Stars and Stripes
May 10, 2023
NATO’s new plans will help to better defend ‘every inch’ of allied territory, Cavoli says
U.S. European Command’s Gen. Christopher Cavoli and other top NATO defense officials met Wednesday in Brussels to fine-tune new defense plans for Europe that are expected to transform how the alliance will defend itself for years to come.
The meeting came ahead of a summit this summer in Vilnius, Lithuania, where heads of state are expected to formally approve a strategy that NATO commanders have been hammering away at since the last summit in Madrid a year earlier.
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The defense plans will call for more troops at higher levels of ready-to-deploy forces who can mobilize on short notice, military officials said.
“This change will move us from an alliance that was optimized for out-of-area contingency operations to an alliance fit for the purpose of large-scale operations to defend every inch of the alliance’s territory,” Cavoli said Wednesday….
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Cavoli, who serves in the dual-hatted role of EUCOM chief and NATO supreme allied commander in Europe, said new capability requirements are going to be spelled out for allies with unprecedented specificity.
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Anti-bellum 
NATO can`t Defend Diddly, All it`s Stockpiles are in Ukraine.
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Yet can’t manufacture enough shells for the Ukrainians to fire at 25% of Russian capacity. The bullshit is strong.
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The alliance is like a one way door. A country cannot respond to “call for troops” and “new capability requirements with unprecedented specificity” and be a sovereign country. Who makes these decisions for war? We are expected to hate the countries the media tells us to. Anytime there is a controlled a narrative I’m done listening.
What is the real reason for control of Ukraine? Just a stepping stone to control of natural resources in Asia?
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