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Russia Is Preparing a Military Response to the Expansion of NATO
Translated by Ollie Richardson for Fort Russ
12th January, 2016
Original Here
In response to the creation of the mobile forces of NATO, Russia can dispatch heavy military equipment in a Western direction.
The
beginning of 2016 marked a new escalation in military tensions near the
borders of Russia. Yesterday in Lithuania, as part of operation
"Atlantic Resolve", alongside the standard armaments, the main part of the American battalion of NATO troops from the 2nd cavalry regiment of the US army, stationed in Germany, arrived. The Northern Atlantic Alliance does not hide the fact that the military presence in the Baltic states will grow.
Yesterday
the Minister of Defence of Poland Antoni Macierewicz, on the Polish
radio station 'Maryja', once again expressed the hope that in the near
future at the NATO summit in Warsaw will overcome the "German veto" on
the formation throughout the country of permanent military bases of the
Alliance.
In
response, Russia continues to improve its forces, using the elements of
hybrid war. Moscow is worried about the bellicose attitude of Poland.
This country has already approached NATO with a request to place nuclear weapons on
its territory. According to the Deputy Minister of Defence of
Poland, Tomasz Siemoniak, the Alliance has a program in which NATO
members can have nuclear weapons in the country-ally. This is highly
likely, and not only in Poland or Lithuania, but also in other countries
of Eastern Europe. This unequivocally was made clear recently by the
Supreme commander of the allied NATO forces, General of the U.S. air
force, Philip Breedlove. He said that, in regards to Russia, it is time
for "tough measures". Rigidity must manifest itself in the sending of
American troops to Europe and "high-quality" training of the armed
forces of the United States for a possible fight with a "former enemy in
the cold war".
Operation
"Atlantic Resolve" began in the spring of 2014, i.e. from the time that
Crimea became a part of Russia. In Lithuania and other Baltic States
leaders then claimed that a similar thing could happen to them, and
appealed for help to NATO. Since then, the soldiers of the Pentagon are
on a rotating basis, ever present in the region. According to open
sources, rotational troops deployed in Rukla (Kaunas district) consist
of a mixed mechanized infantry battalion "Iron wolf". Here, on the 14th
of January, there will be a delivery of military equipment, including
armored Stryker, armored SUVs and trucks. Basically it is a wheeled
machine, equipped with automatic grenade launchers, heavy machine guns,
and means of concealment.
In
fact, the Americans have a unit in Lithuania for action in a local
armed conflict. But there is already a concentration of offensive
weapons. According to open data, NATO, in the village Munici
of Šiauliai district, there is already heavy American military equipment
– Abrams tanks and Bradley IFV. According to the latest plans of the
Alliance, they should use units of rapid reaction forces, which are
composed of national contingents of NATO. The same equipment was placed
in Latvia and Estonia. In addition, the fleet in the Lithuanian Šiauliai
was replenished with 16 NATO fighter jets. In all Baltic States units
are placed from the American military, the function of which is to carry
out military and pre-war actions. At the borders of the Russian
Federation elements of electronic intelligence of the Alliance were
deployed. That is, the U.S. and its allies continue to build up military
strength at the borders of the Russian Federation.
The
defense Ministry of Lithuania reported that, according to the decisions
of NATO for collective defence, allies of the US will remain in
Lithuania until such a time where the situation demands security.
Judging
by the situation in Eastern Europe, their presence will be there for a
long time. The American media is now actively raising the issue of the
"Russian Bear", which is supposedly "very dangerous". They say it's time
"to stop him from hugging". This theme fits well with, according to the
Pentagon, the new national security Strategy of the Russian Federation
(NSC RF), which was signed on December 31st by President Vladimir Putin.
In the document the military activities of the USA and other NATO
countries are viewed as "a threat to the national security" of Russia.
The
previous NSS of the Russian Federation was adopted in May 2009, and it
was supposed to guide the next 10 years. But political and military
conditions have changed so a new document for the first post-Soviet
times gives a hard-hitting assessment of the U.S. and the North Atlantic
Alliance. Judging by what was said to German journalists the other day
by Putin, such a valuation has existed for a long time, but it was not
transparent, and here it was voiced. The head of Russia believes that
the main mistake of Western politicians after the collapse of the USSR
was "the development of military structures to the East" and NATO''s
desire to "reign" on the continent. That's why "now we are discussing
the crisis", said the President of the Russian Federation.
Such
conclusions are, it seems, based on facts. It is difficult to refute
what has been said at the annual meeting of the Defense Ministry last
December. The Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said that in NATO countries
bordering Russia, "During this year the aircraft contingent has
increased eight times, and the number of military personnel by 13
times". To the borders of the Russian Federation "300 tanks and Infantry Vehicles were
additionally deployed and missile defense systems by Aegis Ashore. In
varying degrees of completeness are 310 aircraft-carriers capable of
carrying about 200 U.S. nuclear bombs".
"Tanks
and 300 BMP's are a technique for a full-fledged division. And she
hosted and saw deployment in Eastern Europe in less than a year. While
aircraft capable of carrying nuclear weapons have the flight time to our
industrial areas and cities of just 5 minutes" – said military expert
Lieutenant General Yury Netkachev. "Creating tasks to further militarize
is the problem", the General says, "NATO will only exacerbate the
situation, prompting Russia to respond". What the steps will be, you do
not have to guess. Despite the severe economic crisis, Moscow made a
decision not to reduce spending on defence and security.
Sergei
Shoigu, reporting on the 11th of December 2015, to the President,
stressed that next year will see the continued "building up of combat
capabilities of the Armed forces." According to him, measures will be
taken "to strengthen military forces in the West, southwest and Arctic
strategic directions". From open sources it is known that in 2016, in
addition to Arctic areas and the strengthening of groups in the Crimea
and the Northern Caucasus, the formation and management of basic
compounds of the 1st tank army of the Western military district will be
completed. The 6th (Leningrad region) and 20th (Voronezh) combined arms
army will be strengthened by new connections. Apparently, Moscow will respond to NATO plans to establish mobile units of the Alliance on the borders of the Russian Federation .
On
January 3rd, 2016 the commander of the Airborne Troops Colonel-General
Vladimir Shamanov said that the air assault brigades and divisions
"assumed the formation of six tank divisions," as well as "units of
unmanned aerial vehicles, including shock army" and two divisions of
electronic warfare. A similar set of weapons is necessary for a hybrid
war. Their possible presence in the Airborne shows the mobile component
is being referred to. Shamanov said that the strengthening of the combat
capability of the Airborne Troops will be discussed at the board
meeting of the Ministry of Defense on January 29th.
But
it is already clear that the basis of the formation of the Russian
armed forces from the mobile forced will likely involve the airborne
troops. In the modern history of Russian, tank units were not part of
the Airborne Forces. The formation suggests that the striking power of
the airborne forces, that is mobile forces, will be strengthened.
Apparently, the possibility will be considered that tanks and other
heavy military equipment will be pre-placed in the military bases near
areas of potential conflict (as Americans did in the Baltic States).
That is, the Western and North-Western borders of the Russian Federation
or military sites in Belarus, as it is already been underway for a long
time. In the area of these bases, in the daylight, the airborne division will parachute down to perform military missions on the maintenance and development of tanks and infantry fighting vehicles for combat.
