One Monday afternoon in June, several hundred American, British and Polish troops parachuted into central Poland. Last month’s jump was just practice, part of an extended NATO rehearsal for a defense of northern Europe against Russia.But in a real crisis — if those soldiers were called to defend the Baltic states — they could be dropping into a death trap.The mile-long drop zone in north-central Poland was just 180 miles from the major Russian military base at Kaliningrad, well within range of Russian missiles designed to shoot down aircraft like the lumbering C-17s that slowed to drop the paratroopers. Once …read more
Source: The Huffington Post
