Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!
Posted on 10/01/2014 12:53:10 PM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
U.S. troops and tanks will deploy across the three Baltic states and Poland in the next two weeks on a mission designed to deliver an unmistakeable message of NATO resolve to Moscow.
The "Ironhorse" armored cavalry unit, with around 700 soldiers, some 20 M1A1 Abrams main battle tanks with Bradley and Stryker armored fighting vehicles, is one of the most formidable U.S. military forces to be sent onto former Soviet soil. Several of the bases and training areas it will operate from were built for the old Soviet Red Army.
The aim is to convince Moscow that - unlike in non-NATO Ukraine - any Russian interference in Lithuania, Latvia or Estonia would put it at war with the Western alliance.
All three countries were once part of the Soviet Union and analysts say Moscow would dearly like to reassert its influence there, particularly in ethnic Russian areas.
(Excerpt) Read more at reuters.com ...
All treaties with Russia are now meaningless.
Those words were heard before ... the American War of Independence.
As were these words. "Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God. I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!" -- Patrick Henry
FUVP and you McIvan!
Stay classy you Christian hypocrite.
You can’t handle the truth Russkie.
This sounds more like a scaled back REFORGER.
>>And mighty light on tanks for the Polish plains.
That’s the problem with being Polish - you’re in a country without strong natural defensible borders, astride a major E-W invasion corridor.
Well octoberfest ends the 5th of October.......:o)
Active Duty ping.
~Remember, the Soviets spent many years battling the Afghans and left in defeat.
We won in less then 2 months.~
LOL. I guess you believe the Wizard of Oz is a documentary.
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