18 April 2022

Designing New Battlegroups: Advice for NATO Planners

Sean Monaghan

“If Kremlin’s aim is to have less NATO on Russia’s borders, it will only get more NATO.” As NATO’s secretary general Jens Stoltenberg points out, one consequence of Russia’s war of aggression in Ukraine is now clear: President Putin will end up with more NATO on his borders, not less. It looks increasingly likely that both Finland and Sweden will join NATO soon—possibly before the alliance’s critical Madrid summit in June. More immediately, the quantity of NATO’s forces deployed on its eastern flank is multiplying rapidly.

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