Today, the Center for European Policy (CEPA) releases its latest analytical report: “Securing The Suwałki Corridor: Strategy, Statecraft, Deterrence, as well as Defense.” Conducted nether the auspices of CEPA Pershing Chair inward Strategic Studies LTG (Ret.) Ben Hodges, the written report offers the well-nigh comprehensive analysis withal published on the Suwałki Corridor problem-set as well as presents actionable recommendations for both transatlantic policymakers as well as frontline practitioners. The Suwałki Corridor, a 65-kilometer broad stretch of province betwixt Republic of Belarus as well as Kaliningrad, is around of the well-nigh of import territory inside NATO’s borders. It is NATO’s physical link betwixt the Baltic littoral to the due north as well as the European patently to the south, containing alone ii narrow highways as well as 1 railway line. If Russian forces e'er threatened the gratuitous elbow grease of NATO personnel as well as equipment through it, province reinforcement of the Baltic States would live on exceptionally difficult, as well as NATO’s credibility equally a safety guarantor could live on seriously undermined. How should NATO defend it?
Drawing on extensive research, site visits, as well as roundtable discussions amongst senior experts from the United States as well as Europe, the written report breaks novel soil inward assessing Suwałki equally both an immediate safety challenge as well as a greater strategic challenge for NATO’s Eastern Flank. It analyzes Moscow’s potential strategies as well as capabilities, Suwałki’s history as well as terrain, NATO’s forcefulness posture, as well as the political as well as military machine environs surrounding the region. Among the inwardness findings: inward club to improve deter Russia, NATO must live on able to to a greater extent than chop-chop recognize threats, increase its speed of decision-making, as well as accelerate the elbow grease of reinforcements across operational lines as well as national borders.
Co-authored past times CEPA's Pershing Chair inward Strategic Studies LTG (Ret.) Ben Hodges, Senior Fellow Janusz Bugajski, as well as PresidentPeter B. Doran, this written report features actionable recommendations for leaders inward Washington as well as Europe—in club to secure the Suwałki Corridor as well as beyond.
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