NATO should beef up its maritime arm in response to the rising threat from an increasingly “bold” and “aggressive” Russia, commanders said on Wednesday.The 28-member defense alliance’s naval forces have in recent years focused on issues such as counter-terrorism and piracy, but speakers at a London conference said the group needed to prepare more to counter Russian military ambitions.”Russian international maritime presence has grown significantly in recent years, specifically since the Ukraine crisis erupted in 2014,” senior NATO commander General Adrian Bradshaw, told a conference in London on NATO’s naval future.”The Russian Federation is shadowing and presumably collecting intelligence from …read more
Source: The Jakarta Post
