The committees report said a NATO summit in Wales in September should agree plans for the positioning of equipment in the Baltic States - Estonia, Lithuania and Latvia - a continuous presence of NATO troops for training in the region and large-scale military exercises including representatives from all 28 NATO member states. NATO should also improve its existing rapid reaction force, the committee said, as well as considering establishing a standing reserve force and a headquarters focused on eastern Europe and the Baltic. The committee said the alliance also needed to be better prepared to deal with unconventional tactics, such as cyber-attacks, information warfare and irregular militia. Substantial Russian minorities and the influence of Russian media make Estonia and Latvia particularly vulnerable to the type of information warfare that the committee said had been used to incite disturbances in Ukraine. The use of asymmetric warfare tactics present a substantial challenge to a political military alliance such as NATO, the report said. These tactics are designed to test the lower limit of the alliances response threshold, are likely to involve deniable actors, and work to exploit political division.
Posted on: Thu, 31 Jul 2014 08:18:04 +0000
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