At NATO’s summit in Warsaw this week, the Alliance is expected to approve a plan to rotationally deploy as many as four battalions—roughly 4,000 troops—on the territory of the Baltic States and Poland in what it calls a new “persistent presence.” This represents a significant qualitative improvement in the reassurance and deterrence steps that the Alliance has taken since Russia’s illegal annexation of Crimea in March of 2014 and its invasion of the Donbas, but it risks spurring a burgeoning security dilemma in northeastern Europe. Indeed, within days of the Alliance’s acknowledgement that it would build this persistent presence, Moscow …read more
Source: Atlantic Council
