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Is NATO Ready To Defend Its Baltic Coast From Russia?
Polish and other Baltic navies need to modernize if they hope to be able to deter and defeat Russia.
Here s What You Need to Know: It s time for NATO members to shore up their navies.
Many of the newest members of the NATO alliance lack meaningful naval forces, this despite the same countries being close enough to Russia to be potential targets of Russian invasion from the sea.
That’s Thomas-Durell Young’s stark assessment in the summer 2019 edition of the U.S.
Naval War College Review.
Poland and three smaller Baltic states Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania joined NATO in the late 1990s and early 2000s, respectively. As former Soviet satellites, they lack strong naval tradition, culture and doctrine, Young wrote. “Their entire approach to naval architecture, weapons, training and even crew space is vastly different from that characteristic of Western concepts.”