Decisions will be made at the landmark summit of the 30-member NATO alliance in Madrid on Tuesday and Wednesday, which takes place in the shadow of Russia’s war in Ukraine.
NATO is doubling the number of its forces on high alert from 40,000 to over 300,000 soldiers, in the context of the revision of the greatest doctrine of defense of the alliance since the Cold War
NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg also confirmed that the Allies would support the deployment of troops in NATO countries closer to Russia.
Decisions will be made at the landmark summit of the 30-member NATO alliance in Madrid on Tuesday and Wednesday, which takes place in the shadow of Russia’s war in Ukraine.
“We will transform NATO reaction force and increase the number of high-level forces in far above from 300,000 “Stoltenberg stated characteristically.
NATO’s rapid reaction force is currently around 40,000 military personnel of all corps. Sky News revealed last week that it would increase significantly, with two military sources initially saying it would be six times higher. The name will also be changed to “Allied Reaction Force”, according to Sky News.
At the Madrid summit, NATO will also change its phraseology for Russia, which has been a strategic partner of the alliance since 2010.
“It will not be characterized as such in the strategy we will agree on in Madrid,” Stoltenberg clarified.
“I expect the allies to make it clear that Russia poses an immediate threat for our security, for our values, for the rule-based international order “, he added.
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