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Strategic Depth and Forward Resilience in Eastern Europe

Nov 18, 2025
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EU warms to boosting defense funding to secure eastern flank – POLITICO

Today, NATO is fundamentally overhauling its Eastern Flank posture – moving from a reactive strategy of reinforcement after an attack towards a proactive posture of forward defence designed to prevent any incursion at all. This shift is rooted in hard lessons from recent history. Russia’s annexation of Crimea in 2014 and its full-scale invasion of Ukrai…

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