{"id":5311,"date":"2015-02-05T20:01:25","date_gmt":"2015-02-06T01:01:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=5311"},"modified":"2015-02-05T20:01:25","modified_gmt":"2015-02-06T01:01:25","slug":"30000-troops-6-rapid-units-nato-increases-military-power-in-eastern-europe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=5311","title":{"rendered":"30,000 troops, 6 rapid units: NATO increases military power in Eastern Europe"},"content":{"rendered":"

30,000 troops, 6 rapid units: NATO increases military power in Eastern Europe<\/a><\/h3>\n

The NATO Response Force in Europe might increase to 30,000 troops, more than double the current 13,000, said the alliance\u2019s secretary general after a defense ministers\u2019 meeting in Brussels. Most of the troops are set to be stationed near Russia\u2019s borders.<\/p>\n

NATO’s rapid deployment forces will consist of a 5,000-strong brigade, sea and air-based elements and special task troops, said NATO\u2019s Secretary General Jens Stoltenber after meeting with the alliance\u2019s 28 defense ministers in Brussels on Thursday.<\/p>\n

Before the meeting he noted that he expected the ministers to\u00a0\u201cagree on several important elements of a package that increases our collective defense.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

The UK has already announced plans to deploy 1,000 troops and four multirole Typhoon fighter jets to join the Response Force in Eastern Europe.<\/p>\n

The spearhead of that force will be 5,000 servicemen, distributed among six compact command centers in Eastern Europe, with about only 50 officers in each.<\/p>\n

“It is a response to what we have seen from Russia over a period of time and it is in full accordance with our international obligations,”<\/em>\u00a0NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg told reporters.<\/p>\n

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30,000 troops, 6 rapid units: NATO increases military power in Eastern Europe The NATO Response Force in Europe might increase to 30,000 troops, more than double the current 13,000, said the alliance\u2019s secretary general after a defense ministers\u2019 meeting in Brussels. Most of the troops are set to be stationed near Russia\u2019s borders. NATO’s rapid […]<\/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":[95,1601,553,820],"class_list":["post-5311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-brussels","tag-eastern-europe","tag-nato","tag-uk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5311","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=5311"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5311\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5312,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5311\/revisions\/5312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}