninsula\u00a0<\/a>the bloc needs\u00a0new logistic hubs<\/a>. Unobstructed large-scale transport movements become top priority for implementation of the war plans, such as concentrating combat-ready\u00a0stocks for a full US brigade<\/a>\u00a0in Poland.<\/p>\n

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Dancing to US Tune: NATO Creates Military Schengen and Launches Iraq Mission The NATO defense chiefs\u2019\u00a0meeting\u00a0on February 14-15 was mainly devoted to sharing the defense burden and other issues routinely discussed at any event. As usual, there were turgid speeches with opaque meaning to leave one guessing what\u2019s really behind those nice words. In fact, […]<\/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":[15296,442,18722,553,8203,827],"class_list":["post-31262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-alex-gorka","tag-iraq","tag-military-schengen","tag-nato","tag-strategic-culture-foundation","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31262","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=31262"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31262\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31263,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31262\/revisions\/31263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}