Russia's war against Ukraine has certainly highlighted the importance of logistics to sustain a fight beyond the first week. NATO is making progress on establishing supply lines to do that.
NATO is finally making real progress on getting U.S. forces to the fight:
Nato is developing multiple 'land corridors' to rush US troops and armour to the front lines in the event of a major European ground war with Russia.
American soldiers would land at one of five ports and be channelled along pre-planned logistical routes to confront a possible attack by Moscow, officials told The Telegraph.
I noted this plan some months ago. Oddly one issue that the initial article highlights is the red tape:
In these corridors, national militaries will not be restricted by local regulations and will be free to transport consignments without normal restrictions.
Which seems ridiculous for a wartime emergency. But the bureaucrats are supreme, I guess.
Of course, logistics routes will be useful for European NATO states sending forces east.
Russia provoked the NATO effort to end the eastern Europe logistics desert.
Now all we need to do is produce the trained troops and materiel to send east down those corridors.
UPDATE: Related:
NATO members are now agreeing that peace can only be maintained if NATO members upgrade their armed forces and show Russia that NATO is not unprepared and attacking NATO, which includes the United States and Canada, would be a costly mistake and lead to failure.
UPDATE: I randomly ran across a post I looked for but failed to find that I wanted to use to highlight the bizarre red tape problem:
The European Union may reduce the red tape and infrastructure problems that would slow the movement of NATO forces from the core regions of power weighted to the west to the vulnerable states in the new NATO states in the east.
NOTE: TDR Winter War of 2022 coverage continues here.
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