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Because there's very few "NATO troops", most of the time NATO serves as unified command and coordination structure, but there are very few "NATO" troops - just
by p_l 5y ago
Because there's very few "NATO troops", most of the time NATO serves as unified command and coordination structure, but there are very few "NATO" troops - just missions sent by different countries.
This would be an agreement between Latvia and USA that might at most use NATO structures to organize.
- EE84M3i 5y agoWho are those "very few"? I'd be interested to read about it
- jupp0r 5y agoThere is the NATO response force: https://www.nato.int/cps/en/natolive/topics_49755.htm https://www.nato.int/cps/en/natolive/topics_49755.htm
- p_l 5y agoAn example of those very few would be NATO Airborne Early Warning & Control Force, main base located in Geilenkirchen, which is permanent organisation with multinational personnel operating IIRC ~13 Boeing E-3A sentry aircraft. Most other cases involve complete national units that are on permanent or temporary basis assigned abroad to another base, and some of them are also put under aegis of NATO operation, for example "Baltic Air Policing" mission - but this example involves a squadron from a NATO member's air force being rotationally assigned to bases in Baltics in order to provide Air Defense.