Poland will stress-test its defense capabilities with a series of countrywide drills involving the government, local authorities and the military in response to the Ukraine crisis, Polish president’s chief security adviser said.
A former eastern bloc country which became a NATO member in 1999, Poland is concerned that Russia’s annexation of Crimea and support for rebels in Ukraine may be a foretaste of it reasserting itself in the rest of Eastern Europe.
Since the beginning of the crisis, Polish politicians have regularly called for increasing NATO’s military presence in the region. Poland has also speeded up its army modernization program, worth an …read more
Source: Newsweek
