Stories Related to Nato Ministers Meeting To Improve Command, Deployment Of Forces

BRUSSELS – Wary of a belligerent and unpredictable Russia, NATO is expanding its operations for the first time since the end of the Cold War and drawing up plans to improve the way the military alliance commands and deploys its forces. NATO defense ministers were set Wednesday to endorse a scheme to create two new commands: one to protect sea lanes ferrying troops and equipment across the Atlantic from the United States, the other a logistics command to supervise troop movements in Europe. “We need a command structure which can make sure that we have the right forces, in the right place, with the right equipment at the right time,” NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg told reporters Wednesday before chairing the meeting in Brussels. He said the move will boost military mobility, provide better protection for sea lanes in the Atlantic and improve awareness among the 29 NATO nations of security threats in the Euro-Atlantic area. At the end of the Cold War almost 30 years ago, around 22,000 personnel were working at 33 commands, but numbers have been slashed to fewer than 7,000 people and seven commands. “We reduced the command structure at the end of the Cold War because tensions went down,” Stoltenberg said.

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