Pentagon Preparing War Plans for Baltic Battle Against Russia
Source: 21stcenturywire.com
In an exclusive report, Foreign Policy is breaking the alarming news that the Pentagon is preparing new war plans for battles with Russia in the Baltic. Plans for war with Russia were reportedly shelved after 1991, as the collapse of the Soviet Union pushed Russia into the globalized world where they had no option other than trying to make things work with the West.
Consequently those plans are having to be updated, with a senior defence official saying that “given the security environment, given the actions of Russia, it has become apparent that we need to make sure to update the plans that we have in response to any potential aggression against any NATO allies“.
David Ochmanek, former deputy assistant secretary of defense for force development, played out table top war game scenarios with U.S. army officials and Foreign Policy reports the games had ‘dispiriting’ results. NATO would be outnumbered two-to-one in the Baltic, and Ochmanek highlighted “the fact that the Russians have the world’s best surface-to-air missiles and are not afraid to use heavy artillery“.
Ochmanek concluded “that we are unable to defend the Baltics“.The central problem is that “U.S. battalions would still take anywhere from one to two months to mobilize and make it across the Atlantic“. He said “We played it 16 different times with eight different teams, always with the same conclusion”.
Moreover, Foreign Policy says the Pentagon is “chewing on various hybrid warfare scenarios, and even a nuclear one” – The sum of all fears.
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