Congress wants the Army to determine where it should maintain pre-positioned stocks to resist any Russian aggression in the West after the Winter War of 2022 finally ends. An author wants the end-of-war scenario to decide the question. I think Poland is the site regardless of the outcome.
The Army must decide where to put pre-positioned stocks in Europe:
Army Prepositioned Stocks (APS) serve as a tool for operational reach, reducing the time between strategic decisions and ground combat power in the European theater. Their value depends entirely on what Russia does after Ukraine and what EUCOM needs to answer it. Geography-first framing skips that step.
I think the Black Sea is a cauldron of death for Russian power projection across the seas that distracts NATO from the main front of the Baltic States and Poland regardless of the scenario. And Russia's Kaliningrad is the obvious first offensive mission for NATO regardless of where Russia strikes.
Therefore, Poland remains the place for Army stocks, as I have argued since Russia invaded Georgia in 2008.
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