NATO is still trying to establish logistics links to its front line facing Russia. Bureaucrats and their all-powerful rules are more dangerous than Russian drones and missiles.
Obtaining approval to cross neighboring countries by military convoy today takes much longer than a European Union target of five days – “more like tens of days,” said Brig. Gen. Fabrice Feola, who commands France’s Centre for Operations and Transport Support, in a briefing here on Thursday. ...
The EU has vowed to address the bloc’s remaining barriers to military mobility in a regulatory proposal this year. ...
Europe’s overground transportation network needs to mapped out better “on order to return to what we had during the Cold War,” with no doubts or ambiguity about the capability of roads and railways to handle large flows, according to the general.
Every bit of logistics progress--and EU efforts predate the Winter War of 2022--seems to be stymied by bureaucrats. That the EU's bureaucrats are in charge of fixing this for NATO is no comfort. The whole thing is just unreal given that war rages just beyond NATO's borders.
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