After Crimea, West plans for Russia military threat


  • World
  • Thursday, 20 Mar 2014

LONDON/BRUSSELS (Reuters) - For defence planners in Washington, London and Brussels, the sight of Russian forces pouring into their second neighbour in six years will overturn two decades of strategic assumptions.

The result of Russia's seizure of Crimea from Ukraine, following its 2008 war with Georgia, could be a modest reversal of years of European defence cuts and a bigger U.S. military presence in the NATO members of central and eastern Europe.

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