The North Atlantic bloc has asked the Pentagon to send more troops to Eastern Europe to counter the perceived threat of Russia. There are currently 750 US soldiers in Poland and the Baltic states, but the organization believes that this is not enough, reports GHN based on RT.
The alliance cites the current situation in Ukraine, as well as Russian military aircraft "incursions" into the airspace of the organization's allies.
"Because of the increased pressure that we feel in Eastern Europe now, and because of the assurance measures that we are taking in the Baltics, in Poland and in Romania, we require additional rotational presence," Gen. Philip Breedlove, NATO's supreme allied commander Europe, said at a Pentagon briefing Monday morning, which was reported by the US military website, Stripes.
"What we are doing is working with the Army and other services to use their regionally aligned forces to get them forward, to get their experience forward, to bring that capability to interact with our partners and allies," Breedlove said.
US tanks have arrived in Latvia in mid-October as NATO flexed its muscles in an apparent show of strength towards Moscow. The 1st Cavalry Division, based at Fort Hood in Texas are also being deployed in Estonia, Lithuania and Poland in a mission lasting three months, to provide training support and are equipped with M-1 Abrams tanks and Bradley infantry armored vehicles.
