NATO's new 'spearhead' force can deploy anywhere in the world within days - Polidicks

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[QUOTE=LoneWolf_Recon;45898030]This will be a great deterrence once this gains steam.[/QUOTE] Eh, no. Read anything by former intelligence officials or military officers, NATO has never been on the ball. When something happens, they'll get together, wring hands over who actually needs to contribute, spend days or weeks just pulling together logistics, and arrive at the theater too late and with too little force to accomplish anything- assuming they don't just delegate the whole affair to the US. It's a poor deterrent. What we need are NATO bases in threatened territories so that belligerents cannot invade without attacking the NATO soldiers. It worked in West Germany and it'll work again.

[QUOTE=Explosions;45899491]Can you explain to me how NATO is the aggressor in either the Ukrainian or IS conflicts? [editline]5th September 2014[/editline] Or how the creation of a new reaction force (which falls perfectly within line of the stated purpose of the alliance) is aggressive?[/QUOTE] 1) It's a reference to the Russian joke-catchphrase "Russia is never the aggressor!" 2) If the Russians started encouraging pro-CIS protestors/rioters in, say, Berlin, would you not consider them the aggressor?

I have a far better solution: Put new United States armor brigades, anti-missile groups, and all sorts of shit in Germany and Poland.

[QUOTE=JoeSkylynx;45902459]I have a far better solution: Put new United States armor brigades, anti-missile groups, and all sorts of shit in Germany and Poland.[/QUOTE] We already have a "missile shield" in Eastern Europe, which pissed off Russia to no end.

[QUOTE=Emperor Scorpious II;45902775]We already have a "missile shield" in Eastern Europe, which pissed off Russia to no end.[/QUOTE] Let's do it again, but this time actually have US Military massing up on the Russian border. It would be so much fun. Just like old times!

[QUOTE=JerryK;45900664]tom clancy is still contributing to the world[/QUOTE] tbh this sounds like the plot of a tom clancy novel "SPECIAL DIVISION OF NATO: [I]SPEARHEAD[/I], SUPER ELITE TEAM THAT CAN DEPLOY ANYWHERE WITHIN HOURS CAN EXTINGUISH ANY CONFLICT ANYWHERE BUT CAN THEY STOP THE NUUUUUUUUUKE!?"

[quote]Existing rapid reaction forces will be re-vamped. A multi-national "spearhead" force with air, sea and land elements is to be established, capable of reinforcing a Nato ally within 48 hours.[/quote] Alas, Russia's "Bellend" force can deploy in 24 hours to invade unsuspecting countries.

[QUOTE=Emperor Scorpious II;45902775]We already have a "missile shield" in Eastern Europe, which pissed off Russia to no end.[/QUOTE] "Missile shield", eh? Presumably it involves missiles designed to shoot down other missiles? Could probably use a few mounted super-lasers to zap Russian ordinance out of the sky. YAL-1 might be in the Boneyard, but we still have the technology, we could build more super-lasers with the improved tech that's been developed in recent years, like AGIL and EOIL. Lasers only really need energy, so in the long run it's probably not as expensive to keep a super-laser maintained than to crank out tons of missiles, though swarms of missiles are also neat.

That is an awesome article image. France, modernized Europe, and the US, but subtly.

I mean it's always good to have even more flexible quick response forces, but can't the US already get one of our carriers more or less anywhere/in range of anywhere in the world in like 24 hours? Seems like a strange thing to try and specialize on considering we can already do it quicker with one of our carrier strike groups?

[QUOTE=catbarf;45902416]Eh, no. Read anything by former intelligence officials or military officers, NATO has never been on the ball. When something happens, they'll get together, wring hands over who actually needs to contribute, spend days or weeks just pulling together logistics, and arrive at the theater too late and with too little force to accomplish anything- assuming they don't just delegate the whole affair to the US. It's a poor deterrent. What we need are NATO bases in threatened territories so that belligerents cannot invade without attacking the NATO soldiers. It worked in West Germany and it'll work again.[/QUOTE] The idea was that this force would be deployed simply at the command of a NATO general - no wringing of hands will take place here. When they need troops to back up these troops, it'll probably be a different story. But really, no NATO country has ever been attacked - who's to say swift action won't be taken in that case?

[QUOTE=Winded;45898400]XCOM squad?[/QUOTE] An XCOM squad that will shoot down any vodka drinking alien if it tries to invade our territory.