nato bases in the baltics

Enhanced Forward Presence is a NATO-allied forward deployed defense and deterrence military posture in Central Europe through Poland and Northern Europe through Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania, in order to protect and reassure NATO's Central and Northern European member states on NATO's eastern flank of their security.

NATO should publicly reaffirm that the nuclear umbrella covers all of NATO, and it should consider the need for nuclear weapons in its frontline states to counter Putin's aggression. Poland, the former Warsaw Pact member that joined NATO … Following Russia's invasion of Crimea and its War in Donbass, NATO's member states agreed at the 2016 Warsaw summit to forward deploy four multinational battalion battle groups to This milestone comes after the Canadian-led battlegroup based at Camp Ādaži in Latvia became the fourth battlegroup to complete its Certification Exercise. The U.S. heightened its NATO presence to increase the strength of the Baltic Air Policing … NATO’s four multinational battlegroups in Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Poland are now fully operational. NATO countries are still seeking more support in the wake of Russia's 2014 military intervention and annexation of Crimea from Ukraine. NATO should act decisively to strengthen deterrence by building permanent bases in at least Estonia and Latvia.