NATO, while formidable on paper, is now worthless. It’s 3 am. Russian paratroopers just landed at the airports of three Baltic nations. President Obama received his phone call, what would he do next?
NATO is formidable and Russia is no match for it.
If we came under attack we have “The NATO Response Force (NRF) is a highly ready and technologically advanced multinational force made up of land, air, maritime and Special Operations Forces (SOF) components that the Alliance can deploy quickly, wherever needed.”
And now the “In light of the changing security environment to the east and south of the Alliance’s borders, NATO Defence Ministers decided on 5 February 2015 to enhance the NRF by creating a “spearhead force” within it. Known as a Very High Readiness Joint Task Force (VJTF), it will be able to deploy at very short notice, particularly on the periphery of NATO’s territory. The VJTF consists of a land component of around 5,000 troops with appropriate air, maritime and SOF units available.”
Altogether we have about a 30,000 man quick reaction force and the local military forces, and then masses of hell to follow them.
Russia is no match for what the United States and it’s 27 NATO allies can bring to defend our soil against his invading Army of largely poorly trained, poorly equipped, 1 year draftees, and that some experts think is as little as 250,000 men.