The Chairman of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Military Committee, Rob Bauer, admitted that it will take a considerable number of years for all the new defense and deterrence plans that Alliance leaders have put into practice.
The NATO representative alluded to the plans that the member countries of the treaty are about to approve at the next summit, which will take place in the capital of Vilnius, in Lithuania. Even so, he stressed that the plans would make it possible to respond now, right now, to a hypothetical attack against NATO.
NATO already has other defense and deterrence plans, which were activated on February 24, 2022, when the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine took place. Also, regardless of the fact that the allies have to give the green light to the new plans for any attack.
Those plans are still in place today and allow the Supreme Alliance Commander in Europe (SACEUR), US General Christopher Cavoli, to have more capabilities, including 40,000 troops under his command, backed by planes and ships.
“After Vilnius, the real work begins, because in Vilnius the leaders will agree on those plans, the force structure and the command and control arrangements. Then it’s about the ability to execute them,” Bauer said at a press conference about the new plans.
The new regional plans will depend on the three allied headquarters of Norfolk, in the United States, Brunssum, the Netherlands, and Naples, in Italy, which geographically distribute the defense of the entire Alliance. “Those plans, in more and more detail, spell out what you need to do given the geography of those regions to deter and defend against threats,” Bauer stated.
With information from EFE
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