The American military is going to deploy rotations of US-based armored brigade combat teams and new equipment on NATO’s eastern borders in response to an “aggressive Russia.”A brigade’s worth of soldiers around 4,500 soldiers each will be on nine-month rotations in the region starting in February 2017 the first such deployment since the end of the Cold War.They will conduct military exercises across Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, Bulgaria, and Hungary, according to a statement from US European Command.A host of new heavy equipment including 250 tanks, Bradley Fighting Vehicles, Paladin self-propelled howitzers, and more than 1,700 …read more
Source: VICE News
