NATO Is Learning From Russian War Drills And Russian Jets Probing Western Airspace

Two Tu-95 Bear H Russian bombers were identified and intercepted by F-16s from Portugal. © Wikicommons

Russia's War Games Spill Secrets, Stiffen NATO Resolve -- Bloomberg Businessweek

Russian jets probing NATO airspace and supersized war drills are spilling Kremlin military secrets and scaring European nations into stiffening their armed forces.

The alliance said by late October it intercepted more than 100 Russian planes this year, more than three times the number in 2013. A report by the European Leadership Network, a London security research group, termed the incidents “a highly disturbing picture of violations of national airspace, emergency scrambles” and “narrowly avoided mid-air collisions.”

Yet there are benefits for the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.

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My Comment: I guess everything has a "silver-lining" .... especially on revealing secrets. As to stiffening NATO resolve .... on that I am skeptical.