Sourced The Wall Street Journal
By Julian E. Barnes
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization brought two battle groups together Tuesday in a drill meant to demonstrate the alliance’s ability to keep open vital supply lines between Poland and Lithuania, shoring up what military planners have identified as an alliance weakness.
Allied militaries have been conducting a series of exercises in the Baltic region in recent days. The Saber Strike exercise has focused on securing the so-called Suwalki Gap, the border region between Poland and Lithuania.
Military planners believe in the event of a conflict with Russia, its forces in Kaliningrad or Belarus could threaten to cut off the Baltic States from the rest of NATO.
“We are demonstrating our capability to secure our most vulnerable point, the Suwalki Gap,” said Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaite.
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