Stortemberg said the military alliance’s army in the Baltic States and five other front-line countries would increase “to the brigade level” and double or triple to an army of 3,000 to 5,000. The alliance needs to hash the details of how to increase the number of ready units more than seven times.
I also got the attention of some members of the alliance.
When hundreds of officials, diplomats and journalists gathered in Madrid for this week’s NATO summit on Tuesday, many responded with surprise to the numbers. This is more than seven times NATO’s existing responsiveness.
However, many were confused about what the Secretary-General meant exactly.
They wondered how the numbers were calculated and what troops were involved. It was unclear if it would come with additional costs.
Although NATO members are united in wanting to deploy more weapons along the eastern side of the alliance, they agree that more troops should be on standby to move east quickly as needed. , The peculiarities of numbers still left doubts even by experts.
So far, authorities have interpreted this number as a redesignation of an existing army rather than procuring thousands of new troops.
This number comes from “the power of the various stages of preparation,” said one senior diplomat, calling it a “game changer” and returning to the approach used during the Cold War.
NATO itself warned that this plan was not intended to be fully formed at this time.
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