Posted on 08/24/2008 8:27:07 AM PDT by Strategy
Fred Kagan, the intellectual author of the successful US "troop surge" plan in Iraq, believes Nato's presence in the Baltics must be massively strengthened to pre-empt the risk of them being invaded in the same way as Georgia.
Such measures would infuriate Moscow, which last week warned that the installation of a US missile defence shield in Poland would ignite a new "arms race" between East and West.
But Mr Kagan, an expert on the Russian military who has the ear of hawks within the US administration, said that the West needed to match words with deeds if it was to stop Russia turning into an "intolerable, aggressive imperialistic" power.
"We need to help these countries develop sophisticated air defence and anti-tank capabilities that don't pose any offensive threat to Russia, but promise the possibility of very high casualties were they to attempt what they did in Georgia," said Mr Kagan in an interview with The Sunday Telegraph.
"Nato has to make a fundamental decision here about its legal and ethical obligations, and the only way we can really fulfil them is to help these countries defend themselves in advance of an attack."
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We have to match Russian military strength one on one.
Anything less will show
America to be weak and helpless to defend the free World.
Obama talk is cheap.
We can beat them now the same way we beat them before. The only thing necessary is the will.
Russian Invasion Emboldens Missile Defense Backers
AP | Saturday, August 23, 2008
Posted on 08/23/2008 5:53:48 PM PDT by Joiseydude
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2066920/posts
Russia’s helping Iran build a nuclear arsenal:
Shadowy nuclear trail
The Washington Times | 3-29-06 | Tsotne Bakuria
Posted on 03/29/2006 11:28:32 AM PST by JZelle
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1605573/posts
Turkey’s thinking about joining NATO (for sure this time):
A Splendid Diversion
The New Media Journal | August 23, 2008 | Michael Travis
Posted on 08/23/2008 4:55:07 PM PDT by NewMediaJournal
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2066903/posts
Thanks...back to the ....modified cold war strategy....
Fred Kagan’s father, Yale professor Donald Kagan, was born in Lithuania, back when it was an independent country before WWII.
We should put thousands of short range missiles in the Baltics on Russia’s border since Putin abrogated the INF Treaty to put short range missiles in Kaliningrad.
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