NATO and Eastern Europe: A Challenge for Russia?

... experience and Russia’s actions in the post-Soviet space have shaped their position as part of NATO to develop potential means of containment at the expense of expeditionary forces that could be utilized in regions far removed from Central and Eastern Europe. So what will the Very High Readiness Joint Task Force – or the “Spearhead Force”, as NATO likes to call it – look like? 25 years after the end of the Cold War we are witnessing a return to the paradigm of mutual deterrence, with no side seeming prepared to resume the work of the NATO–Russia Council. ACUS, RIAC, ALN Report “Managing Differences on European Security in 2015” The Very High Readiness Joint Task Force will involve the creation ...