At the end of September, Russia once again, for the 90th time in 25 years, staged a nuclear bluff. Of course, there will be no nuclear strike, not even a tactical one. Therefore, unlike in previous years, the free world and NATO are now responding with new sanctions and strengthening their defense capabilities.
The 42nd German Panzer Brigade is being prepared, with a deadline of 2025: two battalions of grenadiers and tankers from Westphalia will be deployed in a brigade on Leopard 2. Naturally, it will be based in the Baltic States.
In addition, the MGM-140 ATACMS will be replaced with a PrSM (short-range ballistic missile, up to 500 km) – the 56th Artillery Command in Germany, which was disbanded in 1991, was restored for this purpose. They were the ones who dealt with missiles (including medium-range ones) during the Cold War.
The Canadian tank brigade in Lithuania, with a deadline of 2025, has invested 15 million in infrastructure as part of Operation Reassurance, the deployment of a squadron to a brigade on Leo 2 (long-term deployment).
The Poles are preparing the fifth division (1st Infantry Legion Division) and have announced that they are forming the sixth (8th Infantry Division). This includes at least two armored, four mechanized and two artillery brigades, and also two anti-aircraft regiments. They will be deployed in Nove Miasto nad Pilicou, in the operational zone against Belarus and the direction of Ukraine.
Finland will host NATO’s Joint Command, responsible for the troops of Norway, Sweden, and Finland in operations to deter a possible enemy, including those beyond the Arctic Circle.
The Swedish army has four armored regiments that will be deployed to a brigade in the event of war, while the Finns have a tank brigade.
The U.S. garrison in Poland has a new base in Powidzie, where 80 Abrams are stored with the task of deploying an additional tank brigade within 48 hours and conducting coordination in a week. The rotational tank division in Boleslawiec, with two tank brigades, has not disappeared either.
4000+ Generation 4+ aircraft in Europe alone and several hundred active F-35s from Britain and Italy to the United States.
The United States is deploying ground-based Tomahawks in Germany, as it did during the Cold War, from Berlin to Moscow.
Of course, the rearmament for hypersonics, the United States has ordered an additional battery of LRHW Dark Eagle (hypersonic surface-to-surface missile, range – more than 3700 km). In the future, the US Armed Forces will receive 3,800 short-range missiles and send them to allies.
Let’s not forget the US missile defense on the eastern flank – Romania (Deveselu base), Poland (Redzikowo base), and the Aegis system on US destroyers. There are dozens of kinetic interceptors in a salvo capable of shooting down medium-range ballistics. The air defense systems being deployed in the Baltic states and an additional division in Poland – in their latest iteration, they also work as ground-to-ground.
In general, there is a reaction, and it is the same as during the Cold War: nuclear deterrence, precision weapons, modern aviation, and new tank units (many of them).
It is precisely such preparations and active support of Ukraine with the authorization to use long-range precision weapons on the territory of the Russian Federation that will be able to stop the aggression of the new “axis of evil” Russia-Iran-North Korea-China.
