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Title: Baltic States Defence and Security the Unhappy Reality


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Baltic States Defence and Security - the Unhappy
Reality
  • Glen Grant
  • Former Defence Attaché Helsinki, Tallinn and
    Riga,
  • And NATO liaison officer in the Balkans

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What did we expect ?
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What we got!
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But we were warned life would be rough!
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The Baltic Sea Area Reality
  • Baltic military co-operation a damp squid and
    little else.
  • Estonia militarily proud, arrogant and hopelessly
    out of touch. Still thinking in 1914.
  • Lithuania trying really hard but politically
    wants more than it can afford
  • Finland grappling with history and Tarja
    Halonen would fight if they were allowed Army
    now going stale
  • Sweden Air Force and Navy good but Army living
    in a military fantasy world untouched by reality
  • Poland perhaps the only regional military hope

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So where does this place Latvia?
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What to do?
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