NATO faces a number of practical challenges in deterring Russian aggression. But political commitment may be the most important of all. Like it or not, the threat of conventional warfare in Europe is back and generals on the continent are worried. At a meeting of the army chiefs of some forty countries at the headquarters of the US Army in Europe (USAREUR) at the end of October, one oft-repeated phrase was ‘it’s like what we were doing as lieutenants’. Most of these generals joined the military in the 1970s and 1980s so their experience as lieutenants involved camping out on …read more
Reinventing European Deterrence
