NATO defense ministers met at the organization’s headquarters in Brussels on February 5, 2015. (Reuters/Francois Lenoir)
Brussels, Reuters—NATO defense ministers met on Thursday to sign off on a network of command centers in eastern Europe to rapidly reinforce the region in the event of any threat from Russia, as well as a new regional headquarters and a bigger rapid reaction force.
They were expected to agree to more than double the size of NATO’s existing rapid reaction force—to 30,000 soldiers from 13,000—and to flesh out details of a 5,000-strong “spearhead” force with a faster reaction time of only a few days.
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Source: ASHARQ AL-AWSAT
