Propaganda BS: U.S. to Counter Putin by Sending Europe More Tanks, Helicopters
- More war propaganda BS for the benefit of the Illuminist Military Industrial Complex(MIC). The sheeple are being raped financially via all these false, made up threats.
– - U.S. to Counter Putin by Sending Europe More Tanks, Copters
by Anthony Capaccio, http://www.bloomberg.com/ , 10 March 2016
* Army is taking `lessons learned from Ukraine,’ general says* European Reassurance Initiative includes cyberwarfare training
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The U.S. Army plans to bolster its presence in Europe next year with the long-term deployment of its best armor, tank-killing helicopters and infantry vehicles capable of destroying Russian armored personnel carriers.
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The service will increase the prepositioning of combat equipment that soldiers surging from the U.S. could use in a crisis, as the U.S. and NATO work to deter an assertive Russia in the aftermath of President Vladimir Putin’s intervention in Ukraine, according to Army officials and documents. The service also has been retooling its training forces to role-play as Russian troops employing tactics they might use in assaults against Ukraine’s military, including cyberwarfare.
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“We are working very hard, taking those lessons learned from Ukraine” and incorporating them at the Joint Multinational Readiness Center in Hohenfels, Germany, Lieutenant General Ben Hodges, commanding general of the U.S. Army in Europe, said in an interview with a small group of reporters.
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The return to Europe of Army equipment that was pared after the Cold War is part of the Defense Department’s European Reassurance Initiative. President Barack Obama is seeking $3.4 billion for the program in his proposed fiscal 2017 budget, four times the funding this year. The budget says the goal is “to increase security and reassure our NATO allies and partner states in Europe” in response to “increasing attempts by the Russian Federation to constrain the foreign and domestic policy choices of neighboring countries.”
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