US troops and tanks began streaming into Poland yesterday as part of one of the largest deployments of US forces in Europe since the Cold War, an operation that Russia angrily branded a “threat”.The Atlantic Resolve mission will see more than 3,000 American soldiers and heavy equipment deployed in Poland and nearby North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (Nato) partners Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Bulgaria and Hungary on a rotational basis.The outgoing US administration of President Barack Obama ordered the deployment of an armoured brigade to the region after 2014 to reassure eastern allies after Russia’s annexation of Crimea from Ukraine.The operation …read more
Source: Gulf times
